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ACTION OF CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE COMMITTEEIn the last issue of the JOURNAL OPRXL we called attention to the fact thattthat Centennial the Fund as commonly spoken of had come to mean morehe more than the Permanent Fund of 250000 and embraced as well thethe extra contributions which hich it is hoped would ould be made by our peoplepeoplepeople for the maintenance and enlargement of the regular work of the BoardBoard Since that article was written the Centennial Committee has met andand taken action on the subject We Ve give below the report of that actionaction as furnished by Prof H H Harris the Secretary of the CommitteeCommittee The resolutions therein contained will ill explain themselves but we ve begbeg T to add a word of explanation concerning the appointment of Rev TTP Bell to collect the subscriptions made at Atlanta expeFrom past exileexpe rience with itlt pledges made at conventions we have learned that suchSUclsuclisucli are generally paid through the ordinary church or State treasurers lare treasurersofficers and go to the Boards through those The subscribers to thethe Centennial Fund at Atlanta so far as their names and addresses cancan be procured will be written to however and their attention called tohe to this action of the Committee Our duty will be to collect so far asas may be possible these pledges and turn the amounts overto boardover to the board tototo which they may be designated or in case there is no designation toto hoardsboardsdivide two boards dide them equally between the viIIye ask that brethren in sending the sums subscribed willwill And we very if they prefer to designate their gifts do so ex clearlyr and explicitlyplicitly RichmondThe Centennial Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention met in Richmond pros 22d and 23d and considered various matters pertaining to the progress and prosinterestpects ects of the work entrusted to their hands The following items are of some interest ccts to the publicpublic lanllanlan To meet a difficult difficulty that has arisen in several quarters growing cut of certain Ianguage cage was 1age heretofore used it wascenten Resolved That it is the sense of this Committee that the words permanent centenResohed ConventionConvention Baptist Southern to the nial fund of 250000 as used in our last report beibetbe were not intended to designate an endowment fund the interest of which only shall beedifice otherfund and other 1sed used ised sed but a fund for Bible translation chapel building a church his permanent work If therefore any donorof donor of a special sum shall see fit to direct that hissacredl observgift be invested and only the interest expended his wishes must be sacredly observed Jlift lift Tune fune lune
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the but without such specific directions these gifts will be turned over to the Boards for thebenefit enefit of their work nml the Boards will be authorized and expected to expend the saidsaid funds as occasion may requite in work theilork of a permanent character connected with theirtheir missionary operationsoperations In response to a communication from the Foreign Board setting forth the fact that a-aaJarg an that if itlarge part of the money now coming in is sent for the Centennial fund and it should be all held for permanent vork the Board would be greatly embarrassed forfor means even to support missionaries now on the field and utterly unable to send scn outout wasothers it waswas Resolved Resolcd That this Centennial Committee respectfully recommend to the Boards toto use all proper methods by circulars by instruction to their agents and by use of theirtheir own publications and the denominational papers generally to make clear to all ourour brethren that Centennial contributions may be either for the support and enlargementenlargement of the present work of the Boards or for the fund for permanent work at the option ofof the donors and that it is understood that only those contributions specifically desigdesig fundnated for the latter fund will be put to the credit of that fuudfund Several Seeral papers for publication in tract form and a programme for a mass meeting inin Louisville Kentucky October 2d4th the one hundredth anniversary of the organizaorganiza 1ion tion at Kettering were considered and adoptedtion adopted Steps were taken to secure the services of several distinguished speakers for a seriesseries of meetings in a number of States immediately following the Louisville meeting andarHand Icontinuing continuing until December The details for these require much correspondence beforebefurebefore nny public announcement can be made As indicating in a general way the design ofany of these meetings it wasvaswas Resolved Rcsohed That the representatives of this Committee be hereby instructed in advoadvo adoeating the interest and claims df the Centennial to emphasize the idea of enlarged opecating ope rations as well as the raising a fund for permanent work and to strive constantly toto uplift our people to a higher plane of living for Christ and giving systematically for thethe promotion of his causecause The subscriptions taken at Atlanta during the Convention were turned over to Dr TT jjrP jrP Bell Assistant Secretary Foreign Mission Board for collection arearcThe subscribers arc earnestly requested to assist him him in this work and particularly in remitting to state ifif they desire any particular designation of their giftsgifts In view of Dr Eatons proposed absence for two months in Europe the undersignedundersigned was designated as chairman pro tern of the Committee I
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ISANOTHER TRACT FROM NORTH CHINASANOTHER ANOTHER CHINA Our North China mission has of late been prolific of letters andand tracts written against the interests of the Board from whose hose treasurytreasurtreasury treasur some of the writers riters have been and are drawing their salariessalaries The latest wec 11a YC received from there is a tract entitled have 1lissionMissionMission Facts and Figures by G P Bostick On the title page just belowbe1obe1o below the above title are these words Peruse Peruse Ponder Pray PerPer Pra form Now wee propose to examine yellwell exan1ne as wellIn the beginning of his tract brother Bostick indulges in somesome sonICfigures It is often said that figures do not lie and wee believe that isis true But it is equally true that figures may Inakemakemake lua be so used as to slakevery false impressions on the minds of readers Brother Bostick soso
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uses the figures of the Boards report for 189091 as to seem to warvarwar rant him in asserting as he does that the Board in the prosecution ofof ork entrusted to it spent fiftynine per cent of all money raised the work raisedfor foreign missions by Southern Baptists otherwise than in sending sendingout and sustaining missionaries on the fieldfield In order to arrive at his conclusion brother Bostick uses thesethese 1
figures to suit himself He says that of the whole amount reported reportedas raised 1678764 or about fifteen per cent of the whole wasvaswas used for home expenses But he does not give his readers any idea asas to the various items covered by that term home expenses thingthing00expensesaa thino hich common controversial honest which honesty should have suggested his doingdoing hen lie was using the figures for an assault on the Boards workyorkwhen work He did not tell how ho much of that was expended by State Boards inlIe in the collection of funds for our Board which expenses come toto in the treasurer form of our receipts as vouchers and not in cashcash He how much was expended in printing the information IIe did not tell ho informationabout the work that the people might know about it He justjust hun and says here is fifteen per cent used by thesweeps all into a lump secps the Board in home expenses leaving his readers to imagine what theythey pleaseplease field ere in the fieldThen he goes on to show how many missionaries were ho much these ought to have cost and then striking a balanceand how balance balancsays id cost and what he between what the work did have ebetcen it ought to haveto cost concludes that fortyfour fort rfour per cent of the entire amount sent tothe various missions is in excess of the necessities of the missionariesmissionaries Here Iferc again he uses figures to suit himself He says there were that thatreceiving supportsupport women fields and men seventytwo in year all Year home There were also a few resting at homethrough them the Board which by can I canno have regulations the Board at that time but knoy home know how ho much is spent upon such Some of them have been at homeseycra years and I suppose make their own support Among thefor several the theseventytwo in of China half five the the to who came latter sccntytVO I reckon year as on the field the whole year while I do not count two who left ho leftyear onlyBrazil in the early half of the year Ycar So the seventytwo are the only on So he fixes up his figures on01ones who can be counted as certain of 1luissionaries missionaries counting in some counting out others ignorant ofasby as the Board hether or not any in this country were being aided whether very they sought health for their return and ignoring altogether the veryyeryanheavy an labor heayy expenses of missionaries to and from their fields of laboranolaboran havehave Bostick should Bro surprised omission we are particularly that mission n1ssion fur luade for our Board has had more fault found with it about not furmade brethrennishing enough money for outgoing missionaries by the very brethren yho mission all by allChina than who are criticising the Board in the North our other missionaries put together together-
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LNext Bro Bostick undeterred by the fact that he knows nothingNext nothing fields his own condition on of things other and hasthan has about the decideshad only a very short period of observation on that calmly decides 700 to cover all living and working expenses for eachall 0 each to allow yorker MexicolexicoMexicfor Africa China in Brazil in and 800 each one Mexico Japan worker oand in eachMultiplying the number of missionaries ill and 1000 in Italy each field by what he sees fit to aHo allow to them he arrives at the conclusioconclusion needed Accordnthat missions only all Accord Accordto support our 55100 was that mis111mis ing to this reckoning the outfits and travelling expenses of the illis illisissionaries sionaries we suppose are to be provided by the ravens and the railrail missionaries road and steamboat companies and the children of the missionariesash1111asylums are to be put in orphan asylumssBut But wee get at the animus of the whole business when weC come to seesee yhat Bro Bostick objects to in our expenditures He says that wewhat weeedo not pay our missionaries such salaries as to allow al1o them to live luxlux uriously U Yhere then does the 43000 excess go veAn excess wewe say by way of parenthesis a large part of which lies only in Bro BosBos ticks figures not in fact He replies much of it goes to run schoolsschools buy lands and build schoolhouses and chapels for the natives to hirehire native nathe men and women to do religious work c XO Now it is all plainplain yorkBro Bostick has imbibed Dr Crawfords views of mission workwork which vhich have been before the Board and before the brethren ever sincesince Dr Crawfords tour through this country in 1886 and all this is toto ve ought not to help native Christians to rise above theirprove that we their errible surroundings but simply preach to them and when they bebcbe lie lieve ieve ve turn them loose to struggle unaided and alone against the fearfulieve fearful odds which surround them It is the selfsupport idea run mad AndAnd along with this Bro Bostick in this tract is urging the vic view prepre sented by Dr Crawford in his tract Churches to the Front noticednoticed in a previous issue of the JOURNAL yc noviz no we should have 11OPRXL that 0boards boards at all but individual churches or groups of churches shouldshould support their own missionaries without the intervention of boardsboards But we must desist We Ve notice only one other point in Bro BosBos ticks tract which point has been made by himself Dr Crawford andand eyery one who tries to show that our Boards work every is ork carried on onon vrong principles in that native wrong helpers are employed in sonIC missionsnathehelpers missions He quotes Dr Yates He says needsThe sainted M T Yates who needs no introduction to Southern Baptists writing at length on this specialspecial spcialevil about four or five years Years before his death calls it the rareYeatyeabane yea bat1erenbat1eren the dryrot of modern missions and in the same connection sayshe says Therefore native agency in mission work as it is now emem enlno generally eillployed in missions in China is not calculated to promote the bestploved best interest of evangelization among the Chinese And Bro Bostick
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Ve prepre preSprints Dr Yatcs article in connection with ith his own views We Bostick is ignorant of the fact that Dr Yates protested BroBostick sume protestedU1l1C that Bro sunie Dr CrayCrawngainst such use being made of his paper when hen in 1886 Craw against ford quoted it as supporting his peculiar views Certain Bos Certainly if Bro Bosususouldl1ot tick had known this he would not so have used the paper But let us DrDr history of look at the this matter to prove our assertion that MISSION 1hsSIOYates repudiated such use of his utterances In the FOREIGN MISSIONto JOURNAL XJorHL of April 1SSG the editor Prof H H Harris referring toDrDr He him plan Board by says to Dr the submitted Ir Crawfords BasC refers for support to Dr Carpenters book on Selfsupport in Bas Agencysein and to a paper by Dr Yates on Native Agency Dr Yates presented before a Conference of Protestant missionaries atat the Shanghai some years ago a pungent and able protest against themoneymoney of free use cmploYI11cIlt employment of unconsecratcd men and against the thanthanin the employment of native assistants so as to make fit rather than Dr has been reprinted at Drpaperhas the gospel the attracting power This paper VeWeVe We line lectures his of plans and in Crayfords the being Crawfords request as cer rcspectful1y respectfully submit that he had no right to make such use of it cersentenceVe sentence We quote a tainly tain none without the approval of its author asksoccupied then he asks What really Yates Dr position sho the to show ByHe answers in italics BjDispense with native agents altogether BJ consetheirconseof conse their theirconse method testing the discuss no means and proceeds to ButSBut who stand the test Butthosevho cration and tlje best plan for assisting those did sayYates Dr say vhatdid some 0111C one may say that is Dr Harris opinion what gengen ahout it Bro Bostick says These were his views then and it is genabout systemsystem holesystemholesystem ith the whole even more disgusted with hecanlceven erally known that he became crally see thethis full subject the on in his views life For as he neared the close of em So he did with the emetllBiblical Recorder of February 24th 1SS6 symployt11ent ployment of unconsccratcd men But that he was very far from sym nownovpathizing with the views of Dr Crawford as then put forth or as nov of put forth by Bro Bostick is clearly shown by the following extract ofREALREAL O OGRXAGRXAL in the JOURNALJOURNAL printed Jo a letter written by him June J uue 1st 1886 and appealDr appeal Crawfords seen Lof I have Since He 1SSG says of August effect the of theto the Convention I have been much concerned about the rulesrules Dr with connection in used Cs republication of my paper to be more under Article 5 I have discussed these peculiar views with him moreIIImissions China Central for than once and rejected them as absurd au Dr C had no auam aUI very anxious to hear from the Convention beevils to be thority to quote me as supporting his views There are prominentprominent them made abated in which wee agree but he has not Dr ho have adopted and advocate DrYce trust that the brethren who We theiras Dr their Yates Crawfords Cravfords views will henceforth cease to quote yillwilladvocate After the statement above from Dr Yates himself it will ahocate not be honest 4
