ALEFOREIGN MISSION JOURNALFOREIGN JOURN- AL JOURN JOURNAL Vol XXIV September 1892 No 22-2xXIvSeptember 1892No EMBARRASSMENTS AND DISCOURAGEMENTS DISCOURAGEMENTSCorres An honored brother from South Carolina writing to the CorresTruly our Centennial of missions seems toto ponding Secretary says
ith it embarrassments and discouragements that will keep usus bring with rearsyears rears fronl forgetting or undervaluing those experienced a hundred yearsfrom oe prove ourselves worthy successors of those wise andand ago May we men111en noblemennoble 111enoblemen nThe friends The centennial year Year has indeed brought to the Board and its friendsvery serious embarrassments and discouragements The intenseintense countrycountrrcountrr political excitement which exists all over our southern country serious one and is doing bitter feeling and seriousproducing as it has done is con not conalienations between neighbors and even church members hieh mustmust ducive to spirituality and to that sort of thoughtfulness which kingdom kingdonlie back of any great work in the extension of the Lords kingdomresources Crcsar is receiving too much of the time attention and resourcesCiasar lCsar they even of the Lords people this year and there is danger that theyThenThen ill forget to will render to God the things that are Gods effects of lastlast ngain our people are laboring under the depressing again 10 for farm proprices pro low places and year meagre crops in some years money moneyfducts in all places There has been a most severe and crushing moneyknownknovnaI11ine in the South and the people have in many cases not known famine not here their daily bread was to come from And most of us have notwhere the yet vet learned how to consider theliliesof the lilies off the field nor to behold thethe fowls ovls of the air as we ought and are afraid to try the plan of thethatvida who cast into the Lords treasury all her living and by that widow act cast herself on GodGod discourage These things would seem to be enough to embarrass and discourageforwardforward the board and the friends of missions in their proposed forvard1us 110yement movement But if possible still worse things have come upon usandsickness and As perhaps never before in the thehistory history of our Board have and threatened breakdown invaded the ranks of our missionaries andconforced them to come home for rest Others have been forced by con permanently seielltious convictions to resign either temporarily or permanentlyscientious from The brethrcn of the Board have been made to groan in spirit as fro-
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tl1USmust one field after another have come tidings that this missionary mustgoodcome tcotne home and rest or break down and be lost to the work for good cone orrecuperate or or that that one has already broken down and must yorkworkgive gie up all hope of future work for These facts added to those already mentioned seem enough fortrvtrytryitry Yet other things have come upon us even more trv one year Year But yet yearthis year chosen vealhave veal YearHonored and trusted brethren uCT still ing b deter1deterdeter Convention had in assembled hosts yhen our of leaders when the plane 11ined to try to bring the denomination at large up to a higher planemined ad of working and giving for the extention of Christs kingdom to adutteranceork and in so doing to give utterance new plans of work vance and enforce 11e the hich tend to shake the confidence of theto charges and insinuations which ye entrustedbeen entrusted ho who have ha of brethren in the wisdom and prudence those againsthich have been made against yith the work The sweeping charges which with manymany 11H111 of effect ect 11H1on the Board and its work have necessarily produced this investi ho have heard them but have no opportunity to investi11brethren who brethren been A feeling of suspicious unrest has beengate their correctness men 111emany bosoms concerning the work while many menawakened in main avakened awakened up nvho have sought excuses for not giving to it have caught upwho and the unguarded statements of the advocates of a new departure andseemsn1catilnII seems have magnified them into far more than they really meant adoptcdadopted ho want ant new methods of missions adopteda pity that the brethren who hethehe the 50 Year to sow could not have lave waited until after our Centennial year awakeningere just awakening 111 the minds of those who were If seeds of distrust in these But all theseof in Lord kingdom our the to larger and better doing year embarrassments are upon us and upon us in the Centennial yearthere chance therechancethercand wee must face them They have not come by chancetherc perpcrbeen per They have is no chance in the kingdom of our Lord thcthell1itted to come upon us just now no for some good and wise purpose the mitted vhich may God enable us to see and appreciatewhich appreciate God call for an humbling of ourselves before GodCertainly these things and a confession of our weakness and insufficiency preparatory to a-aagracegrace might crying to him for the manifestation of his power and bracemighty subsubsub The call upon us for renewed consecration of ourselves and our stibTheyeall Thecall heye may be stance to the work that when others fail and fall back we nut beforready to close up our ranks and move onward They call upon us for vhowho patience and the exercise of brotherly kindness towards brethren whoare may seem to us to be all awry in their views and plans and who aretnay vhowhoyet earnest and true men Yea and patience even with those who evcnevcn sake or may seem to us to be opposers of the work orcYClorcYCl1 sakeorcvcnork for opposition sakeorcvcn Ina 1from more unworthy from motives ullvorth motivesdis May Ia Avec indeed in the midst of all these embarrassments and disauc and couragements courgements prove ourselves worthy successors of those wise W-
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whose hosc deeds wec celebrate in the Centennial May Ye haveIay we have the same sublime trust in God the same patient endurance of evils the thesame calm determination to move forward in Christs work the samesame smetthorough horough consecration of self and selfs all to the Lord Then shallshallshall the of Lord glory and behold e the see the manifestation of hiswe his hitove try to power spocr A Red sea of difficulties seems to roll before us as we ork and from some even of the leaders ofadvance in our appointed work of the host come words of doubt and despondency yet above all the tutu of sounds it seems to us that the clear tones ofmult and confusion of of Forward let us go and as asour God are heard saying Go forward ill the way open before us and the pillarsurely as with ith Israel of old will pillar aneyof cloud lead us Let every man of the Lord gird up his loins anewanew forvardforward and prepare to go forwardnoble men
AFRICA APPEAL FOR AFRICAIItt is important that a man and wife should go to Lagos on thethe hold coast of Africa where brother C C Newton with his family is holdofhile he and they are needing rest and change of ing the fort alone while Abbeokuta Abbeokutainterior stations three of each the And clinlate climate at LUlllLumA vyav there is only one family Brethren LuniLum Ogbomoshaw and Awyaw Ogbonl0shay each hIe and Pinnock at the first and third stations respectively eachbley ofC Smith them E help Brother of needs a man and wife sent to vifewife Please hurry up and send a man and his wifeOgbomoshaw writes Ogbomoshtv Ve dont want to stay hereWe here to he with us here at Ogbomoshaw ofill come will who South Each of the in all alone Is there no one troublesthese consecrated men of God in telling of the hardness and troubles vritespatheticaIIypatheticallyvritespatheticaIIy pathetically of his field while hile each has a brave hopeful spirit writes usfor us Do beg the brethren to pray prayandBut all can prayand All11 cannot go to Africa to be missionaries Will not our peopeo send missionaries with all can give frye something to sen yhowhohim for selfdenial who of ple test more profoundly the blessedness lived licd and died for us 11
BEST DO YOUR BESTelubarrassembarrasshave elsewhere alluded to some of the very serious embarrass Ofof ments with which our Board has been met in this centennial year oftosufficient to importance of hich wee think missions There is another which IIIissions and It is the smallness of our receipts andmerit a separate treatment the hea y indebtedness early in thethe consequent consequen t accumulation of a heavy overover of debt a ear fiscal fscal year The Board brought over from last year the ever since theweek by week S larger hich has grown 1G000 a sum which 16000 the uly 15th when thel1a 1st to July Consider from May opening of the year COl1siderfrom thethe made up OUIUAL were accounts for publication in the August JOURNAL Vec
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added How 0 littlc 1110re has heen addedhad bcn only 902450 II HeHe the to refcrring by seen nlonth luay be succeedinmonth during the succeeding 1such ork suchwork of this issue In the conduct of a eipts tJ 11of cntrustedentrustedt state of things fUust necessarily greatly ell1barrass those cntrusted ahallCe1ahallCe ork and drive thelll to call a halt in their advancevith the work with vith movementmovementtt111ovel11en 11ovel11en the Hoy How is this state of things to be remedied and the treasury of thelaUlentlamentlaUlent and times crying hard Certainly not by Lord replenished orNor or ing our inability to do great things for the relief of the Board Norgrea treat-ttvill the rClnedy be found in kUl1cnting the inditTerence of the treat will vill wayway yaymass luass of our people That does not increase receipts The best yay the in vhich you reader can help the cause is to do your hest under thevcryhe veryvcry Your gift lua nlav not be large indeed it nlay cirCUll1stances circumstances nU11nU111 small yet it vill help to bring about a better state of things A numtogether1her her ber may Inay be 1110ved to do their best and all these gifts cOluing together eyereyer everyork you lIavc would vould relicre the trouble and help forvard the vould many-Y very UHll1 many The yery best of yery no lone your best for this cause Do it now done press done at once for the need is pressbedone is sorely needed And let that best be isn1is n1iforeign ill is ing Let each reader of the jouinN1I ovuxI do his or her best for urated inau gurated inauguratethin g s will w ill bhe inaugurated ee- tt er Sstate tat e of things andd a bhetter ssions sions slons rlJht r17ht 11011 an Lreceipts receipts
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seemedshort tin1e since YC received a letter fron1 a brother vhich seemed anyas an J OLRL It to us to offer a good subject for an article in the JOURNAL Titwritwrit Tit ll1issions and for intensely practical lettcr about practical vork YcYc Weho had done the kind of york he Tote about We ten by a l11an who character th characterreplied stating our intention to yrite on the subject With GodGod yill the circular modesty write have to rite You isticmodesty he relied istic f AndAndAnd rite or speak Inade made 11Ie big and strong to york and not to write we-C we hocyer rite ve did intend to yrite it Yhel1 the till1e caUle to write bet as a betread oyer the brothers first letter and concluding that it was de ter article than ve could vrite and 1110re calculated to do good debrcthbrethbrcth Ve cided to print it We vould call the special attention of our lay deled Southren to it It is the utterance of one of the busiest men in our South tryill try ern country Vhat he has done others can do Vl1o will A
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you I am terribly interested in missions and hope you will pardon me for writing youriskrisk will I in run the and making suggestions hut it is my heart to do it and the I am afraid our people are looking too much for the large contributions from theforfor year wealthy and if that is true it will bee a failure This has been the hardest eleveneleven Taising raising money in our church for missions since I have been a melnber of it about his Vhen one of the brethren cut his subscription down to less than balf of hisyears Lordformer gifts I was sick at heart but I made up my mind I would make it up if the Lord spared my lif and I ant happy to say our church will give the largest subscription this
