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EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIALNOTES NOTEtous begin our new conventional year by praying to God to LetusbeginournevconventionalyearbyprayingtoGodto

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Spiritand bless our missionaries and fill them with His Spirit keep keepandblessourmissionariesandfinthemvithHisSpirit theus give something right nowNay 1st the beginning of the Letusgivesomethingrightnov1Vlay1stthebeginningofthe Let expenses Covention year We need this month to pay regular expensesCoventionyearWeneedthismonthtopayregularexpenses must between nine and ten thousand dollars If not given we mustbetveennineandtenthousanddoJ1arsIfnotgivenvemust in suffer to allowed be the it must missionaries not borrow The borrovitThemissionariesmustnotbeallowedtosufferinthe theborrowto have foreign for is to preachers borrow enough bad lands It foreignlandsItisbadenoughforpreacherstohavetoborrov forand be in debt here in the home land We can easily pay for andbeindebthereinthehomelandWecaneasilypayfor sendand us send one give or get thousand of May during May Let lVlayduringlIayLetonethousandofusgiveorgetandsend the forward ten dollars each More than a thousand will go to theforvardtendollarseachMorethanathousandvigotothe who Convention Let our enthusiasm take a tangible turn Many whoConventionLetourenthuiasmtakeatangibleturnlVlanyyho begin do not go to the Convention can give Right now let us begindonotgototheConventioncangiveHightnovletusbegin nowaright Let all who do not believe in going in debt show it now arightLetaUhodonotblieveingoingidebtshovitnov foreign we ought to praise God for His blessings on our foreignSurely SurelyvecughttopraiseGodforHisblessingsononrforeign yearmission work during the past year missionyorkduringthepastyear toTheu1issionarieshavebeenlookingonwithdeepconcernto The missionaries have been looking on with deep concern to in do pressurein pressure home would the land the people see what the seevhatthepeopleinthehomelandyoulddointhepressure touponthevorkSomeofthemhavebeensendingcontributionstohupon the work Some of them have been sending contributions to uponthevorkSomeofthemhavebeensendingcontributionsto help elp helour On going to press we do not know how we will stand in ourget finances at the close of the year but we do know this if we getpfinancesatthecloseoftheyearbutvedoknovthisifveget financesatthecloseoftheyearbutvedoknovthisifveget more out of debt we expect to try hard to get the brethren to pay moreoutofdebtveexpecttotryhardtogetthebrethrentopaymore all promptly in the future If we do not get out wellwe must allwork take a fresh hold and try harder an ever in the Masters worktakeafreshholdandtryharderaneverithelIastersvork earnest Board at its last meeting declined to grant the earnestThe TheBoardatit*lastmeetingdeclinedtogranttheearnest declining of a missionary to come home andsee her aged decliningrequestofatnissionarytocomehomeandseeherageddec1ining request mother It was a solemn occasion with us and we considered it motherItvasasolemnoccasionvithusandvecnsidereditmotherItvasasolemnoccasionvithusandvecnsideredit

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ong but the answer was ItIt means more debt and long and the the brethrenbrethren brethrenwill not give Some day you will see that Gods kingdom and andGods children are more than hoarded bold tGodschildrenaretnorethanhoardedgold Godschildrenaretnorethanhoardedgold boldThe number of MISSION JOURNAL subscribers has decreasedhas decreased decreasedThenumberoflIISSIOXJOURNALsubscribershasdecreased very much since the consolidation We have only about half as asmany regular subscribers now as TILE FoIZEIG INlissioti JouRNAL manyregularsubscribersnowasTIlEFOREIGXlISSIONJOURNAL JouRNALformerly had aloneformerlyhadalone alone How How to get our people toto thinking and and talking and and praying andandHovtogetourpeopletothinkingandtalkingandprayingand and and giving for missions is a serious question If Christ has given usus this work to do surely that man will be honoring Him who cancan awaken His people on this subject We urge upon the pastors theavakenIfispeopleonthissubjectWeurgeuponthepastorsthe the importance of presenting the foreigh mission work at frequent inin tervals throughout the year Begin at once and keep it zcl Dont tervalsthroughouttheyearBeginatonceandkeepituDont Dontwait until just before the next conventionvaituntiljustbeforethenextconrention convention from A Mississippi brother II feel writes conAbIotherfroInNlississippivrtesIfeelsurethatourconDAbIotherfroInNlississippivrtesIfeelsurethatourcon feel sure sure that conthat our con our con tributions for 1896 to missions will be at least eight times as muchmuch as in the past few years Beloved hard times have nothing to do dowith mission contributions Preaching missions praying missionsmissions talking missions and collecting missions will always bring thethe money DIoneyDIoney Ioney DIone11

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Our missionaries Brethren Brethren LL W LawtonW Pierce Pierce and WW and W W Lawton LawtonOurnlissionariesBrethrenLWPierceandVVLavton Lawton of Chinkiang China have both been quite sick but last reports reportspronounced them convalescentpronouncedthemconvalescent convalescent Dr Dr J H Eager and and family were sail from were toto sail from Genoa Genoa April i4th April i4th14th They go direct to Bedford CityVa on arrival to see the old folks at TheygodirecttoBedfordCityVaonarrivaltoseetheoldfolksat home of our sister Eager They expect to be at the Convention homeofoursisterEagerTheyexpecttobeattheConentiotl in ChattanoogainChattanooga Miss Miss Sarah Hale our Sarah Hale willour missionary missionary atat Guadalajara Guadalajara Mexico Mexico will will be at the Convention and then visit her old home at SweetwaterbeattheConventionandthenvisitheroldhomeatSvectvater Sweetwater She is the author of that excellent book on Mexican life Tenn TennSheistheauthorofthatexcelIentbookonlIexicanlife Mercedes She has not been home for yearsMercedesShehasnotbeenhomeforyears years We have a number of interesting letters We a have missionaries number of interesting letters from Wehaveanumberofinterestinglettersfromourmissionaries from our our missionariesmissionariesmissionaries which are crowded out for want of spacevhicharecrovdedoutforvantofspace space Brother C E Brother C E Smith Smith and and family family with BrotherCEStnithandfamilyvithBrotherWPVinnand with Brother Brother W W PP Winn andWinn and and will wife probably be on out the ocean on their way to Africa whenvifevillprobablybeoutontheoceanontheirvaytoAfricavhen when this reaches our readers Let a prayer go up to God to watch overthisreachesourreadersLetaprayergouptoGodtovatchover over them and use them abundantly in His service in that dark and dis themandusethemabundantlyinHisserviceinthatdarkanddistthemandusethemabundantlyinHisserviceinthatdarkanddis disland tant tantland antland

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tITALY EDITIONITALY EDITION c D ITIO NNltITALYEIJITION ITALYEIJITION Our edition this month is especially on Italy and the work workworkOureditionthisInonthisespeciallyonItalyandthevork We are there indebted Bro to Mullins also and the Mary thereVeareindebtedtoBroEYMullinsandalsotheMary EY land Baptist Mission Rooms The latter have an excellent tract landBaptistlvIissionRoomsThelatterhaveanexcellenttract tractwhich they will soon issue This tract has been prepared by ourour beloved missionary Dr J H Eager of Florence Italy Brother BrotherbelovedmissionaryDrJIIEagerofFlorenceItalyBrother Mullins was kindly loaned the use of the manuscript from whichlIl1IIinsvaskindlyloanedtheuseofthemanuscriptfromvhich which he secured much of the information which he has so excellentlyexcellently and added to thus giving our readers a feast again in hisarranged arrangedandaddedtothusgiv1ngourreadersafeastagaininhis his own inimitable clear forceful style We all return thanks to him 011initnitableclearforcefulstyleVeallreturnthankstohim himRooms and to the M B AT RoomsITALYGOVERNMENT OF ITALY THE ITALYTHE THEGOVERNlIEiTOFITALY