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the letter of Mrs lrs Yates copied in another part of this issue ofof still on will light Ve question further this the JOURNAL We throw OURXL hopehope J ponderedin be read and pondered it will LAnd And
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lrsThe following letter from our honored and beloved missionary Mrslrs Mrs E ML Yates deserves a wider circulation than it will get even in thethcthe COhlIl1nS oc take it columns of the Biblical Recorder from which hich we Few arearcare better qualified to bear testimony concerning the conduct and methods methodsof the Board than this eminently wise woman tvoswho for twonearly two Otnan Y ates side in China an helpmeet for him inscore years stood by Dr Yates in core yiseal1 all respects and who has been spared by the Lord to give her wisewise counsel and aid to those who have taken up his work It is gratifying gratifyingto the Board at this time when so many many seem disposed to indulge inin testimonyharsh criticism of it and its methods to receive such goodly testimony recee on both these pointsDpointspoints
BAILEyInIn the Recorder of March BAILEY arch 30th there were two things thatthat gaye me great pleasure The first was gave as that you continued to improve and would soonsoon be able to take up your accustomed workwork The other tler was the answer of the Kings Mountain Association to Mrr BosticksBosticks propositionproposition I have nothing against Mr Ir Bostick but I am strongly opposed to ts the plan he propro poses because I am sure that it tends to break down all organized effort in our denomdenom I rejoice greatly in the assurance that North Carolina Baptists adhere firmly ination firmlyto uni united ted effort and have confidence in the management of the Board that there isis no disposition on the part of any of OUf Xorth Carolina churches to do Foreign Missionissionission Mission work other than through our Board at Richmond RichmondI cannot make out what our discontented missionaries have to complain of for thethe Boan has been exceedingly kind to all whom the churches have placed under its careBoard Boan care and direction If I were to find fault it would have to be that it is too indulgentindulgent al10ws allows its missionaries to do too much as they please In looking back over the fortyforty years of my life in China I cannot recall a single word or act of arbitrary control toto wards anyone any one of us Yett it has not been because provocations many and graveam grave were wantingwanting Neither Xeither am I clever enough to see seewhat advantages vantages these discontented brethren expectwhat ad expect to secure They claim that uner under their plan the home churches would know all aboutabout the work take more interest in it and send out more laborers The churches wouldwould know what their missionaries chose to tell themneither them neither more nor less Whatever theythey could do under the proposed plan the they can do under the old What hinders their givinggiving information to the churches and associations now I know that many of us do writewrite frequently we are glad to do so frequentlywe and I believe that the churches know more than theythey soand are credited with Faultfinding is a tool that never turns out good work The tooltool that we all need to handle most is described in the thirteenth chapter of I CorinthiansCorinthians I am very glad that the Bryans Br ans are to remain at their post Mrr Bryan is ven very very veryrC1Tpoorly but the fact that he is so much needed makes me hope that his health will soonsoon be restored His one fault is overwork Whatever he undertakes is done with soul DEAR DER BRO EAR
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mind hind and strength stretit th and there is so much need for work all dl around him he cannot refrainrefrain t get well but he has promised to he more careful and I am hopefullong enough to hopefu1hopeful There are many math more things I would like to talk about but dare not except face toto
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can furnish to brethren wishing yishit it Coltons New Missionary Map Iap of the World orld at a price greatly below the retail price This wevewe do by taking a number at our own expense and letting the brethrenbrethren hayc them at the price we have YC pay Hence a1 Jers must be accompaniedaccompanied Ye have nine copies on hand by cash We The following description isis a correct oneone Vee We
This new map the third publication of the kind which we have made is as much su5Usu perior rJerior to the last previous one as that was to the first In size it is about the same asPerior as It predecessors namely two hemispheres each of six feet diameter but in other respects its respectsit presents a very different appearance In this instead of being in one color simply toto give ive it a tone the land rive Religions Rcligionsin surfaces are colored to distinguish the Prevailing Religionsthus Heathen nations are of a dark gray Cathogr1 tone Mohammedan green Roman Catho lic red Greek and Eastern Churches orange Protestant yellow and these are grad gradnattd to indicate by their depth or strength the comparative density of population Alluated All these as well as the water which is of a blue are Jue tint and the purely ornamental parts areprinted in permanent oil colors and as a whole the map presents a marked beauty andand hnish in its appearance never before attained by any other map of its kindfinish kind The upper corners are utilized by being filled with appropriate texts The lower midmid dIe rile dle space is occupied by a striking diagram showing by figures areas and colors thethe comparative omparntive numbers embraced in each of the religious systems enumerated and thethe lower corners are filled with full statistical tables of population by separate countriecountries e1l as by totals carefully comp1ied from the latest official authoritieass well ss authorities
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P A Eubank of our African Mission hashas or asked to be allowed to retire from the work in Africa for a year orhasbeen tyO has Brother Eubank request has his granted two at least and been driven to this action by the claim of his child upon its parentsparents homeWhite hitc children cannot be raised in Africa and to leave them at home brother at certain ages is an experiment not always successful and brotherseyera years now no feels it his duty toto Eubank having tried this for several feel We trustlike blaming him trust take another course No parent will i11 returnhis ycar to clear return see he vav way will two of in year or that the course a sincere to Africa The Board parts with him even temporarily with sincereregretsregrets vorkwork Rc J A Brunsonof Rev Brunson of our Japan Mission also retires from the workmental1mental Brother Brunson after a longprotracted and severe struggle mentalw
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in spiritual 1W8 been led to conclude that he luade a 11listake infeeling raS called of God to he a tuissionary and so feelinthinking that he was hayc Quld COll1CSOUt liiln lie conies out like a niangthat hiluhe the Lord would Ulanhercthe llot where Ulan that he isSnot exBrunson done be ex one Brother has released says so and asks to nd and that celient York in Japan as one of our tyO pioneer n1ssionaries in thatyas ye sent out IIe has laid goodgood en1pire and we cannot regret that he empire in is he symhcartiest He Board assures the that SY111 solid foundations SY1best 11pathy and accord yith it in its plans of york and prolllises his bestpathy ill reluain until reinforcereinforce efforts in behalf of that york at hOlne lIe will nccdlcs3 is Boardfield to say Board thc be sent to that that It ments nlcnts can fit 11as has neycr had any rcason to doubt brother Brunsons reluarkahle fith theas the right lnau in ill the ness for his york and YC had all felt that e was retire1feelings retiresubject on his respect IIis HlUSt the retire place VC but right ye cannot forbcar saying that the111cnt the 11cnt ment is a grief to us all Aud we letEditor and readers of the Journal viIi sadly Iniss the adnlirable let favored ored us We still r e trust she willill stillters yith yhich 11rs Brunson has fa fayor us after her returnreturn favor Land and
hoTHE who ho TilE folloying proposition has coiue to us frot11 a tuissionary whomany requests that his nanle be not l11entioned There are tuany things sugsug YC yill refrain and let thegested by it that ve feel like saying hut we the rcYC have already rerc proposition speak for itself luere1y adding that we ccivcd frol11 tyO brethren in the South China Inission the prol11se ceived of promise ofonetenth of the al110unt Vil1 our Baptists at hOlne do as Hutch asas EDPcTiftS ED E DJthe missionarics DJ missionaries in actual gifts 0A PIWPOSITIOX IWPOSITIOX PROPOSITIO-
1 propose that of the 125000 which our Foreign Iissioll Board is trying to raise raise115 a Centennial Offering the missionaries of the Boar contribute Zs 2000 That it is a-aadisproportional part considering the whole number of Baptists in the Southern Baptistllaptistllaptist Convention Conention I frankly admit But that is 110 reason against mypropositionfor my proposition for always alwaysa few informed and aroused ouls give far out of proportion to the masses and who isisDo we not owe much for the prinIegc ofso of 50 informed and aroused as the missionary preaching Christ where he has not been named Who ho in Europe gave to lis5ion5 asas lid Carey larshmall and Vud If then hsides our own gifts we can send somesome thing more from the fields we labor in it will be a joy i1H1ce But perhaps I haye madetiIing made a mistake and my figure is too small Yell thcn Jet us as missionaries gic XOT LESLES NI
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l11is l11iIRvJust fronla misRJust to DavvnReadingalettcrfrot11a Just Beginning ye yere struck with ssionary in China we sionary fc A few days ago ith this relnark agoI had an experiencc of tttH1s11al pleasure that of talking yith a womanYOllUUYOllUUl hon1 the light of Christianity is just beginning to dawnupon whom lupon danTdan Truly that I1111St be a pleasant experienceto yatch the effects of theruly the first rstt rays of spiritual light as they fall upon the darkness of a heathen
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obserycrfho must that pleasure be enhanced when the observerfAnd how observer feels that he or she as in this case has been instrumental in bril1Oino bril1Oinoeels bringingbringing pleasnrebnotpleasnrebnot ith that darkened soul This is a pleasure notnot the light into contact with goho go oftcn enjoyed by workers in this country but often by those who often roshado of death to carry to those sitting thereinto the region and shadow there bin sharebin life These workers can appreciate as they share in thethe the light of foundationas doing foundation joy of Paul as he gloried in the fact that he was york building on no other mans foundation Work work The region of thethe shado of death is great and the darkened hearts are many and thethe shadow more morlight carriers are few Great Source of light send forth many more-
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Pendleton Jones at in Hall as appointed a missionary to Brazil to locate probably innah Ga was Assistthe Rio mission Brother Jones is a son of Dr J Vm Jones Assist block ant Secretary of our Home Board and is a chip of the old blockthe for zeal energy and consecration He is an English graduate of theis Seminary and his work at Duffy street church has proved that he isSCJuinary yorhise and successful workworker a wise
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BaptistApril last our Baptist yavava contributed brethren in Italy under the English Board and ours hayehave they haveAs a result the he1 a bazaar in Rome an held rious articles and To sent to our Treasurer for the Centennial Fund 153515 francs To12535this has been added by various Italian brethren and churches 12535 China orth 31750 Chinafrancs more making in all 166050 francs worth rere home Will we at and Italy have spoken for the Centennial fund Sp0111 spondspond heard my bed one morning while still the darkness filled the room I heardon my in melodious melodiouscall of a thrushs clarion by the through the open casement from a tree close notes song lIe uttered with piercing and musical sweetncss the rapid trills and piping notesinin already he saw in of his lay as though to tell me recumbent there the gloom that his gosgos receive listened to I life and work the east the breaking of a day for strenuous prophesied pel and soon there stole upon my waiting eyes the glowing radiance he had prophesieddutiesThen the day da came and I rose for its claimant duties slumber m Carey sang to the Church which rested in slumberSo one hundred years ago Win will the in theGods mistaking need ignorant of mens ous ease neglecting 00- responsibility 0 ermonsermonsermon inspired of words that sublime darkness dtrkness of tradition and pride He sang in the God Expect great things from God attempt great things for Godthe stirring charge thethe with alight He Ile sang in that masterly pamphlet the fruit of his painstaking toil all lIe throughthrough cleaving appeal glow of Divine wisdom and power He sang tit ith penetrating Heprejudice arousing conscience heart and will to do and dare for the cause of Christ He thefor long the who age every in sang in tones of holy rapture making glad the saints with Kingdom of God He sang from a soul strong in the sure conviction and bright withIiiigdom As I
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haschas That day of redemption hasDA Y FOR THE HEATHKX of A1 KKDEMPTION DAY the beginnings J 5 11 A IInclolCRc Rev HacknetHackneyIInclolC do with Hackney we it lr shall What hat is opportunity our now come It E11gla11d E11gla1iEng England EnglanEngland lanindeed1dThat dThat That question confronts us as it does our English brethren and indeed c5