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nssociational sociational year ever given in its history historycertainly certainly since I knew anything about itssoeiational it lilc it may not go much over last year it will go over Now While While ow this has been accom accomphshed plished pshed by the one two three five and ten cent monthly contributions by the massesmasses never contributed anything before we started the monthly envelope system who neycr NowNow I think if you would issue a strong circular and have one sent to each association andand it and press secure one one two some good or to toearnest members in each toget church to het pledge themselves to make an honest effort to secure not less than one cent per weekweek from every member in their church we would have all the money we wanted It wouldwould I tell you it is the thing to do to get a contribution thishe over half million dollars this year Foreignar no matter how small from every Baptist in the South and I think the Foreign and Home Secretaries should work for this object in concert this year and try and reach reachawa ha c some specific sum as an all and have average from each member of every church in theanaverage the Ollt h South
NOTES FROM AND ABOUT THE FIELDSFIELDS rites Sunday before last III-Brother Brothcr Bryan Chinkiang China writes they are the first fruits of a greatbaptized four candidates and hope the great harye5t last attack and hope to dodo nlyIast ha yc almost recovered from my harvest I have quarter some ark for the Master this quarteron1C work morningsBrothcr Pierce Yangchow China says of his work The mornings Brother exceptionexception evenings also with as are the close given study the to stud are hich are spent either in theeyer afternoon which the of about two hours every 111cetingho attend meetingsmeetings ith the people who nest hall or street chapels with truest g1est truest storyEvery the is story sEer day he at work ark telling Eer Before leavingleaving Miss Iiss Laura G Barton Tungchow China says the111 thefull convinced that my honlc I was home home as fully niv desire to go to China was of the
stronger my faith has grown all the strongerLord and since my n1 arrival here 111 onesin that belief At first separated as I was from all the dear loved ones never I felt tha thatt I was a stranger and a pilgrim here and China could never111 be home could only beabiding place placeborne bc 111 be my home it could only be my Iis feel home and China my I IImr now no here the family were that ere But where she How shehave a peace of mind and heart that I never knew before ofnlind for PingtuPingtu pleads for workers and especially for a physician veIlwellrites some things that tell well Simmons Canton writes to ith using American money tofor the mission which hich has been charged with than of Chinese converts Facts speak louder thanJiberalit dwarf hvarf the liberality sayswords Brother Simmons says
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letled the mission heretofore They are divided into several parties ledfood their only andget These brethren and preachers experienced and bv one of the older by want tavelil1g expenses They are doing this work because they love the Saviour and wanttraveling ishim in for There is is sinners there which salvation the him and of others to know much is beingprayer members and being of our on part the in work this considerable interest class offered for their success It is our plan to send out parties just after each quarterly classI will lead parties startMcCloy and start Brother months for two to engage in this work prayer pmering the first of October to do this kind of evangelistic work I hope that much prayerworkin work this engaged those home for an sisters at vill be offered by brethren and witt will vill Threeha e joined this year Three t went have Fonr were baptized here yesterday So far only twenty Four bewill be several we expect that and now of the ordained preachers are visiting stations place baptized at each placeyear The health of the mission is about as good as usual at this season of the yea-
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unfortunatelunfortunately unfortunatel rFrom rFronl From a letter from Brother McCollum which he unfortunatelyVe have bapWe bap ve take an extract we marked Not for publication exbeen ex have tized twentyone this year and of that number two sutnnlarilysummarily One an expriest who came in for money but was summarilycluded and ED The remaining nineteen I think are really anddisposed of ofED tchIOlO watchc As tch we a watch By their fruits ye shall know them truly converted to ve find their hearts really going out toand pray and work with them we to their heathen brethren and very zealously do they labor to lead men toareChrist They also give of their substance and though very poor are preach 1naking contributions every week toward the expenses of our preachmaking stationsing stations very Thcre arc about ten or tvel There ve believers here in Iokura yho arc verytwelve anxious for a church building They have raised a subscription of fiftyfifty ill be paid I believebelicvcyen yearly for five years entirely hich will believe entire1ynative native which These Christians beg the Board to give them 500 for a church ofof yhich they will pay back 250 by the pledges above mentioned Wilwhich rillWill not lnot some good brother make a Centennial gift of 250 to help thisthis littIe native church secure a house of worship Brother McCollumlittle 1IcColhunMcCollum says it is hard to rent a suitable house as business men will ill not rentrent to missionaries Brother AI adds I should like very much to see thisthithis d ne hc1plielpJne for them if possible They are few but very faithful and a helpdsdne help iugg hand inn time of need is a good ing in goo thing some good brethren to thethe
the report of the Coahuila mission con ll11SSI011 contained in the last annual an11ua report of the Board occurs this statementstatement statclncntl Bro Watkins with his wife who knows Spanish well is pastor ofof the church in Musquiz which hich belongs to the Rio Grande district thatthat comprises three churches with nineteen members overseered by BroBro Vatkins and two native assistants These churches are reported Watkins eithereither reportcdcitherreportcdcither in good working order or in excellent condition
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Bro Watkins calls attention to this statement and Bro an gives f0fol gCS us the fol1lowing correction lowing The Rio Grande district districtconlprises comprises seven churcheschurches with a total membership at the meeting of the Convention of 103103 Which which has been swelled by baptisms since to 113 I suppose the mismis ke arose from the fact that I baptized nineteen persons into the feta takc take felfel llowship lowship Ioyship of three of these churches last yearearyear ear Ye gladly make this correction both for the sake of the We work and ofof brother Watkins of whom honl brother Powell speaks as a most faithfulfaithful hose churches are well organized for aggressive workmissionary whose TorkTork work hosc outlook is most encouragingand whose encouraging UPSCRAPS PICKED UP Rev J Xewcomb a missionary m5sionar among the Telugus says le sas concerning the terribleterrible famine in that land Our people are fully trusting in the One mighty to save Not oneone of them has turned back although the beautiful Cumdum tank artificial lake moreof more tankartificial lakeof than twenty miles in circumference and thirty to forty feet deep is quite dry TheThe Empire of China lies in what people in Western lands would call U the zone of powepowerpower Dr DrAshmore Chinese arc a most ancient people they are the greyheads amongTheChineseare rDrishmore AslzmoreThc among nations Ibid the nationsIbid The recent earthquake in Japan served to bring out into boldbold contrast the helpfulness of Christianity and the selfishness of heathenism and so hashas A believer in Christ must mean an obedient discipleopened hearts to the former disciple ready at all times to spread the Redeemers kingdom Our day is here and soon willwill kingdomOur he gone Oh for grace to fulfil our day be A missionarys testimony1I hear frombegone from my friend that the very time of the awakening here was the season of extraordinaryextraordinary An experienced missionary says prayer among the churches at home you If youwant to secure fi heavy deathroll on foreign fields send out as few men as possiblepossible underman your Africa Another speaking about AfricaYour stations and you will have it said The best thing thin they mission boards could do in order to rid their stations ofof Europeans was not to send sufficient men As in Africa so elsewhere to It is cruel toput one man alone in the midst of thousands and millions of heathen Our Southern SouthernheathenOur Presbyterian brethren will send out seventeen newly appointed missionaries this sumsum mer cAII mission has 50 stations in Paris and 156 in all France The aggre mrr The McAH Iner aggregate attendance on the services last vear year was 12760001276000
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In the Toungoo district of the province of Burma are the GaMoung Mountains thethe general trend of the ranges being north and south Traveling east from the SittangSittang river the You climb range after range each higher than the preceding till you reach thericr you compriseswatershed between that river and the Salwtn This mountainous country comprises the fields of the Bghai and one an Paku Karen Baptist missions now numbering about oneschools largely self hundred and fifty churches having their village and selfsupsupselfsup an normal schoolslargely sup press portingassociations pastors quarterly conferences newspapers books printing pressin evangelisticand all necessarv Christian civilization and for evangelistic necessary apparatus for growth work among their heathen neighbors Formerly these hill tribes were worshippers o-o0-odemons believers in witchcraft which they punished with death or exile blood feudsfeuds anotherkeeping them constantly constnntl at war with one another
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haeithe havehave In 1SOG the churches of the Bghai Karen mission numbered nine now they churchesincreased to eightyone well organized churches ncreased mis In tours up and down among these villages to the west of the watershed the miswassionaries often looked away to that high range of mountains and wondered what was brought In the Bghai Karen mission ten or more tribes had already been broughtbeyond wastribes beyond the was concerning information gospel but the of influence the uncler under missionarythe missionary years in subsequent and tribes of many reports were There small SahvenSahven Salenexplored on the south going round the more savage tribes as far east as the Salwenlocatedhowever located accounts Various river on that tribe Red Karen river also the great rier llrecDree Bnca wild and savage people between the watershed and the Red Karens called the Dreeenteredseldom entered was country their them that of fear Karens So great was the of About the year Year 1SOG Dr Bixby now of Providence R I made a brief visit to one ofdede exceedingly savage sa age and as them He reports people the northern chiefs among this 1 uch prayer was offered by b this deoteddevoteddevoted Much graded fond of uncooked meat and blood in theirgained their foothold was permanent no for them but missionary missionarv and his followers learnedwas Little learned more showed country God however heard prayer as afterevents Bghai concerning them for nearly ten years after this visit As the boundaries of the Bghaiic isiis which range mission extended the missionary reached the top of the watershed the 10ft overelevation over iew from that lofty ocrtThe view ca110ut six thousand feet above the sea level about the the he land of the Brecs was most grand Here and there columns of smoke marked themoun Broken and craggy mounlIouneye could reach locality of numerous villages as far as the ee fortresstain peaks dense forests and deep ravines showed the country to be a natural fortress made From 1S7G80 efforts were madeYhen would God give this wild people to his Son When gospel in plant the gospelfrom time to time by native evangelists to penetrate the country and people hut the inhabitants repelled all advances and little progress was made The peoplebut trihestribestrillswere found to be the lowest morally and the poorest of all the Toungoo hill trills hand every man and every cer mans handLiving Lhing largely by plunder their hand was against even onon carryoncarryon against them The inaccessible fastnesses of their country enabled them to carry bravcbravethis predatory warfare with impunity So fearful was their name that it was a brave ef man who dared to go among them Thus the missionaries were led to bestow their efbebe inaccessible practically one going as this or around nobler tribes on better and forts case effort How different Gods plans from man The missionary in this caseond Christian ChristianefTort yond amongsought the nobler races but God was preparing to display His power and grace among DreesBrecsthe despised Brecs Previous to 1879 as has been said little progress had been made in planting the gosgos pel in the Brec country A few churches only had been gathered on the borderlandborderland while the heart of the country was almost unknown In that year God ear the Spirit of Godtrainrested upon a young man named SooYah who had recently graduated from the train T oungoo and called him to work among the Brecs ing school in Toungoo He set out on theing the journey alone with only his hymnbook and Testament Climbing the great range ofof mountains he soon passed through the narrow belt of the Brec country already occuoccu pied for Christ and took his way through the forests over an unknown road into thethe heart of the country Losing his way he finally finaHyreached reached Saupelecho a village famed farfar and wide as the haunt of a notorious band of robbers but God was with him and waswas leading him in answer to his prayers On reaching the village he was at once sursur rounded by a band of savage and angry men who drew back their spears andand lifted their long knives crying Kill him kill him He is a spy sent by our enemiesenemies Cut him down SooYah stood unmoved in their midst and when he could makemake himself heard said Do men of war asspies d o go as openly unarmed and about wardo See I do and he opened a bag which he had hanging on his shoulder showing hishis hymnbook and Testament See Are these the weapons of bad men people The peoplehad not yet el recovered from their amazement when he opened his hymnbook and beganbegan to sing to them one of the sweet songs of Zion