Italy is a constitutional monarclvy like England The Senate Italy SenateSenateItalyisaconstitutionalmonarchylikeEnglandTheSenate Deputies Chamber of and govern the the country andChatnberofDeputiesgovernthecountrytheIingbeingabout King being aboutabout in to our authority equal President certainly not more so There ThereequalinantholitytoourPresidentcertainlynotII10resoThere is a growing tendency toward the republican form of governmentisagrowingtendencytovardtherepublicanformofgovernnlentrisagrowingtendencytovardtherepublicanformofgovernnlent government The Salic law is in vogue which provides that only males cancan reign reIgn eIgn SENATE AND CHAMBER OF THE DEPUTIEOF DEPUTIES DEPUTIETIlESENATEAXDCHAIEROFDEPUTIES

SThev correspond somewhat to Thev SThey to our our Senate and Congress thoughVthough They TheycorrespondsomewhattoourSenateandCongressthough thoughto House the nearly more of House and Lords InorenearlytotheIIouseofLordsandIIouseofommonsin of Commons inin Senators are created for life by the King on the nomiEngland nomi EnglandSenatorsarecreatedforifebytheIingonthenomi nation of a council of ministers Members of the Chamber ofof nationofacouncilofministersIVrembersoftheChamberof Deputies are elected by the people The King chooses his PrimeDeputiesareelectedbythepeopleTheIingchooseshisPrime Prime Minister who in turn selects the members of his Cabinet When WhenlIinisterhointurnselectsthemembersofhisCabinetVhen aalavh2sbeenapprovedbytheChamberofDeputiesandthe law has been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and thethe Senate it is then presented to the King by the Prime Minister forSenateitisthenpresentedtotheIingbythePrime1finisterfor for letterVhis signature without which it remains a dead letter hissignaturevithoutvhichitremainsadeadletterVOhissignaturevithoutvhichitremainsadeadletter VOTERS ITALYOTERS VOTERS IN ITALYITALY VOTERSIXITALY OTERS I ITALY TERSIXITALY

A recent law has greatly extended the Italythe right of of suffrage inin Italy ItalyArecentlavhasgreatlyextendetherightofsufIrageinItaly so that now all men of age who can read and write and who pay payaacertainamountoftaxmayvoteThenumberofvotershov certain amount of tax may vote The number of voters howhow is comparatively small as millions are unable to read and ever andeveriscomparatrelysmallasmillionsareunabletoreadand few who can read do not pay the required amount of taxes a not taxesnotafevvhocanreaddonotpaytherequiredamountoftaxes Rome in 1889 out In only of aa population of out of of nearly 400000 InRomein1889outofapopulationofnearly400000only only 400000 onlyvoted45000vereentitledtovoteandoftheseonly16000actuallyvoted 45000 were entitled to vote and of these only i6ooo actually voted many do not appreciate the responsibilities and duties of citiVery Verymanydonotappreciatetheresponsibilitiesanddutiesofciti citi zenship

POLITICAL ITALPOLITICAL PARTIES IN ITALY PARTIES IN ITALY POLITICALPARTIESINITALY ITAL-

YThere are three principal political parties in There thedie Right the thein Italy the 1herearethreeprincipalpoliticalpartiesinItalytheRightthe Italythe Left and the Centrenames which signify the positions they occupy LeftandtheCentrenamesvhichsignifythepositionstheyoccupy

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in Parliament with reference to the President LeftThe Right and Left represent the two extremes of Radicalism and Conservatism while representthetVOextremesofRadicalismandConservatislnvhile whilethe Centre is the organ of the moderate party which claims to be bea kind of balancewheel between the other two Since 1870 when whenthe Pope lost his temporal power and Rome became the capital of Italy there have been two strong tendencies in politicsclericalism politicsclericalism-

and anticlericalism The contest has been sharp and bitter and andobstinate but in almost every important question the liberal party anticlerical has come off victorious The latest victory of this thisparty was the grand festival in Rome and throughout Italy on Sep tember 20 189 to celebrate the twentyfifth anniversary of the cap ture of the city The discourse of the Prime Minister on this oc occasion fell like a great bomb in the clerical camp There are other disturbing tendencies in Italian political life including the republican and socialistic element There are reasons to fear that the clerical party will seek to unite socialists and anan archists with themselves so as to use them for their own purposes Under existing conditions conscientious Italian statesmen have all that hands and head and heart can do dothathandsandheadandheartcando thathandsandheadandheartcanTHE CITIES OF ITALY AND THEIR GOVERNMENT THECITIESOFITALYAXDTIIEIIGOYERXIEXT GOVERNMENTThere There are about one hundred cities in very large num ber when it is remembered that Italy is no larger than Georgia and Florida combined The principal cities are Rome Naples Milan Turin Florence Venice Genoa Bologna Pisa Leghorn Bari Pa lermo Besides these cities there are thousands of towns VeryVery J few people reside in the country even many farmers and day laborers preferriig to live in town though this necessitates a long walk both morning and evening Crowds of men and women womenmarching out of town early in the morning armed with spades and hoes is a strange sight to an AmericanhoesisastrangesighttoanAmericanTHEShoesisastrangesighttoanAmerican American The cities are governed very much as in our own country Each Eachcity has a mayor and municipal council elected by the people In the smaller cities having a population of less than 5ooo the mayor is appointed bythe prefect of the province provinceTHE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN ITALY THESYSTEMOFEDUCATIOXIXITALYTHESYSTEMOFEDUCATIOXIXITALY YSTEMOFEDUCATIOXIXITALY ITALYItaly leas thirteen universities a great many colleges acadeand acade mies and not less than ten thousand public schools Besides these there are a great many private schools Most of the present ration between the ages of ten and twenty car read though gene great ignorance prevails among those who grew up before the present government came into power and while education was ex clusively in the hands of the priests Of these there arealmost probably fifteen millions who cannot read A great impetus however has