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prayer all Christians Willll wec embrace our opportunity and by prayerill wewill God Or of wecclabor and selfsacrifice buy it up for the glory its let sloth selfishness covetousness lead us to let it go by and take itsfullis so full placc among the lost opportunities of which the past place yours i11 is for yours it yoursGyonrsGopportunity ho will you use this Godgiven Reader how home ith extraordinary power of conversion at homehonors a missionary church with signssigns the in China and India own our holding we We are creeping up the Congo are hundredone hundred home churches own our are cheering but it is manifest to all that from Bap times more missionaries might go if only all vcrc on fire What would not our BapmembershipOur membership missionary spell 300000 tist community become under such a the would grow into 3000000 and England would rapidly be won for Christ Then themen world could not despise our faith The triumphs of the cross would be so great menHermansIIermansIIermans could not gainsay its power Remember Louis Harms and the church at Iiermansand burgh Dr Pierson tells us that in 1849 these people poor peasants farmers andfield chosen as a fieldw1schoscn their own Foreign Missionary Society Africa was laborers organized theirown wrought and all the zeal of the parish turned into that channel Now see what God wroughtlolllonglong During the seventeen years of Louis Harms ministry the Church enjoyed one loll lon357 grejal revival 10000 members were received into its fold while abroad 30 stations 357expen ith an expenworkers 3920 communicants and 8520 adherents from heathendom with Those ere in 1SS3 the seal to Gods faithful word Thosediture of 20000 per annum were m05tmost ho answer the Heathens cry with fullest consecration are always mostchurches who nV A Hackney EnglandTver W homeRey blessed at home England BlJgmuhomeRp GOD OD
spirituallThere There is little doubt that the best and only cure for the spiritual yeakness many rcyi n1issionarymissionaryof our churches is a revival weakness of al of the missionary church spirit Such a revival has never failed to bring blessing upon a churchVe all believe this butbut and especially the blessing of spiritual power We tcsttesttest orld waits not enough to test it for ourselves The world aits for such a peoplcing by the Lords peoplepeople MY
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is ago we closed the Spring session of our quarterly class This class iscountry theycomposed of the more promising among our members who give hope that they an may be future leaders in their neighborhoods of some new converts who need to get aninsight into Bible study of some young men who are regularly studying with me andand sparesome of the larger Christian school boys and such of the Canton church as can spare spareYe had thirtyfive in attendance the time We Some of these have come for the firstfirst time and among far amon them are some who are not very promising but with others it is fardifferent Let me introduce you to a few of themthem That brother on the left is brother Hui King literary Kin illg San He is a born leader a literaryhen he first came soon after his conversion he had someman of some cultivation When some of the proud overbearing manner of his class but this has worn off and he nowshow5showsshows nowshow5 now forth the meek spirit of Christ He always sits near the front drinks in every word ofof instruction nods his head in approbation and smiles as new ideas and fresh truths A few weeks ceks
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questionsbreak bnnk in wpon him Hec is quite studious and thoughtful and ready to ask questions IS a delight to teach leaders1He and brother lb leaders Ho Kap Sui are the leadersust such a man as it is ust two among I11ong the Hakka brethren in Tung Une On the front benches on the right are twoHeHeOne old brother Li is the first fruits of Tsung Fa district unto Christ He Old men old to leas has stood persecution and now in his old age he is about 70 he comes regularly todaysevery CQ quarterly class at his own expense and delights to spend the evening of his days thet1estUlIin the Word He is very reverential and always kneels with his face to the in studying to Next todoor in prayer Though much my senior in age he addresses me as U father floor Oregon V who was baptized some years ago afTo in Portland Oregonhim is an old man brother Xg 00Cai1tollaway from CantonCanton but has been buried in his native village about one hundred miles away attentivelyMite bright and listens attentively for twelve years without coming to see us He is quite ior dailyand says if he had known there was such an opportunity of studying the Bible daily beforebefore come Canton to would he have month tor a KingHingKing A few seats back of these two old brethren are two young men from near Shiu RingJgoverngovern attending the when baptized very Liu was One brother of them Oth very bright both His He was a student and kept a school in his native village Hisment examinations forfor hopes His persecution fathers becoming a Christian aroused much opposition and adbe ad Christian to impossible for a his literary career were blasted for it is almost his locked mitted to a degree if he acknowledges himself a Christian He was beaten and lockedis awho aauncle his His gave father b night over the roof up tip but made his escape by HeHehim He find might he him kill wherever desperate character a written permission to Singaporeescaped to Canton and went to Hong Kong with the intention of going to Singapore doingsubsistence by doing bare but we dissuaded him from it and he has been earning a himhim about ways very studious but has none of the proud student copying He is very on011on home returned Since the class he has been studying regularly with me but has lately I
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hishis visit by my advice and through Gods answer to our prayers we learn that hisfellowfellow his to talking all day parents have become reconciled to him and he is kept busy study villagers i1Iagers of Jesus Hs is now on his way to Canton again to studySiSi On the seat behind these young men are three men from the province of Kwang withwith consumed is He Vn W Kwan Si colporter a is our Kwang Ian Wn One of them brother Pan Mnn persecutedprovince to Christ For this he has been persecuted his native bring zcai a burning to t11zeal and thethe and beaten and forbidden to enter villages but he works with unflagging thathile he was working as a boatman that egentle gentle and earnest spirit of Christ It was while gentle NewXcwfrom New hc first heard the gospel from brother Chang Kum Sing who is supported he toseems to and 5 a month freely for the cause York Brother Pau spends his salary haghashe has whom ith him are two men think of nothing but leading others to Christ With to year One oof them deserves toYear baptized last were both They brought down to class littlea little ago years ears three Some works gospel the how of be mentioned as an example wor Bible and worband of Christians met at the house of one of their number to read the ChrisChris become ship God in Shek Tong a Kwang Si village Several of the Sue clan had doc perverse docnewfangled this of progress the stop to meeting tians and the clan had a our wa Yuc Kin Poon now ourtrine They selected three of their number one of whom was village to the villagebrother to warn the Christians to desist and those who did not belong not toto them warned and brethren the on waited to leave immediately The committee TheThe mobbed be would they or Sunday was which attempt on the next day attempt to meet onthe they aw and had a right to worship as theyChristians Chrisans replied that they were breaking no law bro led by brothc met the next day they were set on by the mob thought right When they preacherpreacher native the but others several were ther Yuc Brother Pnu was beaten as The him to leave Thebrother Lo Kwok since dead was ill in bed so they only warned tomatter to the took Christians The away carried things in the room were broken or thattmerely asking that but damages for reparation the magistrate not demanding any interfere not to interferehey they might be protected and that their assailants should be warned
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andand with ith their exercise of their religion They found their enemies had been beforehand aulcrimes bringingand various bringing of them accusing them against accusation an lodged fwd had magis a number of false charges against them When the rioters were called before the magisofno grievous charge of brought had Christians find the that surprised to were trate they in like cnsccasea done case certainly have would heathen the as bill damages for nssault or assault 111 I u says he was so struck with the modmod hut merely desired protection in the future Yuc but bebe religion must felt a such he Christians that th of the that magnanimity eration and Irdledled be slanderous This must Christianity against reports common the good and that to him to examine the Bible for himself and the truth and Paus forgiving spirit led him toin totalking active became as once to and baptized at become a Christian He was his ignoranceignorance in days of the Christianity in been opposing others of Jesus as he had and Desiring to know more of the Scriptures he has come to Canton to study with me andHishis in His native province the useful fellowhelper truth to lie he gives promise of being a his strnightclear by straightall us straight interested and been baptized little son a lad of eleven has school schoono in our schoolforward relation of his experience before the church lie is now All promising andmy and not of course are speaking of others Want lrant of space forbids before we for tell awhile us can telllike teachers at home we have to have men study with inin home both and at whether they are studious and promising or not Some men in imparting a China seem to think it a misuse of mission funds to employ them Chinese on theirtheir knowledge of the Bible to these native brethren and would cast the the own resources as soon as they are baptized and let them pick up a knowledge of theBible way ay they can in their country villages but weC do not so read our Bibletruth the best a duty or so conceive concee of our duty11
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LETTERLETTEBROTHER BRUNSONS LETTER resigna We have thought it best to give brother Brunsons letter accompanying his resignaEnEn tion both for his sake and that of the Board EnjKEnlEnl 1S021S02 KOKtRA KOKURA Iay 23 1S92lS2OECRA FIKUOKA KEN JAPAN May BeJlBellDear Brother Bell inquiry The enclosed resignation will perhaps create some surprise and provoke inquiryHence I herein offer a few explanatory wordswords My conclusive 2Iy reasons for resigning are few but to me conclusiveforeign First I am fully convinced that I am not qualified for successful work on the foreignfield clearlclearl clearly Disposition habitudes of thought and feelings inclination all combined clearlybe show my inaptitude Further retention of my services will in my humble estimation bea waste of time and money Thisconc1usion This conclusion is no hasir datahastvinduction induction from insufficient data awasteof haslyinduction Even before leaving America I seriously questioned my quahfications for mission workwork friendsand so expressed myself but met with rather light and trivial responses from the friends I approached on the subject Realizing my incapacity to explain my misgivings in thethe absence of experience and thinking perhaps they were due onl only to the monitions of a-aatender conscience and would quickly vanish before actual participation in the work I my suppressed them and came But the sequel painfully discovers to me the vanity of myhope A residence of two and a half years on the field and a close survey of the workwork hayc confirmed rather than dispelled my fears The conviction of unfitness has beenhave been steadily growing since my first attempts to adapt myself to my new environmentenvironment Second Secondly The conviction grows upon me that God has never called me to the workwork I am a Boardcalled see postscriptEd postscript Ed missionary and not a Godcalled one As natu Asaa natural result I am destitute of that sustaining grace and reassuring sense of Gods presence presencethat field that one whom God calls and equips has a right to expect My entire stay on the fieldb deep hns been characterized by lias has dee spiritual despondency often sinkinO paralyzing sinking into paralyzingParahziwdoubts and an sometimes approaching despair So susceptible have I been at times to thethethe influence of the tempter that I have even seriously contemplated abandoning the minis II-
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try and engaging engaginj in whatever secular employment I could find Yet I struggled onon by an occasional gleam of light from the presence of Christ hoping that thecheered Cheered the morning of victory would soon dawn when my duty would be made clear and I should shouldworkhe happy in my work on which the mission question was first presented to me until now I-IIday From the been impressed with the feeling that God had laid the work upon me MyVfV have ha re never My tlS based simply upon the ground of willingness and not conviction and per 1ction was aciion action peperpe haps some of the members of the Board will remember that I laid especial emphasis uponilaps upon I reiterated the fact both then and afterwards that I-IIthis fact during my examination questionwas unconscious of any distinct call from God I was first led to consider the question with a view of immediate settlement by the stirring appeals of brother Powell and youryour inself in which the needs of the fields were described as being very in urgent owinn vcrv owing the to b b bbEdEd postscriptEd1postscript adequate supply of men and under the influence of the specious see postscriptEdapostscriptEd dutyargument rgument rgument that in the absence of sufficient reason why one should remain at home duty tailed him to foreign fields I offered myself and was accepted called the In reference to theabove argument which was successfully used among at aboc anion the young men in the Seminary atdirectdirectthe time that I was there permit me to say that the absence of any decided and direct rele sufficient call icient reason for remaining at home God has not reletall from God is an amply sum dutyc the duty ission Boards godly professors agents of missionary societies gated to Mission cthe his and responsibility of calling workmen to his vineyard not even to that portion of hisdeep Nothing short of a deepcommonly denominated foreign mission fields vineyard common yineyanl conscientiousunwavering conviction that God has called him is capable of sustaining a conscientious constrainedI of in constrained am such conviction absence his in the and work missionary foreign resign to resignThirdly Tl1jrdl