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Never theirOCcr before had this poor people seen a book or heard anything in music but theirtheir cries battle or discordant rude attempts own beforesong here at but before was a wonder WI1 them almost as if an angel had descended from the sky and stood thein stoo in their midstmidst Thc They listened entranced and having won tlieir attention SooYah Soo Yah boldly boldl declared toto him them the message God had given himha COp1C come to these savages and taken hold of them As they lisThe gospel of Christ had lis Soo Vahs singing they thc said II This cannot be a bad man we never saw badtcncd to SooYalis tened bad the received him to the best they had and listened to his mesmen mel1 do this way and they mes ladlyladly gladlysage gladly Saupelecho comprised four villages near each other in a natural fortress number SaupeIecho numbersouls ing not far from 1000 soulsIn lSS 1SS2 while attending the meetings of the Karen Association on the western slopeslope of the watershed the mission party were surprised one day by the approach from overover for that range of an armed band of wild men with drums and horns as if approaching forbe the marched up the hill into the circle of the encampment the they proved to behaule As they battle gos They said they had heard the gost 0 chiefs from Saupclccho with their followers two Soo ruh and of this great meeting of the Christians and had come for pel or a-aaIel from SooVah tcnchcr that they might learn how to worship the living Godteacher God HoAYeeThe spokesman was their principal chief a man of gigantic stature named HoAYee thator the blessed a strange name for a man who afterwards told the missionaries that rememberhe had killed not less lcs than ten men and how many more he could not remember weeksIn response to their request a mission party visited Saupelecho and after a weeks theirtheir demons destroyed of worship their instruction one of the four villages gave up was altars and received a Christian teacher In 1SS9 a church of forty members wasthe formed ormcd and the remaining three villages asked for teachers About this time theformed up heathen of this tribe began to be envious of the Christians for since they had taken upand the worship of God they thc had greatly prospered Instead of eating roots and herbs andlongerNow no longer sllch such game as they the could trap in the forests and streams they had rice XU the they had time for the cultivation of thesacrificing to the demons or engaging in war the the soH and food was abundant soil Not ot so with the heathen Having destroyed all thethe weaker villages on their borders which they could reach food became scarce and theenvy enen prosperity of the Christians excited their envythey They The began to discuss an attack upon them Some however opposed for said theyH have livin God and we haveChristians God is not like the Burmans god He is a living The Christians ex heard that He takes care of His people Others disbelieved and wished to make the exinterfperiment on oneof the Christian villages and if the God of the Christians did not inter He ere fere they thc said we shall know that He is a dead God like the Burmans and that HeTheseThese villages Christian all the will up eat cannot take care of His people Then we executionplans were reported to the missionary some time before they were put into execution trialhut it was hoped that they would not come to the trial pro This tribe being outside of English territory the Christians had absolutely no protection save alonesa e God alone thetheDuring the rainy rain season of 1SS9 these heathen put their plans to the trial raided the immediatelyimmediately were Messengers village of Thantheeper and carried off two children
The sent to the missionary four days journey distant with a letter reporting this fact Thejourneydistant the issue was now clearly drawn by In the heathen It was the God of the Christians or theintointo went the letter took missionary The 011d powers of darkness conquer would which darknesswhich his his private room opened and spread it out before the Lord and pleaded for help for hischurches names sake If these children were not delivered from their captivity the eight churchesshaken would be scattered and the faith of all the native Christians would be greatly shakenmatter for they had been taught from the first that God would take care of them The matterpastorspastors was discussed with the native pastors and an arrangement made to have the pastor-
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with nnd deacons with their missionaries meet at Saupelecho after the rains to plead withvillagrvillage Saupelecho was about a days journey from the villageGod for help and deliverance other holding the captive children At the time appointed they met strengthened each otherhistoryBible in people of Gods history with the promises and with cases of the deliverance otfered much prayer and offered th capcap in chose messengers to go and demand the liberation of the captics living were The tives They told to demand their liberation in the name of Jehovah the livingheld God The messengers went were driven in shame from the face of the chief who heldSaid rupees he If you have brought three hundred for ransom forthe children captive anl1on are men come andeach of them pay the money and take them away if not and yon and The messengers returned greatly discouraged and take them ant so were most of thethe reportnative pastors at their report The fall of Jericho and other Bible instances of trial of faith were quoted for theirtheir thencouragement and a second delegation was sent with express orders to demand thethe th liberation of the captive children in the name of Jehovah the living God the God of thethe rcmainlclremainedChristians These were also followed by the united prayers of those who remained behind Again they were roughly refused but not a few things occurred to strengthen strengthentheir faith that God would answer their prayers The fear of the Lord was beginning beginningthemthem amon thenito be manifest among The next day moving to the village from which the children were taken another Hnotheranothermeeting was held and an in the evening while yet at prayer word came from the villagevillage holding the children that if the chief of the village where we were assembled and thethe parents of the children would come for them the children would le given somesome To up sonicien this message brought joy but to others among whom was the chief of the viUngeitothersamong villageitvillageit meant treachery an ambuscade formed in order to seize the chief and parents of thethe children to make their success more certain Among the pastors and deacons however howeverhowevcrwere some who believed that God was about to answer their prayers and volunohman these voltutvolun teered to go for the captives They were led by one of the bravest of the pioneerpioneer pastors and were joined by one of the parents of the children They lighted theirtheir torches and set out on their nights journey through the forests for the third trial forfor the captives All night they went on through the woods till the next day fore da in the forenoon they reached the village where the captives were They had been threatened that thatthey the would be shot if they came again without a ransom yet up et they marched boldly upinto the open place in the centre of the village The women and children thinking a-aabattle was about to be fought fled into the jungle The old chief came out with all hishis armed men ready for battle He took up his position on rising ground at some littlelittle distance and there lie stood The leader of the Christian band then took out his hymnhml1hymn hml1 book and said Let us sing and the whole band united with a will This brought broughtback the people who had fled It was to them a new kind of warfare they were the werecharmed with the sweet song of Zion which they had never heard before After singsing ing the pastor said Let us pray heAnother surprise for the heathen but as liehe prayed all his 1s companions kneeling with him the Spirit of God fell upon them and thethe eTect was great How earnestly effect earnestI he besought God to soften the hard heart of the chiefchicfchief to open his eyes to see how the degradation and poverty in which his people lived waswnswas due to the fact that they had forgotten the living God and joined themselves to the wortheworwor thewor ship of demons Rising from their knees the pastor said Now I am going youyou goin to give youa message from the living God Listen all of you Taking a hymn they had just sung for a text he proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus to that crowd of warriors with most rere markable effect The singing and the prayer had wrought upon the people greatly butbut as the speaker described their ignorance poverty and slavery to sin and the prosperity jO and happiness of the children of God the people were melted joy addressDuring the address the old chief had drawn near and when the doxology had been sung while yet seatedseated on the ground he looked up and said to the preacher Take the children take them
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is a token of good will wi bat give me your trousers ns hut but This pastor seems to have beenbeen his of off than many brethren for he had on two pair which fact the chief hadbetter had discovered hence his requestrequest nm with what earnest prayer had those who remained behindWith what anxiety and behind behinfollowed this band of native Christians on their perilous mission df1JOld missionAll the next day till near nine oclock in the evening they waited in supplication thattillncar that od would now vindicate His honor among these heathen and deliver these captivesoil rod captives captheswith power that all both Christian and heathen might hear of His mighty works andand Him Ice to fear Himbee led Ahout eight oclock in the evening two gun shots were heard on the mountain opAbout op me into view posite Directly torch lights on iew and in about half an hour the bandt1n1e band t he assembly marched up into the nssemb two of the number bearing the captive children on theirtheir shouldersshoulders The scene following was indescribable One grayhaired old pastor took one of thethe children and put him between his feet and solemnly lifting his right hand to heaven exex We never saw it on this wise before daimcd claimed The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob JacobHe has easily done what our might or1 wisdom could neverhas answered our prayers never our enemies and delivered us from their snares Praise do He has put His fear upon our ourenemics Praisebe to His great name Then followed such a praise meeting as is seldom seenrcat name seen This Lhis fhis however was but the beginning of a most gracious answer answertoto prayer Much hashas been nskcd for but a gracious raciotls God gives heaping measure when He bestows answers toto the prayers of His children So it proved in this case The heathen as they heard ofof this deliverance wrought by the manifest power of Jehovah the God of the Christians Christianswere greatly moved and came by villages to the missionary asking for teachers toto show how them how to worship this great God This is the God we want said theythey He lIe takes care of his people Ile pro Teachers were supplied as fast as they could be proclmrchescured Xor was the work confined to the hcathrtii alone but some of the old churcheschurches caught the missionary spirit and assembled for prayer and contributions for this workwork So great was the fear of God among Young men came forward and offered themselves amongthe heathen that in several cases captives were surrendered on demand of native paspas tors and in other cases when chiefs holding teacherholdin captives heard that the Jesus Christ teacher was coming for them the of they were sent to meet them in the way Already some score ofcaptiyes have been surrendered captives surrenderedschool In October last a missionary meeting was held at the Toungoo training schoolA delega at which about seventy pastors and evangelists were assembled good delegaone Said onetion from the Brcc country were present Their reports were thrilling we pastor So many man villages among the Brecs are now asking for teachers that wechurches no longer remember the number Many expressed their belief that if the churchessoiritssuiritssoirit The missionary spiritswere faithful the whole tribe would turn to the Lord IndeedIndeed seemed to take full possession of the meeting when the leader arose and said eemed the Lord is doing marvellous things for us Let us sing Jesus shall reignreign na Said a missionary missionar present It moves us deeply to see with what enthusiasm these nahas tive pastors once savages now join in praise to Jesus who has redeemed them and hastic given such wonderful answers to their prayers Review Reticugien Missionary ReviewprayersJIissionarr 4