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effectsbeen given to education in these late years and the good effects beengiventoeducationintheselateyearsandthegoodefficts hasare already plainly seen It should not be forgotten that Italy has arealreadyplainlyseenItshouldnotbeforgottenthatItalyhas many of produced the men of in the everyworld great every and that producedmanyofthegreatInenofthevorldandthatinevery profession there are today men of cultivation refinement and highhigh professiontherearetodayInenofcultivationrefinementandhigh attainments MORALITY IN ITALY 110RALITYINITAIY ITALYThe Therestate of morality in Italy is sad and discouraging The There ThestateofmoralityinItalyissadanddiscouragingThere are to many beautiful exceptions the general rule but the of tone aremanybeautifulexceptionstothegeneralrulebutthetoneofof-

theis low the chief thought of many being not to avoid the morals Inorasisovthechiefthoughtofmanybeingnottoavoidthe evil a to but escape scandal of In this respect the Church ofevilbuttoescapeascandalInthisrespecttheChurchof Rome has set the example and is largely responsible for Italys sadsad RomehassettheexatnpIeandislargelyresponsibleforItalyssad conditionmoral and spiritual condition thatRecently a prominent daily of Rome La Tribuna stated that crime is becoming more frequent in Italy than in any other countrycountry critneisbecomingmorefrequentinItalythaninanyothercountryI Europe Brigandage has been largely suppressed but murdersof murders ofEuropeBrigandagehasbeenlargelysuppressedbutmurders are still very common As a rule the cause may be expressed inin arestillverycommontsarulethecausemaybeexpressedin fretwo 10vordsvineandvomenSuicidesalsoaredistressinglyfre wordswine and women Suicides also are distressingly fre Two quent most trivial reasons often being given for the deed TwoquentmosttrivialreasonsoftenbeinggivenforthedeedTvo committeda beautiful committed man women young twenty young and of beautifulyoungvotnenandayoungmanofhventycommitted the suicide together in Rome and the following letter was found on thesuicidetogetherinRomeandthefollovinglettervasfoundonthetsuicidetogetherinRomeandthefollovinglettervasfoundonthe table able ParadiseBefore you receive this I shall be in Paradise Dear DearBeforeyoureceivethisIshallheinParadise me I am sure of a hearty welcome because I shall bring with meand andIamsureofaheartyvelcon1ebecauseIshallbringvithme two beautiful angelsNangels hvohehutifulangels ITALYNEWSPAPERS NEVSPAPERSANDOTHERCURRENTPUBLICATIONSINITALY EWSPAPERS AND OTHER CURRENT PUBLICATIONS IN ITALY

beingbeing Daily and weekly newspapers are abundant some of them beingUDailyandeeklynevspapersareabundantsomeofthembeing theseably conducted and having an immense circulation Most of these ablyconductedandhavinganimmensecirculationltfostofthese above papers are not at all religious in tone but they are perhaps abovepapersarenotatallreligiousintonebuttheyareperhapsabove ten many of our large dailies at home and less injurious in their tenmanyofourlargedailiesathomeandlessinjuriousintheirten wanting dency Able reviews and scientific periodicals are not wantingdencyAblereviewsandscientificperiodicalsarenotranting valuable thoughjuvenile1iteratureisgreatlyneglectedSOineveryvaluabl though juvenile literature is greatly neglected Some very valuableSmilesSmiles for works example from of the translations translationsfromEnglishasforexamplethevorksofSmiles Englishas De AmicisAmicis have appeared and are having a large circulation haveappearedandarehavingalargecirculationDeAmicis for youngyoung a book the of wrote the most popular writer Italy recently themostpopularvriterofItalyrecentlyvroteabookfortheyoung of vhichhasalreadypassedthroughnearlytVOhundrededitionsof which has already passed through nearly two hundred editions ofbeen one thousand each This is partly due to the fact that it has beenonethousandeachThisispartlyduetothefactthatithasbeen in the public schoolsschools adoptedinthepublicschoolsUadopted adoptedinthepublicschools ITALYITALY UNITED UNITEDITALY NITED NITEDITALY kingdomskingdomdivided into several petty kingdoms was Until recently Italy UntilrecentlyItalyvasdividedintoseveralpettykingdoms greatdukedomsrepublicsandthePapalStatesAsaconsequencegreat dukedoms republics and the Papal States As a consequence great desperate After a long and desperateenmity discord and confusion reigned enmitydiscordandconfusionreignedAfteralonganddesperate ItalianstrugglewhichculminatedonSeptember201870vhentheItalian struggle which culminated on September 20 1870 when the Italian army entered Rome all Italy gathered about Victor Emmanuel and armyenteredROIneallItalygatheredaboutVictorEmmanueland

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a popular vote by ofof the entire nation declared him the first king of ofvoteof byapopularvoteoftheentirenationdeclaredhimthefirstkingof of United Italy This unification of Italy is one of the most important importantUnitedItaly1hisunificationofItalyisoneofthemostimportant events of modern times and seems to have been Gods way of openopen Rome and the whole of Italy to the preaching of the gospeing gospel ingRomeandtheholeofItalytothepreachingofthegospe1 famous motto lCavors Cavors A free Church in a Free State is still thethe Cavorsfamousmotto1freeChurchinaFreeStateisstillthe motto of United Italy much to the sorrow and disgust of the PopePope mottoofUnitedItalymuchtothesorroanddisgustofthePope and his followers Victor Emmanuel Cavour dAzeglio MazziniMazzini Garabaldi Caivoli and many others who took so prominent a part partin the unification of Italy have passed away brit we are enjoyingenjoying laborsV fruit of their laborsthe thefruitoftheirlaborsTillabors thefruitoftheirlabors RELIGION OF THE TILE OF ITALY THE ITALTilERELIGIOXOFITA1Y ITALERELIGIOXOFITA1Y YCatholicism Catholicism is the religion of of the State but all all sects are nownow are now O tolerated The Pope who loveth to isto have the preeminence isis preemninence is by no means satisfied with this arrangement and hence lie is in inconstant warfare with the government doing is utmost to preventprevent the priests entertaining sentiments of patr iotisin and brotherly love loveOcOc evil has been the resultIncalculable IncalculablecvilhasbeentheresuhTHIncalculablecvilhasbeentheresuhIncalculablecvilhasbeentheresuh result THE DISESTABLISHMENOF DISESTABLISHMENT IIIE HOIE OF IIESTAILLISIDIENTMTHEHOPEOFIISESTABI4ISIDIET EHOPEOFIISESTABI4ISIDIET TIt far It may away but faith says says itit will inmar be will surely come come even even in inin Italy and that all sects will stand on an equal footing Until thatthat day arrives Cavours motto cannot be fully realized Italian statesstates men will require great wisdom and courage for the accomplishmentaccomplishment of this purpose which will always find bitter and powerfiiloppopowerfiiloppo Milo ilo nents in the priests and other hierarchies of the Church The nentsinthepriestsandotherhierarchiesoftheChrchThc TheChurch of Rome is satisfied with nothing less than the liberty ofof disestablishment with all the advantages prestige protection gov government money etc of the State Church But the time is pastpast when this game can be successftilly iplayed in ItalyItaly henthisgamecanbesuccessfullyplayedinItaly J In his great speech in in Rome on year on September 20 of this 20 of this yearyearyear the Prime Minister said IS95 Crispi Religion is not and oughtought not to be a function of the State The success of this greatgreat festival the twentyfifth anniversary of the fall of the temporaltemporal power of the Pope and consequent obstinacy and bitterness of thepoerofthePopeandconsequentobstinacyandbitternessofthe the disestablisiunent papal party will probably hasten disestablisiunentMpapalpartyinprobablyhastendisestablishInentIIpapalpartyinprobablyhastendisestablishInent IN MISSIONS ITALMISSIONS IN ITALY ITALY ISSIONS ITALIISSIOXSIITAJY SSIOXSIITAJY YModern in mission Modern work began Italy in Italy about about the the middle 7fodernInissionyorkbeganinItalyaboutthemiddleofthe the middle of theof themthe present century There were several attempts at reform before thispresentcenturyTherewereseveralattemptsatreformbcforethis this notably in the sixteenth centuryj and even before Luthers clay notabhinthesixteenthcenturandevenbeforeLuthersdav The Church of Rome was was too too powerful and and too too wicked wicked toto allow allow the thethe simple gospel to have free course among the people hence successsimplegospeltohavefreecoursearnongthepeoplehencesuccess success was very partial and results were meagre So long as the PopePope had the power Protestants were forbidden to propagate their faithhadthepowerProtestantsereforbiddentopropagatetheirfaith faith on pain of banishment or death and millions were thus sacrificed onpainofbanishmentordeathandmil1ionserethussacrificed V