and I believe that God has a work for me some where but not in Japan andit therefore I must resign and seek itreachedreachedSuch are my reasons for sending in my resignation The decision has been reached toinsensible not I to advisedly am I step the take and tfter a long and severe struggle after fuIlyawarefully awareaware fuIlyaware I am circumstances the under return my to the odium that will be attached MylyMy ly sccre1 and some perhaps will impugn my motives My that many will censure me severely whatdo I then be what conceived I duty to Only only nly plea is I was honestly mistaken I did what con I conceive to he duty now However humble my position may be in America I am conprospectno prospect have here I there than yinced that I can be of more service to my Master vinced is of immediate employment in America but I return with a clear conscience and if it ismeme place for will he provide a true that God is leading me back it is also true that can Xo work of modern times canCllany I interest in missions has suffered no abatement My brighterbrighter receive will a missionary none foreign of the in to compare that importance 1comIare blessingsho faithfully upholds the cross and the attendant blessings crown in heaven than he who calledcalled caledGod has whom amid hostile and uncongenial surroundings and happy the man HenceHence him and Ind honored with the work But woe to him who goes before God calls hithertom y iniluence will be exerted for missions as it has hitherto rJrth my forth upon I resign just at this time because new missionaries are expected in the fall and uponarrangementarrangement their arrival there will be a redistribution of the forces here In this new one an readjustment of forces the missionaries should understand that I am no longer oneand bebeeefield of them in order to act intelligently I do not think it will be wise to quit the noblenoble is tore lore reinforcements arrive I am unwilling to leave McCollum alone He brave tillis capable of bearing the burden but my presence will be helpful till and efficient
and responsibilityothers come to share the responsibility inin One word more I feel very keenly the mistake I have made and shall endeavor amountevery way way to make amends I consider that I am in debt to the Board to the amount reexpect re to reI health me gives and me blesses Lord of money none expended upon me If the soonersooner but debt cancelling the years be may I me fund tul1l every dollar Be patient with accomplished accomplisheor later God helping me it shall be accomplished-
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consistent Please la lay these explanations before the Board and act as promptly as is consistentpublicapublica with with wisdom I want to bear all the blame of this transaction myself and if a ptthlicathe the resignation together with these explanations will in any way tion of flY exonerate theofthe themthem publish liberty to Y011 are at yon Board BUUXSONBUUXSON I am yours in Christian bonds Jxo A lllwso-
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PLANTHE CENTENNIAL CHAPEL CARD PLAN A good plan is essential to success in any undertaking and particularly in such anauan one as that proposed by the Centennial Committee of the S B C to aid in raising raisin olle cffecti C the plan for this work must be simple 250000 for missions To he effective sinipleeasily easily unun emderstood and practical Such is the Chapel Card Plan Let me explain This plan eiliem hraces two simple cards with a picture of a chapel on them having a red foundationbraces foundation representing fifty squares or bricks These cards are to be distributed to all who willwill square or brick represents ten cents i e when vontake them to be filled up Each sunrc youyou give any one you run a pin through one of theans the gie ten cents or solicit ten cents from anyone you have given fifty ten cents or gotten others to give them andan when you squares and anand have dhae punched the fifty squaresone is filled You thentie square for each ten centsyour cents y our card isfillcd then filled with collected thus return this card 5 the fil1edwith to the Superintendent Sunday5cardthus of the SundaySunday C1l001 or the President of the Missionary Society and school an you will receive a certificate uponupon which hich is excellent Villiam lliam an engraving of Carey This you may keep as a memorialJwhich memorial of the Missionary Centennial There are tvo cards because one is for Foreign MissionsIissionsMissions and the other for Home Missions You can take either card or both and receive a cercer tificate for as many Cards as you fill outout This Card Plan seems to me to be one of the simplest and most practical of plansplans that I have ever seen I do not see how it can be improved It is adapted to all oldold and young rich and an poor to the family the Mission Band the Mission ission Society thethe Sundayschool and to the Church To the rich and to tle poorthose poor those who are able cancan fill out a card or even a hundred of these cards for themselves Those who are less ableable can fill out one card or even a part of a card and then ask their friends for the otherother climes dimes until the fifty are secured returning the card with the o5 and receiving certifi receiin a certificate Families may take a card for cach memuer of the family flnd together fill themthem up the parents helping the children Missionary Bauds and Circles may become solicitsolicit ing agents by means of these cards for the Centennial Fund and fill out as maIn as many asthey can receiving in exchange for the funds they raise certificates as receipts and asas mementos of this first centennial of modern missions So with Sundayschool scholarsscholars teachers and classes Each one can do individually what he or she can to fill a card andand then solicit the balance Classes as classes may fill up a card and thus secure a certificertifi certifcate for their class as a class Teachers can fill out a card and receive the certificateicte certificate for the class or the scholars can fill out a card for their teacher and present the teacherteaehcrteacher with a certificate
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cry very many But if we do the best we canThe ways of filling up these cards are very can with this card plan pastors must be interested in urging it in sermOns and addressesaddresses Iud in encouraging as many of their people as can to take cards to fill them up 11 uchand MuchMuch uch depends upon the Superintendent in keeping the Chapel Cards before the school in exex plaining and urging it and encouraging those who are using them Teachers can helphelp the pupils in a score of ways Take an interest in this work of their scholars and stimustimu Parents can help theirtheir late them on by timely encouragement and cheery counsels advice children by giving them aid and helpful advicechilren I am satisfied that if this chapel card car plan is pushed as it may be and ought toto this he we shall be amazed and surprised at the magnificent results that will crown thisbe been work for the Centennial fund The success of the plan everywhere that it has beenonce fairly faidy tried has been cheering and surprising If you are not using it begin at onceission Rooms No 10 E FayFay Seud for cards and certificates to the Maryland Send larIand Baptist Mission receive will the all Md Id cards and the explanapromptly explana Baltimore and you ette street and tions you need to have They ought to be used in every family mission band circle andin Southof church Baptist every South the society young peoples society and Sundayschool Then Scatter these cards among our young people and the women of all our churches ThencardRemember funds every in the card push the work of filling them up and of gathering fill Thatleast at up and 100000 That that is filled means 5 for missions Let us circulate and will be 500000 for the saving of the lost and the glory of God Let us all work andELLIS ELUSELLIF M ELL IS Iill work together nil C CSFor For the Centennial Committee S B C-
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WILDERNESSWATERS IN THE WILDERNESS Solomon King SolomonThe Prince of Peace land Looked oer the arid landBabylonBabvlonlaay toward Babylon Thnt eastward lay That sansan A sea of desert sandsand flow Let rivers from the mountains flowordord word Went rent forth the royal wordthough And streams straightway descend as thoughheardThe hillside fountains heard Tire handshands By rh labor long of many handsslowBy Ih tireless toil and slow sands A channel deep grew through the sandsflow Where those cool streams might flow-
snows They The came with touch of mountain snowsbalms With tlt breath of mountain balmsWith roscrose And An1 on the plain Palmyra rosePalmsThe City of the Palms sandIt rose amid the waste of sand A
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today Thus saith our Prince of Peace todaygracegrace Send forth the stream of tiraceway Let willing hands prepare a wayplaceplace pacedesert every even In command Shall we not heed our Kings commandShall flowsflows river free Till that landland Till every een dry and desertroseShall blossom as the rose bring brimAli Ah think what joy our toil shall bringeyeseyes eyswaiting Yhen When wearv kingKtI1KtI1 King Cit of the KingShall see the City Shall SelectedoParadisfSclectedof Paradise Selected The Palms oParadisfSclected 1
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ot-t havc continued to speak and testify ofhave ot Christ with all persons met One of thethe brethrcn who fell siVk has not only beenbrethren been visited by the others but assisted his assistedinin hisneed for he has a large family OurOur young brother continues urging us to propro vide ide a chapel for Miglionico and sayingsaying their that the brethren will not fail to do theirpart part with money and labor He has thatthat chapel on the brain and on the heart andand veril verily I believe that it must be built as itit will cost little and besides its more immeimme diate use it will be an eloquent preacherpreacher to the numerous towns and villages villaglsvillagesaroundaround Signer Francesco Olivero thus writesSignor writes The 22d 2d of 2la May was a day of great concon solation and joy to the church at SanSan SnRemo A brother of eightythree years of ears ofage was baptized in a large bath placedplaced plflccdtemporarily locllletemporarily in the centre of the localelocale this plan being adopted because thisthis ticbrother suffers much from rheumatictic brothtr rheumatic rheuma scpains and cannot walk well With a sese rene mind he replied to the usual quesques nd after he had been buried in thetions and the in water he repeated Yes I firmly believe inatof at Jesus Christ and having come up out ofthe water he raised his hands to heavenheaven ltemenexclaiming This also I have done I havehanhave obeyed the great commandment of ourour Lord Jesus Christ I have done as he diddid Brothcr Olivero seems much encouragedBrother encouraged at the general progress of the churchchurch Signor Volpi writes of the persecutionspersecutions suffcred by suffered y the little band of brethren atatt Gravina The Roman Catholic pulpit rerre soundcd with appeals to the population sounded populationflgainst the Protestants so that the posiagainst posi tion of our brethren became very criticalcritical There was no little danger that the crycry be Down with the Protestants would becircir into translated bloody facts In these cumstances protection was sought at thethe hand of the authorities who then forbade forbadethe Roman Catholic preachers to preachpreach against their Protestant fellow citizenscitizens and this was stopped but the virus had t-
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Iy dear brother You will probablyprobably My brotherYou meet have heani through Dr Eager of the meetof ing at Miglionico and the receiving ofbaptism more than a score of persons for baptismim eighteen of them being then by him imand mersed It was indeed an interesting andSoon thereafter thethe joyful occasion field ung evangelist left temporarily his fieldyoung voting to to be married to the Florentine girl toengaged whom he had been for some time engagedof On their way home wee had the pleasure ofentertaining for a few days the bridalbridal entertaining each seeme quite happy in eachpair who seemed giingtgiving other I took the opportunity of givingad ice and specially did I them some advice hem prac warn him against the too common practice with Italian husbands of treatingtreating their wives as inferior beings Perhaps itit is not only in Italy that men catch thethe womanwords of the Apostle Peter about woman being the weaker vessel while they igig nore the conclusion that therefore she is toto receive recee honor I liked the bride and trusttrust that as she and her family were the instruinstru thements of leading the young man to the gospel so she may be to him a real helphelp mate in fulfilling his mission and as sheshe is very capable in her trade weaving yarnyarn and has carried her loom along she willwill hy no means eat the bread of idlenessby idleness She writes us of their journey home inin cluding the two and a half hours on dondon keys from the depot to the village andand I have found great simplicityadds simplicity among the people and am happy that It ItI even cen I can cooperate with Carlo in thethe work of the Lord Carlo writes GreatGreat was Elviras surprise to see the rooms allall rilled with people to bid her welcome andfilled and her surprise was turned to pleasure whenwhen in the evening we and all the brethren andand sisters sat down at long tables coveredcovcredcovered with dinner this being the way of expresscxpressexpress ing their joy at welcoming a new sistersister I embraced the opportunity to speak ofof Christ and all sun sung a hymn During mv my II-
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ployed evangelists there is here and there therea Baptist brother travelling for his ownowntown affairs tTairs who witnesses for the truth andand of that not without effect From one ofthese I have just received a letter whowho specially in Sicily has announced Christ Christand taught his commandments so tbatwewewe that tbatwe haye some scattered Baptists in thatihave thatthat island My Isbnd sland least y great desire is to see at leastone witnessing Baptist church planted inin Sicily but we have not the means or thethe andlman at present to begin a work there andand Jcsidcs I desire that there may be somebesides some special Providential matterleading in the matter Proidelltialleading I have to UlC just returned from a journey torecrec 1rdinia where I trust I was able to reeSardinia Ti Tity some disorder and heal some breachesTify breaches as ell as encourage and hearten thethe is well is voice 1rethren Brethren rethren and again and again lift my voicem publicly testifying of the grace of GodGod In H Itt was a toilsome trip and I had a touch touchtt f fever but on the whole hole I review itit 1
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count of his labors as colporterevange colporterevangelistlist I lost the use of my voice on the jburneyjourneyjourney jurneyand experienced great difficulty in makingmaking myself myse1f understood I trust that God ireirsinirs his mercy will restore it to me Pray forfor me Last Sunday I went to Monte CarloCarlo On leaving the train I found sister LomLornLom bardi and her husband with a bundle inireinin his hands ready to go along the shore intOintointointo French territory to be baptized TheThe other two brethren came according to ourour understanding and we were ere all togethertogether Ye sat down on the beach under theWe the vault of heaven to read and meditate oreore the Divine Word for I desired to ascertairoascertainascertainascertain whether they were fully persuaded as totCPtoto IreInIGthe step they were about to take In truth they had faith but had not graspegraspedgraspe grasped all the significance of the act To be briefbrief I gave them man many passages of ScriptureScripture and many explanations and recommendarecommenda toltions in regard to holiness in order ttotto eave no room for evil speaking or opporJcave leave oppor worktunity for the overthrow of the wortswork begun alreadyy begunBefore going down into the sea I mademade a solemn prayer to God invoking all thethe graces upon them and blessings on thethe sisthe sis work in that quarter I began with thesisthesis XoNotXotNot ter who readily went into the water Xo tctDtohaying succeeded at first I was obliged tc having to patiencepatience th all patiencmake a second attempt With bebe the dear sister went further out to bequitequite buried in baptism The water was quitecold although it was eleven oclock in thethe tbethe Brother Lombard was themorning risen waterout of he the water When had last his he turned his face to heaven raising hisfor grantGod grantigrant thanked and clasped hands hisng his ing him this opportunity of spreading histoobedience tohis to name abroad through wasdeclared wasHe it that was His command iru1miru his wish by Gods help to live and die irnheheemotion his he joy and In His service hishis could hardly find language to express hisfthetbetheI suggesting helped by the feelings eelings and goocBgoocB goo proper Scripture words It is a googoodgood 11 e witnessed such goodiwhile hile since I have ThisTh1sTnaThis promise as in this dear brother diddi2didhe did fact also is to be remembered that he not do this in secret on the contrary he-