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cancall Is it my life I hold when thou dost callunreapcdunreaped thy harvest fields so long unreapedMe Ie to thy soulsBurden this heart of mine with weight of souls lost Dying in heathen lands Christless and lostsad Till neath the awful weight crushing and sadsoulsoul yieldeth my heart my stubborn Yicldeth YieMeth Yi0deth thee o earth loving but theeBreaking all ties of joyI fields with joy press harvest Forth to the seedBreaking the fallow ground sowing the seed painsmiling mid pain Reaping in Jesus name soul Praying when trials crush down on my soulsufF thrown rings dark ark shadows are thrownPraising when suffrings memy onme footsteps if thou hast for Hasten till ePlace m hand can tillPlnce in thy vineyard which my Place eartm heart heartIs it a loved one I press to my eart caBcall which thou dost callHolding from service to towhich I yieldyield Master Iaster all loving to thee would rcquirerequireDearest and best of mine shouldest thou require irailfrail But weak the human heart how weak and frail111 soul Dear Lord thou knowest well Help thou my soulAU would I offer thee for thee to useAll use How when whereer thou wilt now strengthen me nowwiltstrengthen withholdSurrender full to make naught to withhold Th will my will shall be givn thy grace Thy graceLoved ones and dear to me Lord they are thine
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TuppcrDear ear Dr Tuppcr I think that in my last letter to you aaashort time ago I made no mention ofof Imdthe special meetings that we have hadhad Ye all felt the need of greater recently We
evcneven power in the Lords service and so evenChinese ing after evening we met with the Chinesethatltbatthatbrethren and cried earnestly to God that holy he ie would be pleased to pour out his holybe bspirit upon us in order that we might bebelieve the better fitted to do his will I believete cthat both the Chinese brethren and ourethat our that selves hove strengthened HJye been refreshed and strengt1lened-
THE FOREIGN 1IISSION JOURNALOURXALOURXAL JJOURNAL waiting upon God Sncral enen who have heard the gospel forfor testified some time stood up aml openly testifiedre that they believcd in Jesus and were reisfoHow him is henceforth solved to It sohcd be probable that some of these wiIl soon beprobahle bbyy tllUs
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left brother Bryan and an I leftWee preached at two ofof midday our outstntions cnjoJed our midday-
sitting on the grass by the side ofof in the canll and arrived at Yangchow inwell p1ensed to seethe brethbreth the evening we BroBro ren there well and actively engaged work ther and sister Pierce wcre hard at workChi grappling with the difficulties of the Chinese tongue and as far as I could judge ncse judgethey hoth seem to be making very fairfair troub1ed The only thing that troub1edprogress us was our inabilit places inability to be in two placesad at once as the brethren Jiving there in adjoining houses both wished to take posioining pos Yc left next morning brosession of us We bro travellingther and siser ChnppcIl also travelling daywith us as they intended to spend a day or two in Chinkiang The peop1l both atat vil Yangchow and also in the diflrcnt vilwelIlages en route were apparcntly as wellwelI disposed as evcr This is something to bebe tlwnkful thankful for and more especinJIy so asas lust now in man iust and many parts of China vile andslanderous reports arc very rife It willwill not be at a1l surprising to see serious riots riotsand disturbances break out at any momo ment indeed property has recently beenbeen destroyed and missionaries hadly treated treatedin South China but I believc that we needneed be under no apprehension in this part andand that we shall be allowed to go on peacepeace ably with our work of making known thethe gospelgospel 011 On June 6th brethren Bryan Pierce andand myself left on a short evangelistic tourtour We preached at our two stations FantuFantu and Kienpih to good and attentivc attentivcaattentiveacon audiences udiences Sometimes it is more convenient to preach in the open air at other othertimes in tea shops but wc foundgeneralJy foundgeneralJysgenerallygenerally found listenersspeaking that we got th peaking the best listeners when speaking from our boat to the peopeo ple gathered together on the shore CerCer tainly s e were in this respect literal1y meal mcal
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following the example of our Lord andollowing and f aster Master On the folJowing day we preached preachedin the open air at Sateokai from therethere we went to Hongkiao where we had aaaservice which Jasted neady two hours inin a tea shop After this I had to return toto Chinkiang leaving the other brethren toto go on a Jittle further For this I waswas sorry the people seemed to be so willingwilling to listen to the gospel that it was a greatgreat joy to be able to preach to them I mademade the return journey on a wheelbarrow wheelbarrowstaying at one place to preach The otherstaJing other brethren returned to Chinkiang three hrethren threelaterdays later At our two stations in Chinkiang I-IIpreac11 preach six or seven times a week andand some among the hearers accept the invitainvita tion to come to my home to drink tea andand gospel talk about the gospelwill Four men have been accepted and willTheteThete probably be baptized next Sunday Thereenter are others too who are vishing to enterbewill be be church baptized the and who fore long For this encouragement in ourour only work wee are thankful but these are onlyfor the droppings our beart6 cry out forGod1GodOh God blessings showers of that speedily 111l may send them speedily11l Ve are hoping to spend some time inin We Ve restJapan this summer for much needed rest Sincerely yoursyours yoursY Y IV
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May ray 17th 1892 1892DetZf Dear Journal oUfnaoUfna Journal-
friends Doubtless very few of the home friendsCen know of the Yang Choo lIission in Cenhaving tral China This is a new station havingand been opened only since last December andMr at present is occupied by two families MrVe havehave Chappell Chapiell and wife and ourselves We the a very fine location for work among theen people Our housc which adjoin are enof closed in the same compound In front ofthe the dwelling part and opening into thegood street is a large ball in which in goodAAweek held A a are meetings weather fie inis chapel in street a short distance awnr meetings 1MrChappell Chappell conducts his meetingswhich 1fr
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cit a-aaRecently ecently in the other end of the city IrMrMr Ir used by be chapel has been rented to helperPierce and his native helper citycityYang Choo is alarge and wealthy city Yang fifteenfifteen situated on the Grand Canal about takesIt usually takes miles from Chinkiang tripfrom six to eight hours to make the trip boatfrom one place to the other in the boat longerand when the wind is contrary longer miles The distance across the river is five milesdangerousand in high wind it is very dangerous in crossing Many lives have been lost inweather this river in stormy weathersur are completely surwe Choo In Yang missionamissiona Unless Chinese the rounded by stop ries passing up or down the canal stopTheThe face foreign see a with us we rarely onhen on Yhen friendly people seem to be very fromfrom any distance the street especially us very politely call usour home the children verv salutationThis form of salutation foreign devils some is not at all pleasant to hear but in someiSnot isnot othercases I think they know us by no other inten name and they use it with no evil intenstandtion whatever One day as I was stand to ing ing by the Canal waiting for the boat tocol carry me to the other side the people collected around me and among them was a-aacoming bright eyed little boy of six who comingmymy quite close to me and looking up into myhis face with a very friendly smile said in hiscould I couldForeign devil childish voice little scarcely scarceh scarcelr refrain from laughing at the littleheedingone as he stood before me but not heeding his his friendly salutation I asked him hisheliehe which questions few other age and a very politelypolitely answered Tet done very little visitingvisiting I have as Jet isIost of my time isamong the women Most is Iy studystudy spent in studying the language Mjr M-I Hours hours are from 9 A MI to 430 or 5 P M Tuesday with two hours intermission On TuesdayThursday and Sunday afternoons I holdhold meetings with the women in the hall InIn meetings these meetings which usually last an hourhour I sing a hymn that someha YC learned and some tha t I have times make a few remarks on it then readread toa few passages in the Bible and talk toto them as best I can after which I sing a-aafew more familiar hymns I have beenbeen teaching a few little girls to sing somesome simple hymns and now they are quite a fI-
help to me in the meetings Although I-IIattatmakt sad mistakes in my attempts at make make con talkit1 still the fict that the women conalkit1 talking and tinue to come often in large numbers anddo seem to listen attentively to what I dopraypraysay sa encourages me very much I pray 1-
of the Holy Spirit may prepare the hearts offeeblefeeble feeblreceive words my to listeners my loLlo the be and cause them to look tothought ethough though they savedbe saved and Christ oJesus Jesus special Several weeks ago I received a speciaI hadChinese home had linvitation to visit a invitation waswas 110t not been there long before the room wasnot neighboringneighbonghneighboring full of women from the neighbotingry hostess had tea cake andand ouses My houses finished in When we had finishedoranges broughtin arivari ari this dainty repast and talked about variof ous things she asked me to tell her ofloveslovcsloves her sang I to read Jesus Jesus me and talked as best I could of JesusJesus on 01great love for all men his death for us onsalva 1the the cross and that we may obtain salvathetion through faith in him Some of the tion who could read and a few littlelittle women who the boys present joined me in singing theasas themselves The They expressed hymn hmn U docdoc very much pleased with the Jesus googoodgood very goodtrine and said it was gateOrateWhen Yhcn dhn I left they escorted me to the gate Yhcn hn the and invited me to come again One of thethe very much from thewomen was suffering ver any toothache She asked me if I knew of anything thin that would stop it I told her I thought I had some medicine and when I reached reached home I sent her a mixture which I learnelearned prepared and which I afterwards learnedother Several otherrelieved her suffering treatwomen hearing of my successful treat me ment in a case of rheumatism told methethe that they too were suffering with give gietsame disease and asked me if I could givecouldthem hem some medicine I told them I could used not then as my liniment was all usedand The Chinese have many diseases andthe their treatment of them is absurd in theremediesremediesextreme Some of the internal remedies centipedes used in this country are snakes centipedesvery scorpions and even human flesh the veryshudder thought of which makes one shudderOne of the greatest needs at this place is a-aacity missionary physician In this great cityof 500000 inhabitants there is not one II-