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A great army of martyrs will stand up on the testifyOlast day to to testify testifythelast RomeOagainsttheChurchofRomeOagainsttheChurchofRome against the Church of Rome OF ROME TO THE GOSPEL OPENING GOSPELGOSPELPENING OPEIGOFROIETOTHEGOSPEL PEIGOFROIETOTHEGOSPEL On September 20 1870 when Victor Emmanuel entered the thetheOnSeptetnber201870henVictorEmmanuelenteredthe his city of at the head victorious theRome was army opened to the cityatthehcadofhisvictoriousarmyRomevasopenedtothe of the gospel preaching It is said that when a popular vote waspreachingofthegospe1Itissaidthatvhenapopularvotevas was to decide who would be the future ruler of Rome Pius IX wascast was casttodecidehowouldbethefutureruleroRomePiusIXvas honored with less than one hundred votes The people had longlong chafed under the heavy and hateful burden of priestly rule andchafedundertheheavyandhatefulburdenofpriestlyruleand and were only too happy to throw it off at the first favorable opportunityvereonlytoohappytothroitofratthefirstfavorableopportunity opportunity THE POPE POPTIlt POPTilEPOPE TilEPOPEThe in Pope up shut himself The Vatican his magnificent palacethe palace EThePopeshuthimselfupintheTaticanhismagnificentpalace ThePopeshuthimselfupintheTaticanhismagnificentpalace palaceleclaiilly come never that le would out until Rome was given backdeclaringthatheouldnevercomeoutuntilRomewasgivenback back to him After this lie chose to call himself a prisoner and en entohimAfterthishechosetocanhimse1faprisonernden deavored to convince the nations that lie actually was such BlindedBlinded deavorecltoconvincethenationsthatheactualhvassuchBlinded by pride prejudice and ambition he failed to discern the signs ofof byprideprejudiceandambitionhefailcdtodiscernthesignsof times and after eight years of selfimposed confinement Piusthe thetilnesandaftereightycarsofselfimposedconfinementPius Pius IX lee ill the atlcan IXdiedintheatican PITT PRESENT THE POPPIZIaEN I POPE POPTIlEPJESETPOPE EThe family mime of the present Pope isis Pecci but on The on ascendingascending fhefatnilyntuneofthepresentPopeisPeccibutonascending ascendingthe papal throne he assumed the name of Leo VIII He has thethepapalthroneheassuroedthenamcofLeoXIIIIIehasthe the reputation of being a man of learning and ability and an astutereputationofbeingamanoflearningandabilityandanastute astute politician Like others before him he is ever trimming his sails to topo1iticianLikeothersbeforehimheisevertrtnminghissailsto is isIt n suit the believed generally that breeze Pope Italy is the suitthebreezeItisgeneral1ybelievedinItalythatthePopeis a more less or for than spokesman nothing his sincenothingmore01lessthanaspokesmanforhispartyaIidthatsince party and that since the restoration of the Jesuits he has come greatly under their intherestorationoftheJesuitshehascomegreatlyundertheirin in 01 0-

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Jesuits are a sect founded by Loyola in ofof in the the early part ofof heJesuitsareasectfoundedbyLoyolaintheearlypartof power century sixteenth soon They inthe acquired thesixteenthcenturyrrheysoonacquiredgreatpowerandin great and in fluence and even the Popes began to fear them one of whom whomflucnceandeenthePopesbegantofearthemoneofvhom l3enedict XLV sought to repress or even to suppress the orderorder are unscrupulous in their methods boldly claiming that theThey Theyareunscrupulousinthcirmethodsholdlyclaimingthatthe the end justifies the means It is strictly a secret society whose funfun damental principle is absolute obedience to the head of the orderdanlcntalpJucipleisabsoluteobediencetotheheadoftheorder order Jesuitsarefoundina11landsespeciallyintheUnitedStates Jesuits are found in all lands especially in the United StatesStates theyJ are makingO unceasing efforts to Ogain influence in highwhere vheretheyarel11akingunceasingeffortstogaininfluenceinhigh high O to shape and guide the places es the political life life of esof the placestoshapeandguidethepoliticallifeofthenationandes the nation nation and es and especially to control the education and the press Their name haspeciallytocontroltheeducationandthepressheirnamehas has become the very synonym of all that is hypocritical and satanicbeconlctheerysynonymofa1lthatishypocriticalandsatanic satanic woe to tale youth who ire trained in their chools and to the nationVoetotheyouthhoaretrainedintheirchoosandtothenation nation hichfallsilndertheirinfluencehichfallsilndertheirinfluence falls undertheir influencewhich influence In Italy the Jesuits have not perhaps as leave not in as much mucih influence as as inin O-

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dreadedsome other countries where they are less known and dreaded someothercountriesvheretheyarelessknovnanddreaded in Since the restoration of their rights by the present Pope their inSincetherestorationoftheirrightsbythepresentPopetheirin fluence fluencehasbeenincreasingPRincreasingPhas been increasing fluencehasbeenincreasing ITALYPREACHING THE GOSPEL IN ITALY REACHING PREACHINGTHEGOSPELINITALY EACHINGTHEGOSPELINITALY gospelSince Since1870allItalyhasjbeenopentothepreachingofthegospel 1870 all Italy has been open to the preaching of the gospel invaluaand the present liberal government is constantly rendering invalua andthepresentliberalgovrnmentisconstantlyrenderinginvalua ble missionariesservice in maintaining the rights and privileges of missionaries bleserviceintnaintainingherightsandprivilegesofmissionarie

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OPPOSITIOOPPOSITIO NVery Very much opposition is encountered which in some places VerytnuchoppositionisencounteredwhichinSOIneplacesis

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both bitter and dangerous dangerousbothbitteranddangerous In almost every instance it is the result of priestly influence influenceInalmosteveryinstanceitistheresultofpriestlyinfluence Many of the people especially in the Country and smaller townstowns are ready and willing to hear the truth but the priests do everthing arereadyandvillingtohearthetruthbutthepriestsdoeverthing in their power to prevent this In the confessionals they warn theirtheir intheirpovertopreventthisIntheconfessionalstheyvarntheir penitents especially the more ignorant and superstitious amongpenitentsespeciallythemoreignorantandsuperstitiousamong among them against Protestants and Protestantism assuring them thatthat themagainstProtestantsandProtestantistnassuringthemthat their doctrines are wicked and ruinous In many cases absolutiontheirdoctrinesarevickedandruinousIntnanycasesabsolution absolution and communion are refused to those who attended Protestant meetandcommunionarerefusedtothosevhoattendedProtestantmeet meet ings except on condition of confession penance and a solemnsolemn promise never to repeat the offence The pulpit is also used espepromisenevertorepeattheoffenceThepulpitisalsousedespe espe cially in the towns to accomplish the same purposeoutrageous andciallyinthetownstoaccomplishthesamepurposeoutrageousand and wilful misrepresentations being given out as truth In this way thethe minds of many are prejudiced and poisoned Very often BiblesmindsofmanyareprejudicedandpoisonedVeryoftenBibles Bibles tracts are taken away from those who have received them andand andtractsaretakenavayfromthosevhohavereceivedthemand and ruthlessly willdestroyed by the priest Sometime a village priest will ruthlesslydestroyedbythpriestSometimeavillagepriestvill stir up a crowd of his fanatical followers to assail the preacher oror colporteur and drive him from their town meanwhile threatening death should he returndeathshouldhereturnOTdeathshouldhereturn return OTHER OTHERDIFFICULTIESENCOUNTERED DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED ENCOUNTEREHERDIFFICULTIESENCOUNTERED