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pa lead made known his opinions to his paliad Itad all rents at Alexandria and he had told allaskedi1is relatives in Yentimiglia and asked iris his They them to be present at the baptism Theybusi were unable to come on account of busiindispositionness duties and perhaps indisposition T G B TTBagbyMBagby From Brother BagbyEIIWSTATE EIIW MACAHE JANEIROTE OF Rio JJANEIRO JANEIROACAHE LCHE ST 1S92BRAZIL May 15921S92 Ia 23d 18921 18921-
Tupper Dellr Dr TupperDear missionary I write this letter while on a missionarymissionarrMacalieacaheof Macahetown Macalie acahe trip at the pleasant coast good mentioned in one of my letters as a goodof place lJlacc for work in easy reach of the city offor campos I am trying to secure a hall forCampos preach preaching as we hope to be able to preachmonth ncre regularly at least once a monthjicre here ve were living here for a month oror When hen we be WO during the late hot season we betwo andand ame well acquainted with the people Hudcame to were well received by them I preached toof hem once and was urged by many ofthem continue them to continuethen in Yesterday I spent with the brethren inBap xTampos ampos ainpos and had a happy time Bapeveningtized the fiftieth member in the evening eager Att night our hall was crowded with eagerJjsteners to the sermon 3jsteners needvc do need How we Listeners rere We a t once for that great a man at area t work Weanxiously Boaranxious await tidings from the BoardBoard anxious man dtarding our urgent request for a manregarding regionfor this region begunIn the city of Xictheror the work begun in January is most cheering and we havehave haejust ust organized a church and secured a perper manent hall for the meetings The sevenseven onembers members mrmbers composing this new church werewere wcreIall H baptized this year into the Rio churchchurch They are all enthusiastic workers forfor Christ Christ and are going ahead vigorously vigorouslyThey propose to be at no expense to thethe Board Buard for their running expenses withwith the help of some of the brethren of thethe Rio church paying the rent of the preachpreach ang The ing hall lights c from the first TheltbIic meetings are well attended andpublic and much interest is manifested be God berpraised praised praised for this new opening for the propro V ord claiming of his Word
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as In Rio we continue to move along asno suitable buildinghaving building but our usual and for the meetings is becoming more andhall more of a hinderance every day The hallbadly where we preach is very poor and badlyimpossiblelocated and we have found it impossible Ye We are losinglosing to secure anything better building immensely by having no church buildingneeneed Go help us in our great neednee May la God iIlncssillness m first serious illnessI am just up from my years since the attack of yellow fever six yearst11 illness was malarialmalarial malariaago This time my to fever lfer and liver disorder Was confined toslowly my room two weeks Am now slowlystrongergetting stronger We Board re hope to hear again from the Boardthcthe very soon regarding our return to thethe United enited States in August I wrote to theresponse Board through brother Bell in responseisitvisit isit to their request that I delay my own visitof home as long as possible telling them ofmorethe impossibility of my remaining more field than a few months longer on the fielabso Iy going is an absodwithout without a change My hutbut lute necessity I regret it exceedingly butswyingIy stayingstaying see no way of avoiding it My longer means a permanent breakdownbreakdown Brazil and loss of future usefulness in BrazilWee are happy to have brother amlister sister and sisteramlisterBroBro Taylor back with us again in Rio liroevery Lordstlier Taylor now preaches ther Lords day well day All of us are at present wellYours most truly in Christs workwork
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T uppcr upperDear Dr Tuppcrupper I wrote you of on about the collecting ofto troops at this point by the government tohaychave go against some interior tribes who havesoooclosed their roads against Lagos and socommunicacommunica put a stop to trade or other place tion with this placeone The expedition consisting of about onethousand five hundred men started lastlast landing Thursday week from Lagos A landingEpewas effected on the following day ay at Epe the a town on the border of Ijebu one of thealtroublesome tribes The Ijebu people all
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left the town on the landing of the BritishBritish troops and went to the further interiorinterior places for better concentration beforebefore snaking stand making a standThe British force took up their marchmarch slowly as it must be because of the narnar rowness of the roads and thickness of thethe forests They were occasional1y greetedgreetegreete with ol1eys of buckshot from natives inin ambush These men in ambush were inin ievery yillagesyillages nterr instance routed and their villagesterr
ley Pinnock and Smith and their cowork coworkers The time has been too shortshort Ve received one for baptism a few daysWe days ago Several others profess conversion conversionbut we are taking time to teach them thethe way of the Lord more perfectlyperfectly WWe Ve are a11 at our post faidy veU andVe and pushing the work Ask that prayer bebe herecontinually mae here made for the work workhereworkhere Yours faithfullyfaithfully
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country The battle lasted about threethree allaU hours and was hard fought Xearly aUof tbe British officers received slightslight wounds Five of them were severelyseerelyseerely wounded and one nate officer waswas kiIledkilled Twcnty Jjeuu chiefs werc killedkiIled WeC hae heard no estimate of the numbernumber of mcn killed but it must hac been largelarge A ujuleThe capital was taken and the AwujuleAwujule ujule King is a prisoner The goernor of thisthis will go to Ijebu Ode tomorrow colony will tomorrowcomescomes to formerly annex Ijebl1 and so she coniesof ow one ofunder the crown of England Now of the greatest obstacles to the growth ofresults this colon has been remocd and resultsfollow must followpopulation This Ijebu country hang a populationfew of prohably 100000 lyin lying within a fewmis miles of Lagos has nenf permitted a misterritory sionary to settle within her territoryto Often missionaries ha havee been required topassing pay enormous sums for quietly passingpaid notnot through Thirty dollars was pai forfor missionary single not long since by a hishis opening passing through without wouldouldould He would gospel 1110uth mouth in regard to the preach not ha havee been allowed to preachits During nil of these years slavery in itsalongalong worst form has existed there and using with it the barbarous custom of usingsacrificessacrifices these staves in offering human thc5c aboli This movemcnt will result in the abolithe tion of slavery and human sacrifices thegospel opening up of of the country to the gospeland the introduction of law and order andhave also opens the road so that we can havemission communication with our interior missionOe aries We hae not yet heard from Lumb I
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1892 June 6th 1892Dr II TuppeTupper IIA TapperMIy rJly Dear Brotl1erSeeral incidents ofof Jly the some interest havc bappened during theclosed month lust closedmonthjust city At the senices in our chapel in this citygrown the congregations gencrally have grownIf so large as to be somewhat unwieldy Ifmore it continues thus we must make moretaking room in the hall It can be done by takingdivision out a wall of divisionpast With th this church four united the pastinterestedintenstc month and many are intenstcYc have planned to open up three newnew We work points at which to do cangeIistic workthe The Baptists easily now could take themoneyState of Bahia if they had more money men and more mentwo Miss liss Bishop arrived at Bahia twodays weeks ago from London and a few daysbrother thereafter was married to our brotherBaptist Ginsburg- Although she is not a BaptistGinsburg Ginsbur she at present I think it quite likely that sheIn any case I will become one shortly wen wellthink she comes fully intending as wenand as prepared to doo mission work andinitia in fact brother Ginsburg is already initiaherting her another Am sorry to say that I havc had anotherattack of feverthis time of malarial I-IIto fear that I am a little too susceptible totocountry to of the influences malarial the BAHIA B AHIA BRAZIL
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Dear JournalJourI1alJournal anotherISeveral notices of one kind and an anotheranother mve have been written you concerning ourour work in this great and growing State ofof San Paulo and especially concerning ourour German brethren sarroSadness and sorrowsarro sorrow have settled down upon them permapermaaanently I fear Since I last wrote youyou nearly half of them have gone to thethe States to join their brethren who precededpreceded them a year or more ago and that monmon elloy fever ster yellow ever has taken away nearlyneadynearly balf of the remaining ones Now therehalf there are only eight left at Campinas and ninenine here near San Paulo city Then too soso conscientious are they that they will notnot day and have to losework on the Lords day lose all rainy days and holidays Add to thisthis the enormous rent and living theenormous Ihingexpellses expenses andand they find themselves poor in this worlds worldsgoods Xot that they ought to work onon Sundays but here because they will notnot do soo they are compelled to take such litlit Ie jobs as may be called day labor tle OneOne poor brother told me yesterday that liehehe would not labor on the Lords day even ifif he should gain twice as much as on otherother days Xow that I return to Rio in aboutabout ten days they are left with no one to looklook after them Some that are here now willwill also go to the States in a few monthsmonths while others will never go Then there isis our Santa Barbara wqrk among theamon the Americans Americansaa colony that went out soon lmericansa Americans
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after the civil war I have ha C been going toto yisit and to preach to them at intervals visit intervalsbut they too are now without a headleadhead They are badly scattered and need a sheshepshe sliepshep her herd Howgreat Ilow great and grand a field whollywhonywholly unoccupied by us in this State There isis not a preacher in all the State except anan occasionnl one as myself while on the runoccasional run from the fever for a few weeks in Rio ItIt does seem a great loss of a great opportuopportu nity for the State to be thus left to othersothers who are not even as a drop in a bucketwho buclctbucket How glad we all would be for the peoplepeople of God at home to say to our BoardBoard money and here are men go inHere is money Here in and occupy the landland When Vhen one looks over this vast territory territoryand sees how devoted are the CatholicsCatholics to their religion and how many there areare of them then compares all this with thcthethe scarcity of laborers it is easy cas to draw a-aasigh of relief at the thought that the rere sponsibility is ours no further than to behebe faithful in what is committed to us FromFrom a human standpoint one may well feefeefeel lthat it is of no use whatever to stand andthat and face the tide of human depravity ntHandand 1Catholic Catholic perversity as is seen here onon every hand cyery ever The Go yeC into all thethe world of our Lord is a sufficient antianti dote to all discouragement discouragementRio being our field of work we returnreturn there about the first of May we Iar though weare more or less loth to leave lea C this fair citycity beautiful for situation and goodlvtodwell c1wel1goodlvtodwellc1wel1 goodly to dwellin
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RCENTENNIAL 6CENTENNIAL CHILDRENS DAYCENTENNIAL DAY The Baptists of the world propose to celebrate the 2d
Cen of October 1S92 as the Centennial anniversary of the birth of modern missions On that day was organized in a-aaprivate parlor in Kettering England by twelve apostolic men a society whose famefame has filled the earth and whose blessings have reached almost as far as the race of manman extends In Great Britain in Canada in Burmah will Burmahthroughout throughout Burmahthrou this day willworldthis shout the world be commemorated The Baptists of the South will observe it in a great Convention atat Louisvilte Ky and the Centennial Committee propose to render it forever memorable Louisville memorablein the history of the Baptist Sundayschools of the South by Childrcnsmaking it the ChildrensChildrens Dav of Centennial OfferingDay Offering Let us make this a great day in missionary missionar work and to this end we earnestly apap peal to every Sundayschool superintendent and teacher in the entire weighweigh South to Weighthe following considerations If wee are going to make this Centennial year a success if the cause of missions is to be moved forward mOe permanently we must reach and inter aa-