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diedChrist Lhrist died hhphy Another another nother important reason why a phyis sician ician should be stationed at Yangchoo isician medicalmedical medicahave may missionaries the that making attendance lattenance when needed without makingTheThe a trip to Chinkiang or Shanghai Chinkiang broad Yangtse flows between Chinkiangstormyand Yangchoo and in windy or stormy withoutwithout weather it is impossible to cross ofof qne ofrisk of life At such a time were one andsuddenl and suddenly our number to be taken forfor would jbe impossible fordangerously ill it wouldjbe his the physician in Chinkiang to come to hisassistanceassistance great You can therefore readily see the greatthis and pressing need of a physician at thisbe Ye are praying that one may beplace pace We bebe sent to us this year Shall our prayers be-
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ChrisChrist Your sister in ChristPIERCE X MINER thER PIERCGinsburgYIGinsburg IsFrom EFrom Brother GinsburgVIFrom SAXTOSTOESATOSTATE OF ESPIRITO SAXTO BIUZILBRAZIL REIUIILIC REITHLIC EIlBLIC IlBLIC OF BRAZI18921S92lSa2LJuly 4th 1892 July LJulv4th Jul Julv4th DellBellDear Dcar Brother DellDell amam As 1ss you see from the above address I am-
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yes yst1fcaking reaking new ground I reached here yesreaking the terday erdayand terdayand and am much impressed with thenecessity of a Christian worker here I-IInlcessity Spirit feel fed assured that it was the Holy Spiritted Baptist himself who prompted the first Baptistdecide Missionary JIissioIlary Convention of Brazil to decidetaketo open up the work here and take ChristEspirito Santo for Christ thoughsthough State thoughwhole imagine Just a yet sinall small mal1 among other States of Brazil yetKing large enough to cover two United Kingdoms a State with about a million of
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nhabitants a State which furnishes theciliabitants inhabitants the best coffee in the market which has aaa-hest great future awaiting it and which hashas four off the most flourishing colonies inin Brazil This State has been left up to toto day without the gospel without GodGod without the knowledge of him whom toto know is life eternaleternal streets It is pitiful to pass through the streetscreatures and see these hundreds of Gods creaturesstringswith their idolatrous bands and strings and and rosaries around their necks andlifenone of them knowing of Christ his life his work his death his salvationsalvation Tis true there are three or fourfour well here churches large spacious wellherelarge goodTis true a goodgood constructed buildings but many go there almost all go there butnearly what do they learn The priest is nearlyliving every day so I am informed drunk livingworthywith prostitutes a creature not worthy with poor can these poorWhat canthese of the title man shepherd sheep get from such a shepherdI have great hopes for this field for I-IIis am sure the Lord has led us here and issaid Has he not saidblessing us already WyVeWeVe We Ask and it shall be given you answeringanswering is he ehave have ha ve asked in faith and out already Let me give you a little outus alread thesein these already line of what he has done hours twentyfour hourspreaching Our great need was a hall for preachingland and how to get it in a strange landdifficulty among strange people was a difficultyaD1on hehe onty the Lord himself could solve and lieonly liehe1e 1On the steamer he did it admirably watch ehrought brought me together with a Swiss watchmake established in this city who has aaa-maker which nice hall in the centre of the city whichaa-is a Though it preaching for just suits just monthlymontlllymonthly reis 15 G0000 little dear peoplepeop1vet I think it will repay for the people yet needneed we now Of course in come ethat will that knowknow we etc etc But seats and lamps provide that he will providelot On the steamer I had distributed a lotconversations conversationsof tracts and had had good and with some but I wanted to preach andaskedup a door I asked Lord to open upa tlieLord asked the openair to preach in the openairsmeta enable me tocnable him to any seeing eeing I had no hall nor seats nor anyshore thing else But when I reached the shore-
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sa w Satan atat cournae failed me for I saw my courage tomorrowwork Yesterday today and tomorrow areare are the carnival days These days arcDrunkards terrible Sin and Satan reign Drunkardsin murderers prostitutes have full liberty inevenI all even of censaw sa and worst these thee days drunkniuddrunkdrunk niuddrunk the police rolling about in the mud I I could do do I what What hat shall LordThe Lord went out distributing tracts down seemed to keep the bad spirits downcourage came back and I got up on a-aalove loestone and began to tell them of the loveour of God manifested in Christ Jesus ourtheLord trying00- to make clear to them the I Saviour which is Christ the Lord Sanour the pointed out to them the great need thefallen world has of a Saviour because of fallenhelplessOuilt guilty corrupted condemned and helpless coming man A Saviour was promised his cominghehe predicted and in the fullness of time lieyou appeared and him I preach unto youme today Tlie people gathered round mehun slowly slow the crowd grew from about a hundred to about one thousand all listeninglistening to me quietly for about twenty minutesminutes Then Satan appeared I had to leave off ene offdifficultypreaching having to find with difficulty my hotel where I at last arrived coveredcovered with mud dirt etc etcetc Today all again is quiet Have beenbeen out to distribute tracts Many are rere ceiving cehing them gladly others tear them andand insult one awfully But the gospel willwill and must reign here and I have no doubtdoubt that the banner of Emmanuel will soonsoon wave high in this place placeI am writing this hastily because toto morrow goes a steamer direct from hereheremorrw here to New ew York and I thought you wouldwould be glad to hear of how the work goes onon
of God we both mean to work for ChristChrist Brazil and for BrazilLovc to all the dear Christian brethrenLove brethren BrazilSYours respectfully for BrazilBrazil SOLOMOX OLOMOX SOLOJto GlXSHUKO GlXSHUKSOLOoX L GIXSBlfGIasnc-
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heard of my marriage to Miss C EEE Bishop an English young lady It waswas realized on the 28th of May at brotherbrother Entzmingers house She is promising toto be a good helper to me and with the help
Hy uy clear JournalMy Jourt1alJournal Well rell we are glad to announce two moremore baptisms making twentyone t this yearyear An old man came to see us this afternoonafternoon and said that God had changed his naturenature heand he was so happy that formerly liehe grew angry at the slightest provocationprovocation hebut now he was quite patient He said liehe was praying for his wifes conversion asas he wanted them to be baptized togethertogether An old man now comes to church whowho He requested thatswalks fifteen miles that services IcMeervices be held at his home soo Mrr McIc Me Collum Collun and an evangelist went out heldheld services and an spent the night with himhim He Ile treated them very kindly and halllie hadhad gathered quite a crowd to hear the glad gladtidings of salvation He has asked forfor baptismbaptism re went out a few days We lays ago to hold a-aameeting in a neighboring village IindFindFind ing all the laborers at work in the wheatwheat fIelds and despairing of collecting a crowdfields crowd we were about to return when an old ladylady said Wait ait a few moments they will allall come in to smoke tobacco at 10 oclockoclock Wee acceded to her request and at theWe the said time they all came in to regale themthem selves sehes with their pipes and so we had a-aacrowd to hear us after all On inquiry wewe found that the they came in and smokedsmoked twice a day Truly this is a nation ofof smokers and tobacco consumers OldOld men young ones ladies of all ages andand Thinkstations as well as smoke Think children of laborers in America resting twice a dayday to smoke methinks they would be givengiven ghcnmore leisure by their em was employers ployers than wasweBaltogether compatible with their wellwell
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UellUell Dear Uro BellI havc just heard the joful news thatcthatthat have our brethren in Kwong Sai province havea11r
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which it is huilt nncl part of the moneymoney rinceThis is the Oll rince clmpcl pel ill the whole pro onllcha prOtlccprOtlcc The peopc of tIwt province havc always alwaysbeen 1ern strongly antiforeign Our Lord hashas sent cnt his servants to preach the gospel toto them hut some they stolled others theythey to beat and sent empty away Thanks be togod od who hath given us Baptists a door ofof The entrance Wec have now 24 memhers Thehun proince province has eightyone wnIled cities hundreds of market towns and thousands ofof atvillages ilIages The population is estimated at ilIages population8121327 ahout equal to the population H113 in the States of Virginia Xorth Carolina CarolinaAlabamaSouth Carolina Georgia and Aabama Aabamaigno taken together Just think of the ignotakcn rance and sill these sin which would exist in thesefive States if in them there wcre only oneone fie God house in which to worship the truc Godwouldand only twcntyfourChristians It would ami he a nohle work in this centennial year toto send out two young mcn one should be aslnd aaunun untdoctor to evangelizc in this almost un touched field fielouched who dUkinpun Ukinpun a natic of Kwong Kwon Sai whofol was baptized last year gayc mc the following account of how he persecuted thethe nnenne In June saints aints and of his conversion aints 18UO you and three nathe Christians Christianscame to our village After you wcnt awaytaway these three natie Christians dwcJt in ahese aahouse and taught our childrcn to worship worshipanccstralancestralJesus We Vc had a meeting in the anccstral ball and determined that if these Christians hall 1m in
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did lid not leave our village at once we wouldwould drive them onto I along with two otherother men went that night and warned thethe
Christians hut they would not listen to tous so next morning at daylight we gathgath ered over a hundred men armed withwith swords bamhoo poles c attacked thethe Christians heat them and droe them outout Immediately after afterthis this we again assemhled assemhledin the ancestal 1mB and wrote a petitionpetition to the Iandarin accusing the Christians Christiansof making the disturbance doing evil andand teaching unholy doctrine Il t is needless toto say this was quite untrue The ChrisChris tians also appealed to the fandarin telltell in how driven low they had been beaten and drivenout bnt had lost neither norclothesmoney norclothes neithermonenorcIothesneithermonenorcIothes This petition got into the hand of Ukin Ukinpun who reasoned in this way If I hadhad pUll certainlybeen one of these Christians I certainly would have said I lost 20 or 30 worth wonld worthhe of clothes and money They must not beso bad as we think so I decided to examexam 50 ine the doctrine for mself Vhen Paw PawI came hack got a-aaIiiaiiwa our colporter him from shortly and afterwards afterwardstract became an earnest cnquirer and IlOW I-IIheeame Jesus want to learn the doctrine and serve JesuslastThis brother was baptized last Christ BibleBibk October and is now studying the Bibkyearwith Dr Graves At the end of this year village lie he intends to return to his l1ate villagehis where our chapel is and there follow hisbrethrencalling as a famlcr and help the brethren twelveto understand the Bible His SOIl twelve Cantonyears of age wns baptized in the Canton and church last qunrter and a brighter andtheremore sure testimony is seldom heard there prosperPray that God may bless and prosper provincewong Sai province his york in the IIwong workYours in the work TIWS MCCLOfcCLOTrios fcCLOY
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beeneeneen the zealous 1iss Barton has also been for reportreport months or more three working good ing much interest and anticipating gooditw itw villagersresults in tht dingy homes of the villagers iIIagesvillagesAs it is too warm to go to the iIIages much visiting and city work is being donedone present at presentWe Ye are in sore need of more laborersYe laborers HienIlienNothing is being done at Hwang Hien Xothing IissMissIiss Brother and sister League with Miss Knight are busy at Pil1gtU I hear wewe Pingtu have a chance for a physician at PingtuIme May couldHe could ay we not expect him this fall IIecouldIIecould rs Sears and I not come before needed Mrs have been compelled to spend the summersummer Arein TUl1gcho to he near a physician Are will there no consecrated physicians who willvolunteer to come Is it not too bad thatthat we have to depend on other denominationsdenominations in such a way How many can we etprct etprctof the 100 men If we wish to hold ourour own we must have more men May a thethe adyanceLor bless this year to the great advanceLord adyance Lor ment of his cause is my prayerprayer