DPerhaps Perhaps the greatest impediment to successful evangelization isPerhapsthegreatestimpedimenttosuccessfulevangelizationis is indifference to spiritual things The present absorbs the attention indifferencetospiritualthingsThepresentabsorbstheattention attentionof the people and in the main religion has been reduced to a meremere form Ignorance superstition and prejudice abound and infidelityinfidelity and materialism are very common Very often when good impresimpres sions have been made the fear of public opinion or the criticism ofof ones immediate circle has a most chilling and withering effecteffect Ah how the missionary sometimes longs for that blessed timetime when the devil shall be bound and shall no longer go forth to dede ceive the nations ceivethenations ENCOURAGEMENTENCOURAGElEZTS SPublic Public opinion with regard to Protestants and Protestantism isPublicopinionwithregardtoProtestantsandProtestantismis is a gradual change for the better undergoing undergoingagradualchangeforthebetterIIndredsofthundergoingagradualchangeforthebetterIIndredsofthou Hundreds of thou

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homes sands of Bibles and tracts are silently at work in those homessandsofBiblesandtractsaresilnt1yatvorkinthosehomes Thousandswhere the priest has not been able to destroy them Thousands vherethepriesthasnotbeenabletodestroythemThousands gradually the gospel every year Prejudice and ignorance are graduallyhear hearthegospeleveryyearPrejudiceandignorancearegradually truth and many hearts are being prepared for the truthdisappearing disappearingandmanyheartsarebeingpreparedforthetruth evan There are evidences that we are entering a new era in the evanbe gelization of Italy The Holy Spirit seems to be dealing with begelizationofItaly1heIIolySpiritseemstobedealingvithbe more lievers and unbelievers as never before Conversions are morelieversandunbelieversasneverbeforeConversionsaremore manifesting frequent and a new spirit of consecration and zeal is manifestingfrequentandanevspiritofconsecrationandzealismanifesting appro itself among Christian workers More faith is needed to approitselfamongChristianyorkersIorefaithisneededtoappro priate the exceeding great and precious promisespromises priatetheexceedinggreatandpreciousproInises MISSIONARIES IN ITALY THE THEIISSIOXARIESIXITALY ITAL-

EnglishY1Valdensians 1Valdensians ValdensiansEnglishvVesleyanAmericanlVfethodistEnglish English Wesleyan American Methodist English Brethrenand American Baptists Free Italian Church Plymouth Brethren andAn1ericanBaptistsFreeItalianChurchPlymouthBrethren Italyand Reformed Catholic are all at work in Italy Unitarian UnitarianandRefonnedCatholicareallatvorkinItaly in engaged inare About and About250I11issionariespastorsandeyangelistsareengagedin evangelists 250 missionaries pastors fiftyfifty and hundred the work or in the proportion of one to one thevorkorintheproportionofonetoonehundredandfifty asMultitudes of Italians have not yet heard the Gospel as thousand thousandIVlultitudesofItalianshave110tyetheardtheGospelas itpreached by evangelicals though all might hear it preachedbyevangelicalsthoughallmighthearit IEMBEROF CHURCH IEMBERS NUMBER NUIBEROFCHURCHMElBERS

con SAccording According to the latest statistics about six thousand are conAccordingtothelateststatisticsaboutsixthousandarecon

nected with the various churches These however represent aanectedviththevariouschurchesThesehoveverrepresenta evangelicalssmall part of the results of Christian work Many evangelicals smallpartoftheresultsofChristianvorkfanyevangelicals scattered have died many have removed to other lands many are scatteredhavediedmanyhaveremoyedtootherlandsmanyarescattered onhere and there throughout Italy whose names no longer appear on hereandtherethroughoutItalyvhosenamesnolongerappearon have Many have probably accepted the truth who havethe church roll thechurchrolllianyhaveprobablyacceptedthetruthvhohave influence not made a public profession of their faith The indirect influencenotnladeapublicprofessionoftheirfaithTheindirectinfluence presentpresent is at work of of the the part perhaps evangelicals largest ofevangelicalsisperhapsthelargestpart0fthevorkatpresent aloneOne alone estimated be by though and this fully can thoughthiscanbefullyknovnandestimatedbyOnealone knovn MEANS PEOPLIEAXSIDIPLOYEDTOREACHTHEPEOPLE EMIILOI ED TO REACH THE PEOPLE

work EThese ThesearestatedpreachingoftheGospelevangelisticyork These are stated preaching of the Gospel evangelistic workSundayhouseto11ouse housetolousevisitationcolportagevorkdayschoolsandSunday visitation colportage work dayschools and Sunday etcIschools medical dispensaries religious newspapers etc schoolsmedicaldispensariesreligiousnevspapersetc

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Ameri SThe TheItalianpreacherscompareveryfavorablyviththeAmeri The Italian preachers compare very favorably with the Amerifinecans in some things Some Italian preachers are men of fine diffdiffi of midst in the on work their ability and deep piety and carry abilityanddeeppietyandcarryontheirvorkinthemidstofdiffi iculties abrave culties and discouragements that would stagger any but abravecultiesanddiscouragementsthatvouldstaggeranybutabrave isheart heartCongregationsareusuallysnlallandthegeneralpublicis Congregations are usually small and the general public is indifference This indifferenceutterlyindifferenttopreachersandpreachingThisindifference indifferent to preachers and preaching utterly long is due in part to the fact that forms and ceremonies have so longisdueinparttothefactthatformsandceremonieshavesolong been substituted for religious instruction beensubstitutedforreligiousinstructionbeensubstitutedforreligiousinstruction