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est the young teaching them the facts of missions and inducing them to give to thisthis usccauseblessed usc cause bksse en Wec believe that the he Chapel Card will doo this latter work more effectually anythan any smgle instrumentality an single and for the following reasons The card plan is so simple thatthat it can be easily understood It affords a convenient opportunity of appealing to allall classes and of gathering up the small sums as well as the large and thus helping usus raise the Centennial fund of 250000250000 Ve respectfully suggest that this Childrens Day be observed We by every Sundayschool Sundayschoolin the South A beautiful Centennial Program handsomely illustrated with a series ofof pictures relating to William illiam Careys life has been specially prepared prepared and published ItIt contains hymns original and copied recitations appropriate Scripture selections etcetc furnishing a complete and varied exercise for the days celebration The Programs willfurl1ishiul will he furnished free in numbers sufficient for each scholar to have a copy to every Sundaybe Sunday school in the South which wilt vlpromisc promic to take up a Centennial collection for or Home andand Foreign missions on October 2d or other convenient day or will press the ChapelChapel Cards previously distributed or initiate their use We would further suggest that thetbethe Chapel Cards be distributed beforehand so collections upon them in part if not inin whole may be reported upon this day Also that the occasion be utilized to give outout Cards to all young and an old who have not yet received themthem thmWec confidently believe that a very cry large sum will be gathered into the treasury of thethe Lord by the general observance of this dadayda day The Centennial Chapel Cards are free so are the Certificates circulars and leafletsleaflets Iiss Keziah and her Tracts Annics Bricks and It Miss Annies Chil and with the Centennial ChiDay Program can be had by application to Maryland ldrens Da drens Rooms rarland Baptist Mission RoomsXo0 10 B Fayette St Baltimore Md No ld T H PRITCH PKITCHARPKITCHARD PRITCHARARD ARDFor Committee CommitteFor the Centennial Conirnitte-
eCENTENNIAL CHAPEL CARDS AND CERTIFICATES CERTIFICATESCENTENNIAL I t is hoped during the Centennial year that every one old andand It aill avail himself and herself of the opportunity to make a-a young will freffree this purpose the Chapel Card is at the freeForthis special gift to missions For sendingi1l1nake make collections or offerings upon it sending disposal of all who will hasuse has Boards already Foreign Its the money to either the Home or BapBap The secure Maryland small gifts and proyed its value to interest proved sup tist Mission Rooms 10 E Fayette St Baltimore is the depot of supandA Boards from and appeal the circular plies for S S superintendents vithwithbe sent will also with the interesting narrative leaflet Annies Bricks chargeorders free of charge individuals indhidualsFor Pastors Womans Mission Societies Bands or individualsseve sveapplication should be made to the Literature Committees in the seveV DInan s Missionary UnionUnIonUnion In heading of Womans ral States See addresses in
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I1IISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUSMISCELLANEOUS Mission Our Attitude to Young Missionariesaries inter intrOne more condition of a revival of interthe cst in missions is that candidates for theest with missionary missionarv misionar service shall be dealt withmoremore Ve need men met11110rmet11110re fairly and andgenerously generously We am ethali 11011 C will wi1lnot not get workers than money Money 111011e
money but workers will invariably draw moneymissionary sends out a missionarysends a magnet into the foreign field II-II-of speak whereof I know Two members ofAmeri our church are in the service of the Amerihome can Board They have just been at homeyear and our gifts have been increased this yearthe fivefold The workers have drawn theA church which
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will and the money willGet the not raise itself The missionary service is notcandidates likely to attract unconsecrated candidatesJikehto and Sho Show me a young man of ability andbury character willing to leave home and burythat himself in a distant land whether thatas Jand land is beautiful as Japan or forbidding asgoes YOU one who goesfrica and I will show you Africa dodyith a Christlike purpose purpose and will ddo dp with attiattIbe our should atti What work Christs dan tude toward volunteers for the most danshould The whole army shouldgerous gerous Oerotts service get he and pray as the heget down on its knees an unknown roes advance Mercenaries are unknownamong missionaries Neither the ease of a-aasal missionarys life nor the amount of his salleave ary win the unworthy None will leaveleacAmerican the culture and comfort of an Americanth in home for any honor that can be won inwill Micronesia licronesia or Mexico All who are willaverage aerngeinY ing to undertake such work if of averageability and piety ought to be greetedgrteledgreeted absolutely with cheers Xo obstacle not absolutelyway wawarwa war essential should be allowed in their waythe It requires no little struggle to reach theser point of consecration to missionary sertoo vice Moreover most are young and tooA A-A much must not be expected of them Aworkdworked thousand problems remain to be workedthe out in the midst of the storm and theis stress of life The theology of youth isThings seldom the theology of middle age Thingso11th areare regarded as important in youth away in manhood In the lastlast thrown ayav ThompsoThompson address which Dr Joseph P Thompsonsaid made nmae mae in this country hele saidpreached ost of the sermons which I preachedpreacbeMost 24 preach 24years years ago I would be unwilling to preachd2tvcarsago 2tvcarsago do not believe themmy the110 the now because IIdonot ology olotry simpler olozy has grown shorter and simplerWhen n rhen able men giving evidence of havinghaving ha been born againas again as most every man willwill ing to be a missionary must having and havingmustand been suitably prepared for their work arearcare read to leave home and native land andready and go into comparative oblivion for thosethose ro who can makenoreturnevcry who makenoreturn every voice oughtought lifted to cry God speed every even heart to be liftedin prayer and every word to be beaa word ofof Ye are dependent on ourencouragement We our missionaries they create the enthusiasm enthusiasmand they do the work Encourage themthem do not mock them with questions seldomseldom asked of pastors at home Our choicestchoicest young men and women hayin having spentspent years in study and preparation are bring ing the finest gifts of manhood and wowo manhood and laying them upon the altaraltar The way for their going hard enough atat the best should he made as easy possi as possieasYIS ble I ask if we can expect our work toto advance while we take sides concerningconcerning speculations of which none of us knowknow anything nything and allow them to be obstaclesobstacles in m the way of our noblest and most conse money
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ded crated sons and daughters who have dedrequirit1icated themselves to a ministry requiringrequiring ilill Will apostolic postolic zeal and martyr heroism WillIS presumptionpresumption ingness mness lmness to be a missionary is Lfavor in favor of fitness and when that willingwilling in ness is allied with a healthy body an intelligent mind and the aH a Christlike spirit the1S complete andevidence of the divine call is and callswho dare hinder those whom God canscalls RC1 Rev Independent IndependenAcr A41 II Bradford in the I11depemJeIJtThe Japanese ElectionstThe The Elections
quietly Have now been held and passed off quietlyY-WY Professor Earnest WW on the whole numberClement of Chicago who spent a number in the government schoolsschools vearsteachingin of years governmentschoolsgovernmentschools schoolteaching of sofapan Japan calls attention to the fact thatofapan that the disorders which accompanied the prepre vious attempt to hold an election andand which resulted in a postponement by thethe perfeclures perfecluresemperor were only in nine perfeetureselec and in thirtyfour perfectures the first elecinformation passed off quietly Our latest latcstinf01nainforma latcstinf01na tions from Japan shows that the hostilityhostility of the government and people pcopleto foreigners to foreignersis increasing The passports which wereverewere Christiangranted to missionaries to teach Christian ity have been discontinued and in orderorder mis to labor outside of the treaty ports missionaries must obtain passports on thethe ground of being teachers as formerlyformerly The prospect for a free field for missionmission ary labor lahorinin Japan is not encouraging yetyet the results of evangelistic labor arc very very hopeful and missionary labors should notnot be remitted even if the opportunities areare not as favorable as could be desired desiredI
reporting the fifth TriennialTriennial TrienniaReformed Synode lSnode Generate Officiate of the ReformedSrnode Churches of France held in July last atat Vigau gau a town of Gard in the CevennesCevennes Ceennesdistrict says On Sabbath an open airair mcetin meeting meeting was held at Mas de Guincttiic Guincttiicsscene cene ofr the service held during durin the lastlast wasscentury centur when the Reformed Church waswas ti11 the Church of the Desert still A crowdcrowd of 3000 or 4000 people assembled forfor worship the pastors standing in the oldold pulpit of the Desert Some of the preachpreach ers gave ga C prominence to the past others toto the present but all united in calling for inin creased evangelistic activity The need ofof StIch was shown by ML Soulier of Borsuch Bor hearddeaux who himself aa Cevanole had hearheard Youa Jesuit say to his congregation You see a white object you call it white but ifif the church tells you it is black you ou oughtought to say it is black And in the BordeauxBordeaux Cathedral he has heard the language TheThe men Father and the Son angry with menmenwold strike them if Man would back Mary ary kept not backtheir theIr arms You have but one RedeemerRedeemer RedeemerIary Such is Romanismat Mary homeRomanism at home Marv A WRITER
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1892 dlissionCard Topic for August 1892dJIissionCar1 d3IissionCard 3IissionCard THE TIIE HOME fricndsfriends thy friendsNome Board Home BoardII Go home to tl1 Lord and tell them how great things the Lordand 365 Missionaries 365bath done for thee hath organorgan baptisms 5274 Sundayschools organiS57 S5 1778517785 ized zed 342 teachers and pupils 17 oror wor 1 7 9 houses of worchurches constituted 179 Board ship hip built SO Receipts of the Home Board818119SS4S71198487110S4S7119 8487110 tbethe each State in theXccdsofcach TopicsXccdsofeacb Study tudy Topics StatcState Jome field Relations ofHome to StateHome of Missions Iissions and vice versa Maintenance ofAmerica missionlries Frontier Missions Americamissionaries infidelity for or Christ or for Romanism and infidelityBuildingBuilding Chapel Buildin-
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Vill 1892 he fraught with asas 1792 mighty missionary interests as 1792somewhere Is there a William Care Carer somewhereand ready reach to call us to fresh endeavor andIs there for thethe holy hole enterprise awakening Church of Christ a great awakeningwon Our hearts glow with woncoming whatder and admiration as we see what hundred God has wrought in the past hundredhea years but there are millions of heaof then still in darkness and the mass ofin the professing church still steeped inMiss Review apathy at home homefiss CB CC SBCHome Mission Board SSBC 5 Leaflet LeafletHome DD J S Felix D DG Prayer Pray er for the work and workers instiAmerican instiinsti 7 Questions uestions11 Are our b the attitude ofof tutions menaced by sentisenti Roman Catholicism 2 Is the sentiCon theobservanceof observance of a Conment towards the growingtinental Sabbath growing Onward go G H 354 S Hymnu Hymn ChapdChapel Need for Chapel9 Centennial report Building Fund Old Billys Contribution 10 Leaflet 4 Items
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has Dr J S Felix of Lynchburg Van hasHome the leaflet on the Homekindly contributed theleaflet the Board He has clearly shown that thepracicaltpractical Board as our agency is one of practicalsensiblesensIblet1d 1d multiform power Read his sensible iind and leat1eleaflet forcible and altogether admirable leafletIissionMission tPrice Price 3 cents Maryland Baptist Missionprice Old Bilhs Contribution Rooms story 2 cents is a bright and touching storyfor Ionthlv literature formost cleverly told Monthly ctsetsS cts Sets mission societies or church concerts Setsycaryear per Per quarter 30 cts per yearMaryland larlandlarland There is xo0 FREE literature at MarylandCentennialBaptist Mission Rooms save Centennial
certificates S S supplies of chapel cards certificatespro circulars and leaflets and the new proFor gram for Childrens Centennial Day Forcata general leaflet information send for catacencents logue price 6 centsSocieties Special pecial Notice to W M SocietiesSpecial by WomansomansWomans published omans free literature The workMissionary Union in aid of womans work Commit is sent in bulk to State Central Commitchapel tees also the centennial supplies of chapelnew cards certificates leaflets etc The newCom supplies just forwarded to Central ComReports mlittees consist of the Annual Reportsmittees general 1lission Prayer Cards and some generalMission Dr leaflet by DrCentennialleatlet leaflets also a new Centennial States F M1 Ellis Ladies in the different Statesconnected hether connecteddesiring the above whether to apply towith societies or not should appl with Committees their tleir own Central State Committeeswileueral reference will zvjiose whose w110se address for general of appear lappear from this date in the heading oflappear V M1 U Department of the Journal asas W Committee 4State State Literature CommitteeState Board Recommendations of Home BoardCCC nioll S B CTo Womans Missionary Union ba Atlanta May 18 2 as a baadopted at Atlanta11ay pre sis of Home Mission work for the prerear sent Conventional year Societies omant Mission Societies1 That Womans make make moneyed contributions through thethe Board for the support of missionaries andand elsetheir families on the frontier and else here where 2 That boxes of clothing and otherother useful articles be sent to frontier and otherother hoxesNumber of boxesboxes need needy missionaries needv sent 1ast last year Year 122 Value S677G44 Societies 3 That Womans Mission SocietiesCenten and Bands assist in collecting the Centennial offering of 125000 to he expended expendedjn chapel building an girls 4 That the Cuban School for girlsboarding and day school now thotho ounhly established continue to receive the oughly Qughlyestalished