hOllse is an American ollr Consul seeraJ seeraJof the Protestant missions in turn havehave occupied it and now in order to rent it toto a Roman Catholic Mr Ir Xewton wouldwould have to cngage a priest to bless it and toto sprinkle it with holy water to make it a-aafit rcsidence again for the faithfulfaithful Our church membership is small hut thethe members are mostly faithfnl some being beingany as earnest Christians as I have seen anywhere where It is wonderful what nn in attachattach ment we feel for many of these peoplepeople hecreated by our efforts to help them to behe better Xow thnt there arc schools forfor gir1s girls aU oer the Rcpublic een th the womenwomen of the poorest cInsscs in the next genern generngeneration vill be able to rend nnd we havehave reason to hope that our mission schoolsschools will make them Biblerending womenwitl women Among the regular attendants of mymy Thursday P ML womans meetings buthuthut one woman can read and the vcrses to bebe committed to memory must be taught thethe others as to childrenchildren Respectfully There is much poverty in this great richrich Y H SF QRS SEHS QRSEHcity and an most of our people are dependentdependent upon the thirty or forty cents they makemake DugganGUSFranl Mrs Duggan SFrom DugganFranl daily for their livelihood The womenwomen GeDLAjRA ADALAJARA MFx 1892 fIx July 27 1S92189work aU day long on tying the fringes of thethe BelBellBro 2Jy dear llv Bel Jy rebozo the universal shawl or windingwindinCwinding windin This day marks the cud of my first threethree CnllOl1CS canones for the weavers shuttle and thenllOl1CS the years in Iexico and a1though there is noweave the shawls standing in theno men wem thth the special significance in that fact it makes makesmost absurdly antiquated looms whihwhichwhih me feel like writing to tell you something somethingmore more than half fill many rooms t11lny of the roomsof what I hae 1earned during the pastpast The dyeing winding and weaving of thethe year in this city as I have already done donethread and the fringe tying is the principalprincipal before of the two years in the SaltilloSaltil10Saltil10 industry of the poorer classes of GuadalaGuadala workwork jara who live in that part of thee called the city it calledOur mission family is as you know all allSt John of God In the homcE that I visitvisit resident under one roof in the second ston storystonstory in this region and in my wayside talks I of the house with the enice hall andanldo not find that the Iexicans of Guadalaanl Guadala schoolroom on the ground schoo1room round floor ThisThis jara ns a nhole are hungering and thirstthirst old house is rather interesting being moremore ing for al new re1igion I find them very vcrvcr verythan one hundred years old and having happy and content with their own and I been built as the residence of a RomanRoman am often pitied because I do not believe inin Catholic Canon In the iron work overover the influence of the II 10ther of God I the entrance are wrought the names ofof think of two reprcsentathe cases just atat Mary Iary Jesus and Joseph and one of theIary the this moment One is that of old DonDon rooms 5tiH bears traces of the Ora OratorytonOratory ton Pedro already eigbty years old He lovesloewith its niches in the walls for saints andadtto read and has some quaint old devodeyodeyo the he gilded pinnacles of tIle altar mouldedmoulded tional books that would be treasures to a-aainto the wal1 As the present owner of the bibliomaniac Some time ago I lent him II-
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them of the truth we cannot lose the hopehope that the Spirit ot God will make some ofof the seed sown to germinate and bear fruitfruit Guadalajara is next to Puebla the mostmost fanatical city of the Republic There are 100000 inhabitants hundreds of priests priestsbeautiful churches ehureliesand and many nianyRonian Roman CathCath olic schools and colleges but we doo notnot lose heart for some of the children areare studying the Bible and hymns some of thethe women are being taught the Bible andand some simple sonic of the men recognize in our simpledoctrine and services a truth that is lacklack Churching in the Catholic Church I shall leave it to some one else to tell ofof our beautiful city with its flowery parksparks lights street cars and electric lightsVee are well except that rheumatismrheumatism has given me some shut in days TheThe sHghslight earthquake shocks have been so slighttthat we have been dismayed at the newsnews that paper reports which have alarmed ourour paIwr friends frierds Very sincerely yoursyours yoursJJANIE AMIE ANIE JXIE
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very The following letter from a lady in Baltimore who has been veryvillactiyc willwill Place church in active ill the Chinese Sundayschool of the Eutaw characbe read with he ith pleasure by many as showing something of the charac Annie ter of Chinese converts ami their trials It was written to Miss AnnieED110 ED usEnBAus Armstrong Arnlstrong who kindly sent it to usEn NTale NThe
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A Dear nniciss AnnieAnnie nnic Miss Dearhiss Sundayschool I want to tell you of a pleasing incident which occurred at the Chinese Sundayschoolfilled Centennial up Centennialof Scott St sent a KceofScott yestcnla You know that our scholar Sam Kee yesterday to ask ourschool intending our Chapel Card a few weeks ago yesterday I took a couple to
ex other Christians Der Sang and Dcr Leong to take them Sang came in early and I exhavepeoplehavehave people trouble persecution my peoplehave havctrouhJe plained the object to him He said just now I have dead He explained it to be a religious festival to worship their deadin China a big ig Fair furnishing Ancestors fll1ccstorsby by burning paper houses furniture clothing c for them and furnishingancestorsby help 11e1meats and Meats an drinks for them His friends here are collecting money to send home to helppbear uncle bear the expenses of this great festival which costs thousands of dollars His unclecan told him last week that he must give five dollars toward this object Sang said HII canNo I-IInot give you money for it But you must I have put your name down customs cannot give it What is the matter with you you give up all your old customsIf you If youWeIJ that is no good Well JOugoo it does them no good to burn paper to them Uncle you naming some house and beat youdo not give this money we will take you to up yell Well you can doo thatbut Veltou that but I will not give you money to use for that Then he took upTheseThese Thesthe card and said HII will take this card and gire the five dollars on that
ac San has had more than one beating on acords Sang threats of his uncle are not empty words ithow much know We cannot e it years four past the during count of his love for Jesus alin himself confidence he I al so little has Sang Christians costs these men to become manybut I am sure he is stronger than many ways says I am m so weak and I know little I-
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CERTIFICATESECENTENNIAL CHAPEL CARDS AND CERTIFICATES CENTENNIAL and It is hoped during the Centennial year that every one old andamake to aaopportunity the of herself himself and avail will young freefrecis free Card the Chapel at isat the purpose tills For Forthis special gift to missions sending ill make collections or offerings upon it sendingdisposal of all who will hashas already use Its Boards Foreign money ei Home or ther either the to the BapMaryland Bap The gifts small and secure value interest to proved its sup tist Mission Rooms 10 E Fayctte St Baltimore is the depot of supandand the Boards from appeal A circular S S superintendents plies for r ithil1 withith will be sent with also Bricks leaflet Annies narrative interestil1gnarratc the interesting chargeorders free of charge indiyidualsindividuals For Pastors Womans Mission Societies Bands or individualsseycin the seveseve Committees application should be made to the Literature UnionUnion V Missionary AYomans ral States See addresses in heading of 01111n ol1rl1nl ol1rl1depart1nent of the Journal department JournaaJournal-
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As alreah already stated the nation has had a-aabeen mighty past Great statesmen have beenforth produced great scholars have come forthwar great philosophers have arisen great warstu riors have sprung up works of art of stuexecuted pendotts pendous magnitude have been executedconcep as a wonderful concepthe grand canal was reach tion in its day the great wall would reachoffrom Boston to St Louis Discoveries ofof from The great value have antedated our own Thegunpowder mariners compass the use of gunpowderthings the art of printing arc all ancient thingsnamesnames with them Let us not forget such namesConfucius as Fo IIi Kang IIi Lau Chu Confuciuslas and Mencius and let us not forget thatthat from this same region went forth two ofof saw the greatest generals the world ever sawfacil Tamerlane and Genghis Khan The facilgenius ity with which their military geniushandled vast masses of men is without a-aaof parallel in some respects in the history ofwarfare These men moved their conquerconquer though ing armies across Asiatic deserts as thoughAutumn they had been selected fields for AutumnManoeuvres dy They set up a Mogul dy11anuvres nasty in India the greatest that everever ru1ed in its history headed by such menruled men magnificentas the mighty Akbar and the magnificent Shah Jehan Note well that fact The
worldworldworld is the worlglory of Indian greatness as these theccounts glory was an outcome off thesetheythey H or did same northern Mongols Nor of move alone in that direction the sheen ofmove as their spears was seen on the Dnieper ashoofs of theirtheir chntterin well and the chattering trembletremhlesquadrons of horse made Europe tremble fofo fol 1m now this mighty past is to he folAnd popu hi a mighty future Her populowed up hy hya loued Her lation is increasing with rapidity Herchildren towns and villages swarm with childrencould myriads of them coming on She couldworking take a contract to supply with a workingthe population all the waste places of thecolonies colonieswest and she is sending out her coloniesnfindfitHand squads already wherever she can find popu a place for them and still the home popugreatestlation is on the increase Chinas greatest in history is ahead of her It is true that inhas the great movements of our day she hashas not not counted for much hitherto She hassays been asleep as one of her statesmen saysto But the sleeper of the ages has begun toto wake His ancestral cradle has ceased torock he has risen to his elbows and is-is ended his snores have endedlooking around aroun of his yawns vnwns have attracted the attention ofaa-A huge boneless giant a the nations the public speaker once called her but thethe giants bones have begun to form and thein growing pains have startled statesmen inShe is already aaAmerica and Europe
THE FOREIGN MISSION JJJOURNAL JOURNALOURNALounXALounXAL alreadyprolerJ1 her wandering children already problem nationsears ago the nations a bewilderment Years The of the west fought to get into China Thewalls alls were broken down the nations gotgot in but the Chinese the hinte got out and now thegetnations are almost ready to fight to get
lie copper globe of theThe them in again the fisherman has been opened to let out thetsherman the imprisoned genii but no power of thethe Halfcr get them back again Half west will ever cue a century ago a Chinaman with his cuecutlongwas W1S a sight so rare as to call for a long him ncwspaper paragraph to tell about himnewspaper Xowand Xow all the faroff land he came from Novaldays where is he not to be found IleIlllieadays lie HelieHe has already become a cosmopolitan is iu Australia and Xc New Zealand and thethe