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SWhile While SWhile some are are carnal and and worldly and andand others andothers are areweak weakand and stumbling not a few are pious and spiritual and well versed in the Bible The average Italian Christian will not compare unfavorunfavor ably in many things with the average Christian at home In most mostcases the circ*mstances of Italian Christians are very tryilg andand they greatly need the prayers of Gods people The wordly curcur rent is swift and strong and almost irresistible the opposition of family and friends is often bitter and constant old errors and stiperstiper stitions and prejudices and habits inherited from past generationsgenerations sometimes drag hard and heavy and refuse to let go Besides all allthis and more in times of perplexity and want the priest is eerreer ready to hold out tempting inducements to all who will renounceeady renounce their faith and return to his flock and fold ERStbeilfaithandreturntohisflockandfold tbeilfaithandreturntohisflockandfoldCOtbeilfaithandreturntohisflockandfold foldOccasionally he lie isis successful successful and rejoicing and then then there thereisisgreat greatrejoicingCrejoicing in the Catholic camp Surely our Italian brethren need the earnest earnestand unceasing prayers of Gods people in other landsClands COLPORTAGE OLPORTAGE WORCOLIORTAGE WOKE OLIORTAGE WORK COLPORTAGEOIK WOKCOLPORTAGEOILPORTAGEOIK KThis is This one of the most difficult EThis is and This one of the most difficult andyet impor oneofofthe yetone themost most imporSimpor tant branches of the work in this country It is the business of thethe colporteur to travel from town to town and from neighborhood to toneighborhood carrying Bibles Testaments all tracts speaking to the people in their homes in their shops in their fields by thethe roadside or wherever they can be induced to listen About fifty men are thus employed but a thousand well qualified men couldcould easily be utilized in this work and were they full of faith and the Holy Spirit they would soon create such a stir as has not been witwit nessed in this land for centuries Will not missionary societies societiesand individual Christians pray that the needed men fully equippedand qualified may be raised up on the field and thrustequipped byJ thethe SpiritintothevorkSUXSpirit KSpiritintothevork workSSpiritintothevork into the work SUNDAY UNDAY AND

ITALYSUNDAY UNDAY AND DAY DAY SCHOOLS SCHOOLS IXINITALY SUXDAYAXDDAYSCHOOLSIXITALYSUXDAYAXDDAYSCHOOLSIXITALY DAYAXDDAYSCHOOLSIXITALY ITALYITALY A good has been in made Sundayschool A good beginning Abeginning as been made in Sundayschoolwork work A A few churches have large and prosperous Still dayschools but most of them are small and this chiefly for two reasons first the churches are usually small and hence there are few because connected with the congregation and second because itchildren is most difficult to gain ail influence over children of Catholic families so as to brim then into the Sundayschool and keep there Through the parents the priests control the children them But there is gradual and encouraging progress along this line The The Free Free Church Church the the Wesleyans Wesleyans the the Waldenses Waldenses and and lately lately the American Methodists are paying special attention to day

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andandschool school work and together they have hundreds of children and schoolrorkandtogethertheyhavehundredsofchildrenand smallIn most of these schools a small youths under their instruction wheretuition fee is required There are also several orphanages where tUItIonfeeisrequiredTherearealsoseveralorphanagesvhere tradestrades various received and taught boysandgirlsarereceivedandtaughtvarioustrades boys and girls are ITALYITALY ITALY MISSIONSS IN ITALYMEDICAL EDICALIISSIONSINITLY ononon several of the large cities medical mission work isis carried on In Inseveraloftlelargecitiesmedicalmissionyorkiscarriedon whofew who The year every treated are patients of and thousands andthousandsofpatientsaretreatedeveryyearThefevho object The objecthaveundertakenthisbranchfeelmuchencouragedTheobject have undertaken this branch feel much encouraged nursingmedicine attention and nursing is istofurnishthepoorvithInedicalattentionnledicineandnursing to furnish the poor with medical reason Hospitals are very expensive and for this reasonfree of charge freeofchargeIIospitalsareveryexpensiveandforthisreason present For the presentevangelicals have only three or four in all Italy evangelicalshaveonlythreeorfourinallItalyForthepresent and Inedicalmissionaryorksapartialsubstituteforthehospitaland medical missionary work is a partial substitute for the hospital andearnest deserves the sympathy and aid of the christian public An earnestdeservesthesympathyandaidofthechristianpublicAnearnestJ1J and is also made to evangelize the sick and suffering ones andeffortisalsomadetoevangelizethesickandsufferingonesand effort foundnotafervhocomeseekinghealingforthebodyonlyhavefound not a few who come seeking healing for the body only have found wellspiritualhealingasellEXGspiritual healing as well spiritualhealingasell CHURCHES IN ITALENGLISH I ITALY ITALEXGLISHCHURCHESINITALY LISHCHURCHESINITALY YThe Free FreeEpiscopal Church Church of of England Enrland and the FreeBThe TheEpiscopalChurchChurchofEnglandandtheFree in ChurchofScotlandtogetherhavenotlessthanhventychurchesin Church of Scotland together have not less than twenty churches inthe and preachingtwo or three times a week except during theItalyandpreachingtvoorthreetimesaveekexceptduringthe Italy especially In Naples Leghorne Spezia and especiallysumlnerseasonInNaplesLeghorneSpeziaandespecially summer season onon carried work encouraging and a important is very Genoathereisaveryimportantandencouragingyorkcarriedon Genoa there GerGer and several also French are amongEnglishsailorsTherearealsoseveralFrenchandGer among English sailors There workmanchurchesinItalyvithvariousbranchesofChristianvork man churches in Italy with various branches of Christian work connected with them connectedviththem IN BAPTISTS ITALAPTISTS I ITALY ITALBAPTISTSINITALY

whomYThere whomin Italy three of of whom There YThere are seventeen Baptist missionaries ThereareseventeenBaptistDissionariesinItalythreeofvhom missionaries in

Englisharefnlericanandtherelnainc1erEnglish American and the remainder English are Miss MissW K Landels and wife in Rev in Turin Rev EE Clarke MissIRevVIandeIsandwifeinTurinRevEClarke111s8 and Clarke and Miss Smith in Spezia Rev N II Shaw and wife andClarkeandIIissStnithinSpeziaRevNIIShavandifeand TaylorRev John H Eager and wife in Florence Rev George B Taylor RevJohn1EageranddfeinFlorenceevGeorgeB1aylor and Rev RevJanlesVallandifeandRevCanlpbellVallandvifeand James Wall and wife and Rev Campbell Nall and wife andNaplesIwife in Naples and Walker Rev lIissYatesinlomeevRobertValkerandifeinNaplesITALIin Rome Robert Yates lIissYatesinlomeevRobertValkerandifeinNaples Miss

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ThereItaly There SThere Thereare thirtytwo Italian Baptist preachers in There TherearethirtytwoItalianBaptistpreachersinItalyThere in Italy womenarealsoseveralcolporteursHndBibleVOnlen also several colporteurs Ind Bible women are

churchmembers are about seven hundred Baptist churchmemberschurchmembersThere ThereareaboutsevenhundredBaptistchurchmembers ConvenConvenForeign Mission Board of The of the the Southern Baptist Conven TheForeign1IissionBoardoftheSouthernBaptistConven eighteenThere are about eighteen tion began work in Italy in iS7o j work workItalian Italianpreachersconnectedyiththeirork Italian preachers connected with their workjust are stationed in justThey in Torre Pellice San Remo Cannes justTheyaretationedinTorrePel1iceSanRemoCannesjust Genoa Carpi Venice Milan Florence Italian border the beyondtheItalianborderiIilanTeniceGenoaCarpiFlorenceFbeyond beyondtheItalianborderiIilanTeniceGenoaCarpiFlorence D