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Home The following letter from the Homeof Board more fully explains the purport ofrecommendations the recommendations1lissiollan Union whenwhen To the Womans Missionary 1S9L1S9L 1592Ull1 661892convened cornerled in Atlanta May 61892 Yc arc deeply grateful toto Dear Sisters We theyOU have taken in thethe yOU for the interest you you work generous ork of Home Missions and the generouswe waid you have given gcn to it Year by year wehelphelp have ehae seen and felt your increasing licitthis Allow us at your annual meeting thisfew Centennial year to lay before you a fewyou can help in ourour Oursuggestions as to how you year work for the coming year c1othcloth 1 Your work of sending boxes of clothfron ing and other valuable articles to our fronaudand tier missionaries has brought help andmany homes There comes toto unshil1e to man sunshine one fitc a letter from oneme even as I write you are on have aided in which areof those yon 10 not know how we weI do these words en for thethe coulll have lived had it not been could IissionanMissionary Iissionan timely aid of the Womans Missionaryeenieeni seem the seemUnion Cniol God bless those sisters they needed to cd to know precisely what we neededed you will continue this help helphelpWee are sure you alike which has been twice blessed blessing alikeThe who receive Theand those whorectin those who give gieand of Board is gratified ratited to see that the value ofliashas the boxes sent to these missionaries hasG jiGjiG 07706776increased from 4411t last vcar car to 0770 rejoiced to see a-aathis year rear and we will be noccd coming yearyear similar increase during the comill hitherto meagre salaries the Board has hithertoThe Themcaresalaries endure been heen able to give these men who endureutterly such hardships for the gospel are utterlywith inadequate to supply their families withhahave ha such comforts as they the ought to haveThey furnish only enough to meet theirtheir women bare hare necessities If our Baptist womenthis throughout the South could turn in thisso direction a part of the money they sowe freely freeh contribute to the Lords work wewell are arc sure such an offering would be wellI was hungry lS hungrypleasing to him who said moremore more met Nowhere are there moreand ye fed me fruitful fruittul fields or larger returns for ourour mis sowing than those where our frontier missionaries labor now 2 The Cuban School for girls is nowtliorourlily established It is occupying a-aathoroughly house part of the building purchased for a house2525 a of worship comprising a space about highfeet wide by 120 long two stories high for and has good facilities for instruction fordormitory not less than 100 pupils vith dormitoryfor dining room and an culinary department forwhilethe 25 girls it is proposed to support while educationacquiring their education Baptist BaptitBrother J S Paine of Boston a Baptistvear cyery year brother who visits Havana everv to-
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usunl1y spending several weeks in the winusually win thoroughter in that city and who has thorough knowledge kllodcdge of our work there says sas in a-a-aainha done illin letter to us that nothing we have causeHavana Ilavana has so much advanced our cause naHavanain the estimation of the people of IHav Havana na HaananonnOTnon and especially of the classes of the 11011Cntholic population as the opening of this1Catholic Catholic this ift of 500 by an unknownschool The gift unknown contributor for its benefit corroboratescorroborates underThose who best under testimon this testimony it stand the feelings of the people towards itlong before this schoolschool think it will not be lOll To can IMJ made entirely self supporting Tore reach this point of selfsupport will rere quire that it be made equal in every rethe spect to the best Catholic schools in thecity and this will demand an increase ofof pre teachers and an enlargement of its pretechers knowledgesent ent facilities for imparting knowledge con We shall be grateful if our sisters will congood tinue their contributions to this goodCuhaCuba and others from Cubawork Brother Diaz an no who will attend the Convention will noschool douht speak to you about this schooldoubt proposed3a It is known to you thatt it is proposed 125125 S125 durin the Centennial year S125to collect during heleOoO le ll for the Home Mission Board to bein expended in houses of worship needed inimim our mission fields There is no more imthis portant fortant part of our work than thischurches There are more than a thousand churchesBap within the territory of the Southern Bapof tist Convention which have no houses ofour worship In Oklahoma few if any of ourworship churches have houses in which to worship8choolschool and they are compelled to use schoolwinter hOllses and private dwellings in winterhouses temples while the groves Gods first templessum furnish them places of meeting in the sum1
mer merWe entertoenterenter toenter sisters to oursisters Ye should he glad for our We an Already Alrend anhearti1 into this movement heartily hashas planlwsplanlws ndl11irihle plan the Chapel Card plan admirable of heen adopted and placed in the hands ofbeen workyour Board for execution The good work of is begun and we hope for a liberal part ofSo the sum to be raised from our Ladies Soour cieties and the Sundayschools of ourchurches Your brother in Christ 1
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Cuba Prayer for Cubain Much Mitch Iuch has been said about the work inprogresprogress Cuha and it has made rapid progressCuba preachpreach owin owing to the persistent efficient preachmissioning of the gospel by the faithful mission directed aries who ho have been upheld and directedimbued They The are imbuedby the Holy Spirit truthful with a simple childlike faith the truthfulsee ness of which is delightful to seethe Prom the time of the conversion of theFrom exercisefirst one it became necessary to exercise first firt OIl the part of fnith fJith atH1 faith and belief in prayer on
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re realize the valueeach individual We aInevalue of a concerted effort when any religiousreligious an reliCYiousawakening is desired Neither do awakening v undo we un dervalue dennlue good music or a strong chorus chorus-
Butor the assistance of an evangelist eancreIist But brother Diaz had no such advantagesdantaOesadvantages dantaOes
when he undertook this work He hadhad wasthe consciousness within him that he was wasright and entered into the work heart andand is soul leaving the results to Him who iswholeahle to save to the uttermost The whole able able reliance of these people is upon God TheirTheir their faith in prayer is unbounded and and theirtheirBibles are the guide and comfort of theirtheir lives They are full of praise and thankfthank fulness and ulness to God for this care over them andcrowned crol1edthe success with which He has crownedpeople their efforts and also those of His peoplewho have been instrumental in carryingcarrying who con concon on the grand work Theirs is a life of conthey tinual privation and selfdenial and theypeopJepeople appreciate any sacrifice that Gods peopleon make to send them the means to help onall tlle the spread of the gospel But above allhopeful do they appreciate the fervent hopefulpeople prayer in their behalf of His peoplebewherever they may be this us not forget during thisTherefore let us sac centenninl year centennial ear when we are making sacevery eerveerv rifices for the cause of missions everythat where to add our earnest prayers thatcom they may be strengthened quieted comefforts forted and upheld and that their effortsforted than may be crowned with greater success thanHavana HmanaGertrudge Jocrg HavanabeforeGertrudge cver before ever Cuba Cuba Day Centennial Childrens Daywhatrealize what begun to yet have not the a mighty force for good the children oi thewait ma become at once without waitland may vet havehave tile shall be grown Nor yet haeing till they them we begun to estimate the value to thememployedselves of having their energies employed schrs time in right directions at the critical timediggingwhen streams of character are digging perma out channels which will become permamostnent highways for the traffic of most purposesfreight lifea thought purposes precious freightlires has actions Gods universal providence hasinfluence placed women at this point of influencere His especial direction has thrown large reMissionary1ssionaryomans Missionary sponsibility upon Womans callcall Union Pnioll S B C Shall we heed Gods callYe We
and and promptly answer with heart andstrength mind and strengthmanyThe Centennial appeals to us with many The the this is the latest perhaps not thevoices voicesthis oicesthis oicesthis Couldlast A Centennial Childrens Day Could last we get up a general interest based on aaa-pruetteal understanding of its purpose I-IIpractical observancobservance obsenancebelieve betiee there is no Centennial obserVancits ethat that could be more far reaching in itsthat this character And we women can create this-
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and ready to give liberally to hasten it-it opportu interest as none others have the opportuon when in faith with works they doo it we ought oughtnity nit of doing If we can dp the praypravpmprav pm stilIstill no we must do it expectantly for the spread of the gospelbetter stilldo it itbetter gosptto do gospel itno proposed and go to spread it Can our lahorlet us rejoice to do it What is proposedlaborlaborlabor BrieR Octobercease to pay through countless agesAs the 2nd of OctoeBriefly October this ages of It is the Masters work it is a solemn1S92 solemn rlS2 is the one hundredth anniversary ofKettering work the leader will have in herthe first missionary meeting in Ketteringher occasion hands pliable little souls and she canEngland it is deemed a fitting occasioncan for a grand rally of the SundayschoolsSundayschools mould them into almost any thing she dede sires The ideal mission band is the stepin all over the land making them feel an instep theping stone for the children into thechurch timate and personal connection with the thechurchping A suitable procentennial movement pro an influence can be thrown around themthem adornedgram a really beautiful souvenir adorned there which will teach them while workwork with a series of pictures illustrative ofof ing to save the souls of the heathen thatthat Vm m Careys life containing Win exercises containin full exercisesVm their own souls must be saved also CanCan for the day consisting of original and sese Thewe compute the worth of a soul TheThe etc lected hymns scriptures recitations etcdear Master considered it worth his preprcpre be cious life So the souls of the heathenhas been prepared This program will beheathen supplied free to all schools for everyfind of our fallen brothers in this landevery land Ccrr- and Cen on condition that a Cendue in our eyes But thescholar a copy should be of value copyn the tennial collection for Home and ForeignForeign souls of our own little ones are dearer toto 1Iissions be taken upand the Chapel CardMissions Card us still and for their sakes we want inin plan urged and cards distributeddistributed all our churches successful mission bandsbands bansemA general public sentiment must be crecrcGacre Mrs JlJIrs Win 11 Baker Atlanta Ga ated in favor of this work Public sentisenti ment is mae made up of aggregate individualindividual uThe following cxt cxThe mission extracts from a missionmissioopinion What does every reader of thisthis uunarys ary immediateinimediatearys show letter the urgent immediate tarys feasi article think of the importance and feasibuildinneed for church buildings buildin on the frontierfrontier bility of this plan If approving of itit Do you require furtherincentive making-ssfor making ftirtheriiv furtherincer1tiefrmnkincfurtherincer1tiefrmnkin make its results the subject of your pray praypraycollections ChapelChapel ollections on our Home Mission Chapeers from now till Sunday October 2nd2nd HnEnHn Cards lCards131 Cards131Cards131 your mir conversationMake 1lake it the topic of your conversation judiciously selecting the time at home andand There arc possibly twelve Baptist churchchurch abroad from now till then Let the childchild houses in Oklahoma At Columbia thethe ren in your homes bands SundayschoolSundayschool Sundaschoolcchurch worships in a school house whichwhich classes lasses understand about it and prpre and be prepr cannot hold onehalf the even congregation evenpared to heartily enter into it by speciallyspecially sptciatlyin winter It is a positive necessity toto working from this time on with theirthctheir build at once I do not know where theythey thc Chapel cards that the they may have an offeroffer of1rwill raise the money mone work but it is Gods working to report How happy and proud proudand Ind we shall trust him and push on AtAttteach child chil will le to have a contributioncontribution Mtt Olive the same state of things existsexists make on the childrens special day Iftoomake badlyIf At Crescent City we need a house badly 1t IS a new observance for us at the Southtoit is South Here they totheymeet meet in a ballroom Just to let us hail it as the beginning of a newncwnew full think of meeting where the devil had fulciI era of united activih activity where activityactivitactivity activit of sway lsway and to hear the young people talk ofcounts for mostlm01ig most amongg the children children- bebe the times they the had last night You cannotcannot j cause they will have ha e the longest time inin diffi difiimagine in your eastern homes the diffwhich to exercise it Alice Armstrong iculties culties under which we labor trying tocu1tics it1lice to NOTE The programs pro ranmsarealreadyprinted are alreah already printedranmsarealreadyprintedprinted preach the gospel in dugouts sod houses pintcdhousesand sample copies will be sent free on apap re need a-aaor in groves or under a tree We plication to Maryland Baptist Mission 1IissionMissionhouse hadh badly at Orlando Other denominadenomina Rooms tions are pushing their work and makingmaking their congregations comfortable I havehave hmethcyhad lad houses closed against me because theythey Mission BandsBands did not want Baptist doctrine preached preachedThis means work Oh yes YCS dear sissis or Baptist interests to get a start in theirtheir ters it does mean work and timeand time andtimeandand town A hayshed furnished me a place toto workad thought and prayerbut one Baptist church In a six milprayer but there is nothoughtand no mil organize one other work that will pay so well A mismis lion acre district there is not a churchchurch sion SIOn band leader says of her work would It is-is house There are thousands who wouldpaving tpdayjn paying tday in the growth in charactercharacter go to church if there was one to attendattend which we see in those we are striving toto they stay away and are lost Almost in thethe train it will pay tomorrow whenwhen centre of enlightened America here is thisthis through this early training they shall bebe territory comprising 64890 square milesmilesmiles quick to attend to the Kings business with 73000 inhabitants and not over one
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BarkingBarking A dog which was hitched to a lawnlawn man mower stopped pulling to bark at a manboywho was passing close to him The boy Dont who was guiding the mower said H Dontexisjllst just barking for an ex mind the dog he is to cuse to rest It is easier to bark than tomachine pull this machinepull cannot A man must do something he cannotcan utterly stagnate He can pull or he canpull bark but it is easier to bark than to pullhark inHarking costs no care faultfinding in Barking The man whowho volves no responsibilty who ke mistakes the man whomake may ftW works uta maywpun to may pull wrong and be obliged topulls mayw but acknowlcdge and correct his wrong butacknowledge bobo bow the man who keeps up a perpetual bownothing wow has nothing to rectify nothingregret to acknowledge and nothing to regretbrains easy to bark It costs neither brainsIt is cas one nor muscle thought nor prayer Xo onewb1rk towb1rk re bark It reneed to lie awake nights to no quires no watchfulness no anxiety nobehebe Barking can besense of responsibility and done at odd moments it can be begun anddis an can disended at any an convenient time and it turb disquiet and hinder as much as if itisis were really more important than it isvery much Beside a very Beside er small dog can do as muchinto barking as a big one and bark himself intothatnotice and notoriety when a big dog that unnoticed unnoticcdwas quietly pulling would be unnoticedforgotten and lnd forgotten-