Sandwich Islands and Demerara and the an theWest Canada best Indies and in England and CanadaHeHe and II Id Mexico and the United States and has insinuated himself into our towns andatHvillages iIJagcs here and there one and and an two andquarters Ithrtc three and has established his quartersdeterin our large cities and jostles along deterdeter li mined live U1ild to vindicate his right to livefuftlCl1in1 fu ve n great China is ttoo have rea t commercial hrha UlC1 nndand iture ture lure Her people arc born merchants andexperienceexperience traders and given time and expeenceexpeence and they will wil1malc make their own opportunity andcompete share ompctc with the sharpest for a full sharedeal off the worlds gains Formerly her dealings mg were of the secondhand the and thesccondhUH an petty shopkeeper kind Her merchantsmerchants pdty in Hongkong and Shanghai operatedoperated bought through foreign merchants and boughtall their supplies second hanJhand and third handsecon all Xow they have become wholesale dealersNow dealers XcwNew and importers they keep run of NewYork and London prices they know thethe havehave thc hlctmutntions of western markets they mutations own their own agents abroad get their ownOWhcir husibusi 11quotations quotations and transact their own busifact ness by telegraph It has become a factilland ill that old and am established English anddid Amcrican firms in China that once didAmerican their colossal buying and selling with theirhave own funds on their own account havecommis tapered down to be largely mere commistlpcrcd Ilt1esion They have Thc haveSIon merchants for Chinese become thankful for their patrOliae as patronage assettItsettlesettle well as their custom In foreign settleithe away from home they show thements hlents ayay Anglo same ability to keep up with the Anglomoneyed Saxon In Penang thcyarc they are the moneyedmen of the colony there are millionairesmillionaires ridcride among them j they live in style and ridein carriages garden In Singapore the gardencity of the tropics they own twothirdstwothirds out of all all the property in the settlement outside of the goveriment They government buildings Theysteamers own bank shares and lines of steamerstimber and mines of tin and forests of timbersome and make fortunes and ride around someto of them in costly carriages quite equal togovernors But for them the colony tile the governors li-
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could not pa pay its way England furnishesfurnishes the governor with his secretaries thethe so1diers soldiers with poJicepolice yith their rifles and the policewith hutwIth their batons to keep order butbut Chinamen pay for the food they eat andand the very clothes they wear upon theirtheir backs The business of the whole regionregion in their hands Notround about is largely Not only do they run their own affairs but asoniy as a prominent official said there is not a-aaheavy transaction among the foreign mermer hatsSinga porc which a Chinaman chalnts hasChiuama1l11achants chnnts in Singapore has Nor is itnot got a finger in somewhere it with Europeans only that they competecompete successfully They lead all Asiatics HinHin Mogulsdus Arabs and even the shrewd MogulsIogulsMoguls And so they are progressing ever every yearyear getting experience widening their scopescope effort of vision broadening their field of effortbe brnnching out taking new ventures bebranching coming bolder operators and pushingpushing themselves tl1tmsehcs into business whether otherother people want them or notnot Cbina is to have China future ha re a great political futureChina her not one which is to concern simply herself but one which is to affect the worldworld self fifty Who would have said such a thing fiftythen ycars ago Who would have said thenyears conse that China would ever become a conseor quential lttential factor in European politics ormoves that her attitude would affect the movesYet alal on the diplomatic chessboard pass ready has that thing come to passread Asia England and Russia are rivals in AsiajawsIf the Lion and the Bear should lock jaws range onn each other anywhere on the long rangewill wilof the Hindu Koosh both of them willDragon have to watch the coils of the Dragonlhae pro Neither Xcthcr England nor Russia cares to prothese Humanly speaking thesevoke okc China in thrce powers hold the destiny of Asia inthree power thcir hands England is the most powertheir ful at present but the others have thethe the best foothold In a sense each holds thetwo balance of power between the other twohold Of course China holds her share To holdtwo the balance of power between these twoto nations is to hold it for all Asia and tofeltfelt hold it for all Asia is to make herself felthold Europe in III all the council chambers of Europebeen Some things already spoken of have beenTheseThese referred to as ancient things theythey things so modern that theyare modern thingsso cen have ha e come up in the last quarter of a cenpeople verr modern that many peopletury so very infonl1edinformed lion ie supposed to be well informedat home thathave not heard of them Be assured that situa China has begun to apprehend the situaand tion Her statesmen are aware of it andhave intend to profit by it Indeed they havepolitical begun to do so already their politicalbegun to winnings are coming in If rumors are tohand be taken Russia has been trying her handChi on the Chinese ambassador and the Chihand nese ambassador has been trying his hand-
ofToff on the Russians to get them to hold offthe from the proposed demonstration on thehas Yanotse Strangely enough Russia has1Yangtse now droPcd dropped out of the coalition and nowEuropean England Enrland makes haste slowly EuropeanChina problems are being manipulated in Chinaprblems onon As yet the Chinaman is a green player oilgoing a European chessboard but he is goinghimhim to school and taking lessons Give hintwith practice and he will get there along withfisMisMis fis the othersDr others Dr Ashmore in Baptist Afissionary Magazine sionarti siol1aryU1gazillsiol1aryU1gazillc Magazin-
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T the The ie present century has opened up thethe Dark Continent to the knowledge of thecentury civilized cilized world The nineteenth centuryEverywi11 witness its transformation EverEver Every will brought broulitportion of the continent will be broughtThe under the reign of law and order Theslaye trade is doomed The internal warswars slave which among the various African tribes whichIta Af havee desolated such large portions of AfHerricn rica for centuries will be stopped lIerHer rivers will be covered with the fleets ofof rinfs concommerce conmerce and railroads will be built concon COcoimerce llnering neering necting into one system her mighty riversrivers rierslakesand great inland lakes To those interested in the future of thethe Negro Klgro race it would be more satisfactorysatisfactory heand hopeful ifthtse if these great changescotuld be changes could bebrought about through the power of up lifting and organizing forces developed byby the millions of native inhabitants ratherrather than under the direction and control of EuEu ropean nationalities But such evidentlyropem evidently is not to be the course of development inin giving civilization to Africa Already thegiing the entire continent has been divided oututout ut among the nations of Europe either as asISIS territorial possessions or the recognizedrecognized reconizcdinflucncesphere of influenceinfluence With th the exception of Egypt and somesome adjacent regions which are nominally subsub ject to the Turk all these nations amongject among whom the continent has been divided arearcare Christian and even in Egypt the real concon trol is in the hands of England and notnot Constantinople and it is destined to rercre main there It is therefore an interesting inquiry as to the effect which the territoterrito rial division of Africa is to have upon givgiv ing a Christian civilization to the native nativepopulation Will it open the way for thethe carly evangelization of the millions of Afearly Af ricans by giving to the Church of Christ a-aaricms most favorable opportunity of carrying toto them the gospel with its saving powerpower OwerOwer There are several considerations that leadlead to an affirmative answeranswer First the occupation of Africa by In EuroEuro pean nations must soon result in the es
tablishment of great routes of commercecommerce commerCInd centers of governmental administraand administra tion so that there will be entire security inin mission the establishment of permanent missionary stations with schools churches andand industrial arts in every section of the vastastinustrial vast ast in continent Compared with the present inbe terior missionary stations they the will bebeasily accessible in1 not suhject to the terter which rible reverses through tribal wars whichmis have been so characteristic of African misionssionsions sions Second the introduction of commercecommerce min and the development of agricultural mingive occupaeral and timber resources will gieoccupa gieoccupaoccupa tion to the native people and show themthem the possibilities that civilization opens toto them The establishment of orderly govgov gOgO bbby from living byernment will prevent people peoplefrom plunder and show them the bethctbet war and plunder iilightyter wayof way wav of constitutcmighty mighty oi peace so as to constitute forces in in favor of education industry andand social virtuesvirtues Third under these Changed conditionsconditions tinthe expenditure of life and money in thethe wi be quadrupled inin support of missions will be its efficiency Xativeconverts will soon betcdcome selfsupporting and wisely loca locatedtcd located missions will become centers to supplysupply both men and money the monlY to reach out into thethemdarker places aboutthem about aboutthemdarktr them Fourth the power of MohammedanismMohammedanism will be broken by In the destruction of thethe slave trade and the inevitable downfall downfallof the Turkish power and thus one ofof the strongest forces opposed to thethe spread of Christianity will be greatlygreatly kcncdweakened weakenedkcncd wen
Fifth the Africa territorial occupation of Africatheterritorial by the European nations must result inin awakening a deeper and more fervent mismis sionary spirit on the part of the ChristianChristian churches in those countries The Christian Christianoof people whether Catholic or Protestant ofo-
Bel England Germany France Italy Ital Belgiulli gium and Holland sense Holland must all feel the senseof personal responsibility for ChristianChristian work in the parts of the continent overover onrwhich the flag of their countries float asas they could not otherwise feel itit SIxth Sixth America occupies such an indeinde pendent position that her missionaries missionarieseverywill be protected and welcomed every where There will be no jealousy or fearfear of political complications from the prepre XcNe sence of our missionaries Educated Negroes from this country will find a warmwarm welcome and a secure and wide field ofof usefulness in commercial and industrialindustrial enterprises as well as educational andand eyangelistic evangelistic this Missionary zeal in thiscountry will be quickened and larger1argerlarger expenulitures expenditures of men and 111011 expcl1l1itures the money for theevangelization eangelization of Africa will be calledcalled calledforthThe forth The Ad vance Advance forthThe
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saidAnd he the Ethiopian said olof believe that Jesus Christ is the Son ofMissionaries 11 native assistassist God memI11C1mem ants G stations G churches 4 inein11htrship schools 3-33bership 111 baptisms 31 schoolsscholDrs scholars 124124 tbethe One nations share in theStudy TopicsOnc Topics lmericaiAmerican Americanrum curse of Africa Duty Dutl of Jl11Lric11OhstObsta 1Christialls in evangelizing Africa ObstanChristians Christians mismis 1l11S 1l11or rlliscles an incentive not an excuse for des Ssio1Itlry Centennial Ccntcl111sionary sionarv effort The Centennial-
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Wife Missionarys Wifething todelightful to most It was not a mismis111iS 111be he a missionary in Africa and even a mis iSsionarys endure sionarys wife was compelled to endureDo hardness no less than her husband Dounderstand women in Christian lands understandamong what it is to be a missionarys wife amongearth the more degraded peoples of the earth1rsMrs1rs Mrs Notice Xotice otice some of the things endured by airsChristian 1Ioffat Moflat Moffat a refined intelligent Christiannatives amon the nativesyour English woman among young cook at Kurnman She must be her own cookcoolcook for none of the natives knew how to cookfor they would not help her forIf they did the own an any consideration She must do her ownever ecrwashing washinf for none of the natives everand heard of such a thing as cleanliness andhow they were far too lazy to even learn howmust to wash And her domestic work mustinin be done with few conveniences or none inwith a wattled hut with an earth floor withInto not even the dream of a kitchen Intonativcnative this hut came one two or twenty nativeevery women filling the space prying into everyleaving thing nearly or quite naked and leavingvcrvcr wherever where a daub of red or yellow ochre whereveranything their skin happened to touch anythingThe Christian woman they regarded as a-aaor curiosity to be laughed at abused orher robbed as it pleased them When herac back was turned they all with one accord seized any article they could lay their A