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BariBari Rome Naples Boscoreale at the foot of Vesuvius Portici BariCRomeNaplesBoscorealeatthefootofVesuviusoriciBari IglesiasIglesias Miglionico Gravina and in the island of Sardinia Cagliari 1YliglionicoGravinaandintheislandofSardiniaCaghanIglesIas the and Cuglieri A station has lately been opened in Palermo theandCuglieriAstationhaslatelybeenopenedinPalermothe are chief city of Sicily Besides these centres many other places arechiefcityofSicilyBesidesthesecentresmanyotherplacesare visited CONCLUSIOONCLUSION CONCLUSIOCONCLUSION

diflicutiesINItaly diflicutiesItaly must be evangelized The field isis hard and the the diflicuties ItalymustbecyangelizedThefieldishardandthediflcuties all very needs The needsveryOTeatbutfaithcanandillriseabovethernalLIheneeds great but faith can and will rise above them

are manifold but the greatest of all is a band of native evangelists evangelistsaremll1foldbutthegreatestofallisabandofnativeevangelists and colporteurs frill of faith and the 1loly Spirit For this let GodsGods andcolporteursfulloffaithandtheIIolySpiritForthisletGods people pray without ceasing ceasingIpeopleprayvithoutceasing peopleprayvithoutceasi-

CONVERTSITALIAN TALIAN CONVERTSITALIANCONVERTS TALIAN CONVERTS populationThe number in of is Italy yet comparatively small converts iii populationlation is ThenumberofconvertsinItalyisyetcomparativelysmallOutofapop Out of small Out ofaa population of nearly thirty millions less than ten thousand are members of our churches HunHun otnearlythirtymillionslessthantenthousandaremembersofourch rchesHun dreds influenceof thousands however have been brought more or less under the influence uenc dresofthousandshoweverhavebeenbroughtmoreorlessundertheinf of the gospel not a few of whom have doubtless become true believers though seofthegospelnotafewofwhomhavedoubtlessbecometruebelieversth se ughse cretly through fear Striking proofs of this have come to the knowledge ofmore moreofmorecretlythroughfearStrikingproofsofthishavecometotheknowledg of more

than one Christian worker in ItalythanoneChristianworkerinItaly Italy the value and glory of If encounteredof success Ifthevalueandgloryofsuccessareinproportiontothedifficultie success are the difficulties encountered are inin proportion toto the encounteredand overcome then the winning of a soul for Christ in this papal land deserves specialspecial andovercomethenthevinningofasoulforChristinthispapallanddc enesspecial mention and must give peculiar joy to the angels in heaven thementionandmustghepeculiarjoytotheangelsinheavenItislikebea It is like bearding the dinthe in his den or attacking the strong man in his favorite castle or snatching lion lioninhisdenorattackingthestrongmaninhisf1voritecastleorsn branda brand tchingabrandtchingabrand from some great burningfromsomegreatburning burning process of The thoughthough in Italy isis generally aa long of winning aa soul TheprocessofwinningasoulinItalyisgenerallyalongandtediouso soul in long and thoughand tedious tedious one though oneethough there are some remarkable exceptions to this rule A case in point is thattofawoman therearesomeremarkableexceptionstothisruleAcaseinpointisth woman of a womanwho was not satisfied till she had gone patiently through the New Testament whowasnotsatisfiedtillshehadgonepatientlythroughtheNewTest comcom mentcom paring the Protestant and Catholic translations Many who hear the gospel paringtheProtestantandCatholictranslationsManywhohearthego atbegin at pelbeginat once to compare it with their own system of belief It is not so much a matter oncetocompareitwiththeirownsystemofbeliefItisnotsomuchamat of thethe erofthe conscience as of the head This intellectual process seems necessary innordertoreach conscienceasoftheheadThisintellectualprocessseemsnecessary order to reachreach and awaken the conscience which in so many cases seems dead or at least sadly andawakentheconsciencewhichin50manycasesseemsdeadoratleast andadlyand and profoundly Many seem to pass into the light without any great moral dormant profoundlydormantManyseemtopassintothelightwithoutanygreat strugstrug oralstrgloralstrg gle or even any deep sense or conviction of sin though both generally come laterater later just in proportion as the spiritual life is developedand andjustinproportionasthespirituallifeisdeveloped developed rapid progress of The some converts ofsome in Bible Bible knowledge and TherapidprogressofsomeCOT1ertsinBibleknowledgeandspiritual converts in and spiritual spiritual understand understandnderstand ing is most encouraging In this they will put to shame many of our churchitiexnbers ingismostencouragingInthistheywillputtoshamemanyofourchurc churchitiexnbersmembers home who have had far higher spiritual privileges It must be confessed at athomewhohavehadf1rhigherspiritualprivilegesItmustbeconfes very edthatvery that verymany of our hearers and apparently sincere seekers after the truth makeeonlyabe manyofourhearersandapparentlysincereseekersafterthetruthma only a bebe ginning and then turn back to the great majority who prefer to live in religious ginningandthenturnbacktothegreatmajoritywhoprefertoliveinr indifindif 1igiousindif ference without moral earnestness and stamina Now and then one finds peculiar ferencewithoutmoralearnestnessandstaminaNowandthenonefinds peculiareculiar zeal and earnestness in a convert A mountain peasant converted throughhthesimple zealandearnestnessinaCOl1ertAmountainpeasantconvertedthrou the simplesimple reading of the Bible afterwards became one of the most zealous and successful readingoftheBibleafterwardsbecameoneofthemostzealousandsuc colcol essfulcol porteurs in Italy A young man a shoemaker by trade soon after his conversionporteursinItalyAyoungmanashoemakerbytradesoonafterhisconve conversion sion manifested remarkable zeal for the salvation of others practicing great manifestedremarkablezealforthesalvationofotherspracticingg in selfdenial ineatselfdenialin to live at his own charges and give as much time as possible to Christian order ordertoliveathisownchargesandgiveasmuchtimeaspossibletoChr workstianwork work Nothing seemed to dampen his ardor He died young a real martyr to the cause NothingseemedtodampenhisardorHediedyoungarealmartyrtotheca of seof

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persecutionhis Master Many Italian Christians are accustomed to opposition and persecution hisMasterManyItalianChristiansareaccustomedtooppositionand ersecuion and even the prison and the stake would not cause them to turn aside or andeventheprisonandthestakewuldnotcausethemtoturnasideorre Christfaith in Christ their etheirfithinChrist theirfithinChrist