SWITCHGIVINGMISSIONARY SWITCHGIVING LYLE U liv ELL LYLEin mae inVhcn the appeals for help were made When out our church for the destitute people outhustledbustledrest the Ladies Aid Society bustled West been round to finish the quilt that had beenbe dragging along since last winter and beand rgan an to collect donations of money andtwotwo givetwodgictwodclothing I had no money to give everyevery was bracelet dollars ollars for a bangle letcent I owned but I asked mother to let ownedbut was me send my cucumber dress and she wasThewilling It was a frightful thing The yel cucumbersyel cucumbers yelfigures were goodsized cucumbersyellbrightlowish owish grecngoing green going to seed on a bright Besides there was a-aapurple background jaggedand a jagged elbow darned hole in one darned up place in the other one so I hunted upwishedwished one anyone any case am in some new pieces to mend men it
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Now you can understand how glad III-Now was to see the dress go in the box thatthat parsonagewas being packed at the parsonage parsonaYerest Mother Iother was there helping with the restrstof the ladies and I was wanted to go onon an errand It seems that Mrs and Irs Lane andlastIrs Edwards were not Mrs notout last out to church lastSunday and possibly did not know of thethe downmovement on foot I was to walk downdown movement any and see if they had anyto Poplar Row an thing to contributecontribute IrMr Mrs Ir frs Lane was not at home but MrisLane was working in his garden He is al1all a nice old man but very deaf so for allhehemy screaming out what I came for he my villageunderstood that somebody in our village toto was starving and wanted something toBefore I knew whatwhat cook immediately an he was about he ran and picked off anthrustingimmense crooknecked squash thrusting totoit in my arms saying sain that he meant to rather county fair but hed rathersave it for the countfair had give it to the Lord that the best he hadYasntWasnt forthe the Almighty Wasntwasnt too good for lug it sweet in him I thanked him and lugthe ged it off determined to have it go in theway box if it dried up on the way1 rs EdEd I y arms ached by the time Mrs My bvby wards door was reached She lives byEd Ed herself with a parrot I told Mrs Edforfor wards who I was and what I came fordonthI dontbdont her head and said but she shook herhead sent believe elieve in giving Misfortunes are sentthe for our good and we mustnt fly in thepeople face of Providence by providing peoplewith with mercies that have been wisely withI-
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them held from themtrash Did you ever hear such religious trashstingi She was trying to sugarice plain stingithe it was enough to make theness and it her squash in my lap rise up and reprove herover Irs Edwards walked overPretty soon Mrs to to a large chest of drawers and began toaatoss things about until she drew out a-a5some Here is some111a11 small brownpaper parcel saidthing that is no earthly good she said departunrolling it Tell the ladies that I depart itfrom principle in giving it but I do it out and what did she take outcheerfully cheerfullyand she but a rustycolored hair switch which sheeyes dangled before my eyesI didnt feel in the least like laughing III-missionaryneeded a missionary weneced only thought how we switch here in Beechwood as I said If the switchof iis no earthly good what is the use ofitit giving giing itEdwardsThe switch answered Mrs Edwards aa-is a small weak thing but I can ask a great blessing blessing on it and who knows the greattliscthisthisgood that may be accomplished by this good g1ftgift My ly humble giftconsecrated offering onsecrated fruitfruit may bear much fruitopopop If a squash could blush here was an op thethefor the hand my mv held out I portunity portunity to deliver it andand HhumbJeWgift hurablegift hurablegift promisingto huiublegift 0
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The ladies were waiting when I went ilinin lwith The called Mrr Lane 111Y treasures They with my Lanea dear old soul and other nice namesnamesnames hut every horrid true thing they saidbut sailsaid lrs Edwards was a stab at melabout Mrs me about thc didnt know it All I hut of course they but saiel here the moneymoney said when they asked where given by Ononeonccnme came from was that it was gcn one eof relatives of Mrs lrs Edwards relativesI dont believe a word of Mrs Irs ElwardstEdwardsEdwards Our goodfornothing gifts theology heology giflgiftswont be accepted when we have betterbetter Swont wont blessingones to offer and as for asking a blessing dowonder wonder how the Lord canon rubbish I do can stand it Mr the lr Lanes gift was made in thelr8 Edwardstrue missionary spirit but Mrs Edwards is an awful example of what we shall allall se1fihlcome to if wec dont see our own selfishselfish ness e5S After this when I give anything I shall say to myself Is this switchgiving switchgivingfor I have been a switchgiver quite tonglonglong lonenough Times Abridged from S S TizziesIkgenoughAbridged TimenoughAbridged
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case less casethe Before I reached the parsonage thesat squash grew so fearfully heavy that I satrest Ir Dares stone wall to restdown on Mr peoplesand gave myself up to thoughts of peoples meai1l1ess All at once something camecame meanness cold into my head that made me grow coldthinkYOU think dayand and what ddo you it was a hot day was the meanness off the girlgirl it was It was was sitting on the stone wall Here I wasgivingholding on to a twodollar bill and giving the a frightful old dud that I hated to the-
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sinccNumber of societies organized 509 amount reported to H Cousin George sincesince April 15 1892 80737 Send money Tuppertate treasurer or to Rev H A Tupper utoner to your State D P 0 Box 134 Richmond Va Re D DP Geo Braxton Taylor Cousina and reports Cousin reports to Rev Ga George Macon Ga111 ill be sent free to any Hints will Sunbeam Constitutions and un am one willing to undertake the See ot a Sunbeam society upon application tr Cousin George Seeorganization ota
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MissionaryHSunbeam Missionary KOLLHONOR ROLL ONOR ROLLThe following Sunbeams and mis an Sunbeam Societies have contributed to support a missionary to be known as the Sunbeam Missionary Fourth St Richmond Vaa 50050U500 Two Sunbeams 10 Sundayschool Sunbeam Society 1st ch Macon Ga Sun 10 SunIstch beams Houston Vaa 3 Sunbeams Marion Vaa 55- Lula Whilden Sunbeams CitadelCitadel Sq Charleston S C 9 Druington V Vaa Sunbeams 20 Enon Sunbeams Ochre Va 5 Xewberry S C Sunbeams 25 Greensboro Ga Sunbeams Sun 10 Pruitt Sunbeams Milledgeville Ga 1S5 Lottie Moon Ioon Sunbeams Hampton Vaa 5 Hopkins Hopkinsille Ky ville K Sunbeams 10 Hepzibah Ga Sunbeams 1 Upper Essex Va Sunbeams 355 Longtown Sunbeams S C 118 Tuskegee Ala Sunbeams 10 Total 13603 13603The Carey Sunbeams Enoree Baptist ch Greenville county SC S C agree to give theirtheir contributions for the rest of the year to the Sunbeam Missionary The Renfroe SunSun beams Southside church Birmingham Ala 1a will give onehalf of all they Cen Cethe raise this Centennial ntennialyear tennialyear year to the same object
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Brewton Ala 2220 Fiftysix members Trying to fill out 3 chapel cardscards carscars Soutb Anna Sunbeams Va South Mis llisSent S31 31 as a Centennial offeringo t Foreign Missions Yhilden hilden Sunbeams Citadel Sq ch Charleston S C Lula Whilden to Hope 651 H
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better after vacation Pruitt Sunbeams Milledgeville Ga 5iO Who vncntiolJPruitt Who is to bebe SunbeamMissionary Missionary the Sunbeam Lottie Moon oon Sunbeams Hampton Va 5 for ChapelChapel ChapKuiul Fork Union Va Sunbeams Fund elFulH1Fork We hope to accomplish somethil1YFulH1Fork 310 somethingsomething with the Hopkinsvillc Ky tlC chapel cards K Ky Sunbeams S25 25 Of this 15 was givengiesgiven some omc time ago but never reported The talent plan has worked well One little girl inin two months made 99 cents from one penny Ve have revised ourHouston Va We pennyHouston our roll and have ninety sunbeams None of our contributions have ever gone to anyany thing except mission work A Virginia Sunbeam writes I see in the SunbeamSunbeam Dots flots hots some of the Societies pledge all they collect during the year to the support of thethe Sunbeam Missionary Is this right My Iy idea is that all Centennial offerings should bebe an additional offering to the regular ones The North Edgefield Sunbeams TennTenn A new society has been organized at Scotland Neck N C withhavc reorganized have with members fiftyone membersTaylors Taylors Bridge X C Mt Ve have fortyft Gilead Sunbams We forty one members Average cragc attendance thirtyone St Stephens Vaa Sunbeams havehave raised 00 during the past year towards the education of a girl in Madero adero Institute InstituteFirst Baptist Sunbeams Lexington Ky 150 Suspended work for the summersummer Hope to do better work than ever next winterBuchannn winter Ve hope to send We Buchanan Va senda contribution to the Sunbeam Missionary Barnwell S C Not ot longlong 2333 ago the Sunbeam Society was merged into the Sundayschool Each class is named forfor classs a missionary it it 10 of this amount was gained by trading with a fewAbout S10 few nickels One industrious young girl increased her nickel to about 6 Sun Bethel Sunbeams Barnett Va Green Springs Sunbeams Ala la Renfroe SunSun 250 670 670Renfroe beams Southside church Birmingham Ala la II We have given since our last report 14 14150 150 During the coming year this society pledges half its funds to the SunbeaSunbeamSunbeam Newberry S C 32 These Sunbeams besides helping as to the SunMissionary mlis5ioJ1aryXewherry Sun mMissionaryNewberry lis5ioJ1aryXewherry beam Missionary lissionar are at work also on the chapel cards They recently gave a missionmission ary afternoon reception which was very successful Biloxi Miss divided iss 415 dividedce1cele between Home and Foreign Ia Missions Enterprise Ala ForeignMissions 1050 This society celeIissionsEncerprise ehratcd Tuskegee Ala This anniversary successfully brated Wm Careys 100th anlliYersar 3236 ThissuccessfulJTuskegee 1issionary10 for the Sunbeam MissionaryMissionary is for the first and second quarters of 1S92 do
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RULE OF THE BOARD peelwiAppeals of missionaries for pecuni or pecuniSpecial Contributions BoRDAppeals ContributionsRcLE of jects for which the Board make appropriappropri arv 1ryaid aid for work ary ork for their field must be for objects b the Board ations Thus the missionamissiona 1ioI1s unless permission to the gren by tz contrary be given are mar inar assist the Board also who areassisting to maintain their own work may ries neSt while IlSSIStl11rt treasurvtreasurytreasury pledged for its sUPIJort support and must support itt whether they have funds in the treasurv not1or notnot1 not
the Form of Bequest BequestII hereby give and bequeath to the Foreign Mission Board of theap a act apSouthem Baptist Convention chartered by the Legislature of Virginia by an Southern money or description ofotofot of In money proyed February 23d 1SSS here insert the amount if in proved Boarduther property real or personal for the purposes contemplated by said Board other RERENotieet Xntict to Contributors Notice PLEASE NOTIFY IF RECEIPTS ARE NOT PROMPTLY RE ContrihntoriPLEASE fAILMAIL fAICEIVED CHIVED EIED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AS THEY ARE INVARIABLY SENT BY RETURN MAI-
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MISSIONSlIISSIONSLRECEIPTS RECEIPTS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS 18921S92 From June 15th to Julv loth 1S92PIom 150 By WV B Crunipton C-CCIis Alccsta Quarles S150 ALAlUMAiL B S Town Creek ch by Miss ALAIitMAL ALAHUIL C S of which 1181180 SIM S1S11 tA1l17 Midway ch by T II Stout 300 By WyVYnB Crunipton 1I InstituteMadero InsbttelInstitute 0trIr Zacatecas SlO S Gnl for Centennial sqG for eirl in 10 for Chapel Fund SS691 Cussetaltn Cadets Cusseta 403 Cusseta S S 77oJ5 YounK S1S3JI lo3 Bv J M VernonCusscta ch o3 SunSunlSun Irs Alice Johnson for Sundi 03 cent Selfdenial fund 2LG North Brewton Sunbeams by Mr fun of B1BiBir Missionary for T Hood lCClm Irs J earn CClm Cam Missionary S 2 L F M1 S Woodlawn ch by Mrs S
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illiams G40 Tuscaloosa Sunbeams by 515 Montevallo ch by T J Williams Shaw of Cuba SSSS for Chapel Fund 1225 Miss Laura ShaofCuhn Fund53 Total41933 reported year 03152Athi 63152SG315S211M9 Previouslj 03152 SG315 21219 Total this ARKANSAS By J D Searcy V P ARKXSASDy ARKANStsBy RKANSAS 1555 By S WV Cochrnn Union 10 Total 25555552555 555 1GG2Scnr 166281GG2S 1G8GPreviously reported 14073 Total this 3car GEORGIADuffy GEORGIA Dufly St ch Savannah by Norton orton Frierson 3058 W M1 Sot 1st ch Atlanta GEORGfDutrv EORGfDutrv Atlantairl 77 By J G Gibson C S exican girl rs J H Gohsmith for Mexican of which 255 for Miss b y Mrs i1berry W M1 S Hak1l1ille ch 11by Mrs Irs E C Glovcr Tr for Japan 544 By 1iss B Miss Ilarniony Grove S S for Chapel Fund AS5 By Mrs Irs M1 COn1elius S S-SSEva Thurman of Hannon 55tHl eh ROUle for Italy Chinese 1islion SS2nd nd ch Rome for Chapel Fund 5 W M1 S 2nd 11 1 A S S Hulse for Rio ch Zehulon ch by MrsS 1st ch Augusta by Miss liss Katie 30 L lrsMrs lrs SO Hephzibah 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H3303Brazil bby F M1 Ellis 300 Total 363303 Previously reported 71472 Total this ycar Previouslj Prcviously 107772Mear 107772 107772IO7lIlMISSISSIPPI lIlssIsSIpplScranton MississippiScranton ISSISSIPPI ssIsSIpplScranton Scranton ch hbv WY R Washington 387 By Geo Whittleld and famil family ClinClin 11 Carter ton 7 Starkville ch by G 1L 45 Peach Creek Sunbeams bv Miss 045 1is Etta Jackson 4 Total 2132132132 13 Previously reported 12410 Total this year 14542M11511454214542 1 MISSOURI MlssouRIBy ISSOURI By A E Rogers Tr of which 31740 from WV M1 S designated as folloitsIISSOlRIBy followfollows follotssSS510 5 for Chapel Fund SS510 for Maggie Rice Memorial 5 for Italy S8510 5 for ur North China 010 Ital 1iss Youngs School for Miss which 8350 from W M S deigof 52772 By A E Rogers Tr lot ofwhich doigdoig desiguated as follows mlted rated 3130 for Maggie Rice Memorial 7 for Miss Iiss McMinn 15 for pupil in Mis1isMiss 1is sYoungs Youngs School and 2480 for Centennial Fund Yuungs 19091 Total 72403 724637240371n3P7 7Previously redously reported 16354 Total this year SS817 SS817N-7 XORTII NORTH ORTH CAROLINA CAROLINAWW M1 S Shelby ch bv Miss tiss Fannie 3G Two little girlsgirls annit Barnett Tr 235 of Charlotte S S by I W Durham for Chapel Fund 10 Total 123513iP1235 Previously reported 1920 Total this 3155Orciously thi year 3155N3155 NORTH WESTERN COxvE CONVENTION ORTII ORTH RTII CAROLINA CROLIXESTERX By A II Cobb Tr NTIONlly 1980CoxnxTIoiBv 1US1980 OPreiouly reported 13000 Total this year Previously 15040S150401501015040 t SotTH OUTH CAROLINA SOlTII 1 t Providence ch bv H Moore CROLlxPrOidence AO Mt SapochIoort Tr 240 Sapoch RSapoch Paron ch bv E HRSapochTr 5 Holly Grove ch by J P MayTr May Iay Tr 250O Beulah ch by Stephen Crosby Tr 1150150450450 Bethel ch by M R Gunter 300 i0 Ridge Asson by J A Canon Mt 10 By N S Reeve ReeveMt Pisgah ch 110 Enon ch 175 By D WV Key Kc 5 Williaton ch RoseKeytilliston or Centennial 525 UoeKoeKoe mary ch 287 Oak Grove S 9 2 Cool BranchS S by J 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