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Oyster Something Better than Fairs and OysterSuppersSuppers that Our young people having decided thatdevices fairs oyster oyster suppers and similar devicesby for raising money could be superseded bymoremore moresmoresomething lettcr resolved to put one more do stone tOIlC upon such defunct schemes and dothemthem their Christian endeavor to hide thenresur from sight and bury them beyond resurand rection Recent attempts at h candy andrection supportedapron sales had been poorly supported
to and something new was sought for tofinal bring hring our last subscription up to the finaldollardollar that The suggestion of the president thatThe indollar in dotlorineach member should earn one dotlorin comingcoming way during the comingan extraordinary wayduring and bv some andtimidl by month was received timidly nthusiasmEntlhusiastnEnthusiasm others Enthusiasmenthusiastically enthusiasticallv by others last carried the vote and we assembled lastthe week to hear the reports and receive themore ha e we had a moredollars Never before have EveryEvery interesting and amusing evening Everysome someone of the fort forty persons present had someThe thing to say and a dollar to give Therere ways adopted to earn the money were relaughter hearsed and frequent bursts of laughterenjoenjoy and handclapping testified to our enjoyem ment A prize was offered to the one emitploying ploring the most unique method and it was given to a quiet young girl who mod
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Share The Lords Shareat A rich merchant in St Petersburg atna his own cost supported a number of naasked tive missionaries in India He was askedreplied one day how he could do it He repliedone aaWhen I served the world I did it on aand grand scale and at princely expense andof when by His grace God called me out ofhavehavedarkness I resolved Christ should have
yomore than the world had had But if yo you would know how I can give so much youwould n givewho enables me to give must ask of Hiconvversion r sion I told the Lord Hi condsion it At my con busit1Sbusineshouldhaye part of all my busines have a part cause should
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hehe ort of work ought to bemonths of this sort Of gin to show yery tangible results Ofit course money is not missions nor can itof of prayer or the work oftake the place ofprayer two the Holy Spirit But giycn these last twodid the first wil1 follow A Saviour who didat not give himself would be no Saiour atal1 al1 gieall a lover of missions who failed to givegie reports her money is a contradiction The reportsfrom the treasurers of the Boards areare from ThequarterIy quarterly reports frommost meagre Tile y MI U given in this department areW are from small compared with the territory fromYe must bestirWe hestirwhich they are drawn hestir ourselves by every available means withinwithin immediate our reach to attain practical immediateDavDav results The Centennial Childrens Daywho offers this opportunity to each of us whomissions are at work for missionsA mission worker is general1y engagedengaged influencein the Sundavschool Let our influence 1e there felt in keeping the day and itsits One purposes before the minds of all Oneearnest consecrated woman who will notnot be discouraged nor defeated can insureinsure success of the undertakinginin a Sundathesuccessoftile the SundaySunda Sunday oneschool Surely we have more than one 111
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MakeIakethe ohjtct of a mothers prayers Iake otot the tilling of the chapel canis a subject offolks family emulation assist the young folksthem by plans for making money 1110nlY and help themto understand the nced for it-it pic Tlhe program itself with its heautiful picThe interctiinterct tures illustrate of rm Cnrcs interestng ing the ing history for which thanks are lrc due thewill American Baptist Publication Society willmemento of01 0be an instructive and valuahle mcmcnto he 1the for the occasion Enol1h will he provided foreveryeach eeryeery elch school ohserving the day that every thethe scholar may have a copy for use on tilecon occasion and for prtlrytttion The condition for securing the nccessary supply is-is for a promise to make a colltction nnd forBoards ward to the Home lnd Foreign Boardstimetime S n C ns a Centcnnial olTtring Xo tunesuperinten may now he lost Get yonr superintenLexLex dent to send his order at once to n Baltimore ington street new address BaltimoreMaryland statingstatinstating Iaryland Baptist Iission Rooms statin with the average attendance of his school withwill his postoffice address and the order willtrmstrongbe promptly fil1edllicc trmstrong ArmstrongHelperslHelpersCentennial entennial Helpers entennial
Will1 it not cheer and also spur us toto been know that the chapel cards havc beenIexIex adopted in some of our stations in iexforeign ico and the new Christians in that foreignfield poor thongh they arc propose toto Mlrlr have a share in this grand work rMcCormick IcCormick has taken ten for Zacatecas ZacatecaIcCormick audrr Powel1 twenty Mr aud srr tr Goldsmith andMr will also contributions Iose llso seek contributionsMr Ir Moseley in through thm A converted Chinaman inre Baltimore Charlie Sum Kee has just recard turned 500 on a Home Iission cardSurely none med refuse to take a card andand Sure1 Sure1 AA A go to work l1
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this Committee this year to awake in ourour women some more concern for the lostlost tltlI the and to call some new laborers into theharvestharvest Ihancst hancstOur meeting at Spartanburg was full ofof Ve have some noble helpers inWe in hlessing blessing South Carolina and it was sweet to talktalk togetherand pray together The following resolutions were passed 1 That we make special effort during thethe number Centennial year to increase the numberwe of members in our societies 2 That wenum make special efforts to increase the numeach ber ber of societies 3 That we resolve eachone to make some new acts of selfdenial Centennial durin Centennial4 That we endeavor during hoyeersyear to get one contribution howeverhowever our small from every Baptist woman in ourma1l small StateState in Wee have not made the progress infor childrens work that we had hoped forworkers IIt It seems especially hard to get workerssuccesssuccess SUcesswho can organize and maintain successThirtyThirty fully fuHy societies among the children new band were organized in 1891 ThereThere new to wcre last year ninetyseven subscribers towere monthlmonthly monthl the Programs and Leaflets for monthlyBaptiStBaptist Our State paper the Baptistmeetings hearty Courier continues to give us its heartywe freely all the space wesupport and offers u s freelyal1 of he prospect ofwant Wee are rejoiced at tthe pre services and prehaviingthe having the personal scrvicesnt1l1 again hmingthcpfrsonal thet1ethe sence of our Corresponding Secetary tileIn originator of the work in our State Inoriinator YoWoWo theWoof theWo the President be bethe the to up her hiving giving giing we lissiol1arv Union wee felt that wemans Missionary work large sacrifice for the general workmade a largescrifice her and will joyfully welcome her back to herac old place hoping much from this large acCommitteeCommitteCommittee Commtteeour to strength cession of teeCommitteetee Committee Mrs John Stout for the Commit eMrsJohn JIrsJo1m CALLmCALLAA MISSIONARY CALL AIlKIDGKD BRIDGED IlKIDGKD UDGED FOR FOREIGN
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RichlandRichlancRichland 50 Union Noo Div Spartanburg Asson 1220 nTaylors Taylors nTalors ch for Centennial Fund 1 2250 Building BuildinJMtt Zion ch by J H Dodd Tr for Centennial CenteunialChapel Chapel BuildingWmTrumble Tmmble Union llnion by Wm ch byJ I Bunch 3322 22 Bethel ch by U 64 Big Stevens Creek chbyj Bethelch S225-55Tr S225 BeasonTr225BFund 2204 BSS Beason BeasonTr225 5 E ChapelBolen Chapel Geo by Master Tribble Centennial Feaster Anderson for Bethany cll ethany 95 S S Pendleton St ch Greenville by G A Norwood for Centennial 99- j Building Fund Fun CcntcnCcntenof which 08O for North orth China 2093 for CentenCcntcn Iiss F P Wilson Tr C C W M1 S lor By Miss nfal 103fi13132 Orangeburg S S Convention by J IP SmookTr Smook Tr 10351035 nial Chapel Building Fund 51807 Total 51807Previously Prcdously reported 133310 Total this year 185117T185117 18511Zion ch by I P Trotter 630 By Mrs ch TENNESSEE Irs L D Eakin TrW ENNESSEEZion ENNESSEE Tr W M S 1st ch7TIISSJEZion TIISSJEZion S M ch Chatnooga 1101000 Y L Chattanooga SIOGO Chatnooga 110 M S Istch lstch lstchChatnoogall490 Y P UVlstch lstchChatnoogall S1st L1 trs R E Nowlin Martins 50 cts Salem ch by T F-FFS S 1st ch Chattanooga 1067 By Mrs 11 Johnston 2 Miss Fordtown FordtownIiss Lizzie Roller Forl1townShaver 80 cts Cumberland Gap Asson by I MJohnston ShanI ig Hatchic A5S0IBySS W Hampton Tr Big Shankland for Centennial Fund 5 By by Miss 1ss S E S Shanklandfor Asson Woodcock Tennessee W I81j By M Baptist Conv of which 1225 for CentennialCentennial Tr 2815 W1 W-W fiO W B C By B WTippett By which Knoxville of 5 for Centennial Fund Fund 250 Fun 9213 M SS North Y Quisenberry North Edgefield ch 1020 W QuiscnberryXorth Burtonsorth Edgefield ch 250 Mrs Burtons M W1 5 5th Sunday meeting by W S Duncan Dun S S class for Chapel Fund 285 By R H DunBoard gan TrBuffalo 50 Fordtown ch 15 Exec Board1131 Fordtown S S Tr Buffalo Ridge ch 250 1 Hicks 7G Friendship Asson by J II 22176221707525 Total 22170 Previously reported 50005 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months an continues nine monthsThe The next session begins September 21dd and fuel Hxprn1cs Expenses per session of a resident student embracing entrance fees tuition board fueLaw student a Of about 8850 Tuition in Lawnonresident 205 05 washing shing w llights lights about l1ihts and 40 70 if only one 40SchooJ if both classes be taken School Modern ModerThe scheme of instruction embraces the eight independent schools of Latin Greek ModernProfessional and the ProfessionalLanguages nLanuaes English Mathematics Physics Chemistry and Philosophy ExpressionExpression of in the Art School of Law La w Provision is also made for systematic instruction ScienceScience The courses of instruction in the Academic Schools lead to the Degrees of Bachelor ofLawDegree of Bachelor of Law to School the in Law the Arts of and Master Bachelor of Arts in Cit of Richmond gives it unsurpassed advantages inThe location of the College in the City CoHegeCollege healthfulncss and in opportunities of improvement in addition to those afforded by the Collegehealthfulness itself itselfFor Catalogues apply at the bookstores of the city or addresaddress For facultyfaculty Chairman of the FaculB RYEAR PU PURYEAR s3tAugOct s3tAtigOct
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NXFORD XFORD is in the hill country of North Carolina noted for its healthfulness andCarolirtanoted fXFORD and 99the 0the culture of its social life For two generations and more it has been thethe radeseat of schools of high grade graderade It has connections with Seaboard AirLine and the Richmond and Danville RIt R-RIt RItsystems of the StateState The degrees conferred are B A and B S-SSThedegrees A business course of TYPEWHITING T1 PENVIOTIsG and STEXOGRATHV Y has been introduced asas STUDY STeDYalso a course of BIBLE STUDYalso The FacuU Faculty is an exceptionally strong one Several of them hold diplomas fromfrom some of the leading Schools of the worlsuch world such as the University of Virginia thethe Sauveur School of Languages the Cooper Union Art School of New Xc York the PhilaPhila delphia Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of Berlin GermanyGermainGermany Applv for Catalogue Apply F P HOBGOOD PREPREST PUE-
From President Taylor of Wake Forest A N C May Iav 10 1891 For more than twenty years Prof F P Hobgood occupied a prominent position among aJ110n the teachers of North Carolina As the Principal ofhasan academy leaderl1 at Reidsvillc and then as the President of two of the largest and most important female seminaries in the State he has made a fine reputation for scholarship and executive auitit ability The results of his as an educator are to be seen in almost ever every part of North Carolina as well as in other work States He is a man of energy and tact and is of unblemished character His zeal and faithfulness as a Christian worker are well known in all the communities in which he has livedlived lindCHARLES CHAIUS From Rev It E Hatcher
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