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marFew countries have furnished as many martyrs as Italy and the blood of theemar mar FecountrieshavefurnishedasmanymartyrsasItalyandthebloodoft willingtyrs is often the seed of the Church What some Italian converts have beennwilling tyrsisoftentheseedoftheChurchVhatsomeItalianconvertshavebe heartsto endure rather than return to the Church of Rome has often stirred our hearts toendureratherthanreturntotheChurchofRomehasoftenstJrredou knew quickened our zeal and strengthened our faith One good woman whom I knewluickenedourzealandstrengthenedourfaithOnegoodwomanwhomIkn neigh only Protestant in her villagewas quite ostracized by her friends and neigndsandneigh welltheonlyProtestantinhervillagewasquiteostracizedbyherfi wellthe it allall borsnoonecrossingthethresholdofherhomeforyearsbutinthemids hborsno one crossing the threshold of her home for years but in the midst of ofitall borsno sevenseven shestoodfirmandherfaithonlygrewthebrighterEverySundayshewa she stood fircn and her faith only grew the brighter Every Sunday she walked kedseven and deathdeath miles to hear the gospel in the nearest Protestant church Her last sickness milestohearthegospelinthenearestProtestantchurchHerlastsic nessanddeathnessanddeath forgotten were something never to be forgottenweresomethingneertobeforgotten woman whose husband was for several years a political exile came to aaAnotherwomanwhosehusbandwasforseveralyearsapoliticalexilec Another metoa knowledge of the truth through the influence of one of our evangelists soon She soonknowledgeofthetruththroughtheinfluenceofoneofourevangelist Shesoon You and all that will live godly in ChristChrist hrist began to prove the truth of Pauls words begantoprovethetruthofPauPswordsYouandanthatwilllivegodlyi in her townThough a widow and the only Protestant inhertown town JesusshallsufferpersecutionThoughawidowandtheonlyProtestan Jesus shall suffer persecution relatives andand andthougheverypossibleinfluencewasbroughttobearuponherhyhe and though every possible influence was brought to bear upon her by her relatiesand convictionsfriendsandbythepriestsincludingthebishopsheremainedtruetoh friends and by the priests including the bishop she remained true to herrconvictions hope the hopeandreadyandablealwaystogiveananswertothosewhoaskedareasono and ready and able always to give an answer to those who asked a reason of thehope andandfaithsheentertainedotheenlightenmentofsomebuttotheannoy and faith she entertained to the enlightenment of some but to the annoyance and nceand bishop shop confusion of others She told me with great animation of the visit of the bishopconfusionofothersShetoldmewithTeatanimationothevisitoftheb afterwardsIt is said thattafterwards whor*mainedwithherthebetterpartofanentiremorningItissaidth who remained with her the better part of an entire morning ProtesWell I shall not have another interview with thattProtes he remarked to a friend heremarkedtoafriendVellIshallnothaveanotherinterviewwithth ManyMany woman for instead of converting her I am afraid she might convert meeHMany tantwomanforinstcadofconvertingherIamafraidshemightconvert tant course but of coursethe priests strictly charge their people not to argue with Protestants ofthepriestsstrictlychargetheirpeoplenottoarguewithProtest of ntsbutofcourse bishop is supposed to be impervious Men who fear the consequences of hearingabishopissupposedtobeimperviousMenwhofeartheconsequencesof earing earinrather to be found of it-it gthetruthneedneverexpecttofinditorrathertobefoundofit thetruthneedneverexpecttofinditorrathertobefoundofit the truth need never expect to find thefor the Pray that every convert in Italy may be a faithful and successful witness PraythateveryconvertinItalymaybeafaithfulandsuccessfulwitn ssforthessforthe EAGEMaster JOHN H EAGER RFlorence Florence April i iS96 iS96FlorenceAprilI1896FlorenceAprilI1896

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MISSIONTARYAND DOWNS OF A MISSIONTARY UPS UPSANDDOVKSOFAMISSIONARY areall have our ups and downsnionients when we are well and when we are We Veallhaveourupsanddownsmomentswhenwearewellandwhenweare issick when family affairs and business matters go ill or well and when the heartis heart is sickwhenfamilyafilirsandbusinessmattersgoillorwellndwhenth subis as sub elate and joyful or depressed and sad To these variations the missionaryyisassub elateandjoyfulordepressedandsadTotheseariationsthemissiona higher heavheav as others and sings now with the English skylark rising higher and higherheav ject jectasothersandsingsnowwiththeEnglishskylarkrisinghigheran enward and anon in a minor plaintive key But besides such ups and downs offfaenwardandanoninaminorplaintivckeyButbesidessuchupsanddowns aaadeepestis in is chief wos which his deepest subject them and indeed he to nddeepest private sort privatesortheissubjecttotheminhisworkwhichisindeedthechief the k mm seem of his life This is true of every minister but morefar more it would seempart partofhisHieThisistrueofeeryministerbutmorefrmoreitwouldse areofonewholaborsinaforeignandnotyeteangelizedlandwherethedif are icultiesare of one who labors in a foreign and not yet evangelized land where the difficulties and failurefailure greatertheprogressslowerandthealternationeasybetweensucces greater the progress slower and the alternation easy between success andfilure andfilurewith joy or briefwithjoyorgrief brief theBaxter tells how the apotacy of one whom he had believed to be a son in the BaxtertI1showtheapostacyofonewhomhehadbelievedtobeasoninth But if this be so with a homegospel hurt hint worse than the death of his firstborn home gospelhurthimworsethanthedeathofhisfirstbornButifthisbesow thahome who gathers Lis converts by the score and is held up by the sympathy of aahyofa pastor pastorwhogathershisconvertsbythescoreandisheldupbythesympa yoneherehereow much more for the lonely missionary who sees onlyy ChristiancOmmtmiiowmuchmoreforthelonelymissionarywhoseeson one here onehere Christian coenmunh message andthereoutofa*grtdtmultit1tdeaccepthismessage and there out of a gre t multitude accept his messageiallyinthiallyinthe Perhaps of all countries Italy is the most apt to raise high hopes especially PerhapsofallcountriesItalyisthemostapttoraisehighhopesespe inthe

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new missionary as well as to dash them suddenly to the ground ew appanewmissionaryasweIlastodashthemsuddenlytothegroundSomeofou Some of our appa rently brightest converts after years of trial before and after baptism therentlybrightestconvertsafteryearsoftrialbeforeandafterbapt have denied the smhmcdeniedthe faith But then others who seemed to take slight hold of the truth and gaveelittle littlefaithButthenotherswhoseemedtotakeslightholdofthetruthandga little promise of good have pleasantly surprised us by holding on with evertightening promiseofgoodhavepleasantlysurprisedusbyholdingonwitheerti graspgrasp hteninggrasp even though isolated and pursued ever with the persecutions of bigoted Romanistsin ineventhoughisolatedandpursuedeerwiththepersecutionsofbigote Romanistsin-in lifesociety and in family life societyandinfamilylife Some fields and some evangelists encourage and console while others distressSomefieldsandsomeeange1istsencourageandconsolewhileothersd distress stress dishearten the missionary and It has been said that half of the world is alwaysin anddisheartenthemissionaryIthasbeensaidthathalfoftheworldi always inin and certainly there is light and shade for a man who in however lowly shadow shadowandcertainlythereislightandshadeforamanwhoinhoweverl sensewlysense sense has the care of all the churches anxThe letters comethis one filling him with hasthecareofallthechurchesTheletterscomethisonefillinghimw anx thanx iety that one bringing sore perplexity another unmitigated sorrow still ietythatonebringingsoreperplexityanotherunmitigatedsorrows anotheranother illanother causing wounded feeling yetthank God others cheering with news of progressprogress causingwoundedfeelingyetthankGodotherscheeringwithnewsofpr gress of rare faith and love and zeal in nascent churches and bearing wordsof accounts ofwords of accountsofrarefaithandloeandzealinnascentchurchesandbearin personal affection which are a cordial so that altogether the heart of amanofmy personalaffectionwhichareacordialsothataltogetherthehearto a man of mymy and in my place goes again and again through the whole gamut of emotionsmake iol1s makeandinmyplacegoesagainandagainthroughthewholegamutofemo iol1emotions apostolic at least as sorrowful yet always rejoicingrejoicing apostolicatleastassorrowfulyetalwaysrejoicing sapostolicatleastassorrowfulyetalwaysrejoicing same field can bring hope today and disappointment tomorrow or the reThe Thesamefieldcanbringhopetodayanddisappointmenttomorroworth re A year and a half ago one of our evangelists became interested in a anufac verse verseAyearandahalfa*gooneofoureangcIistsbecameinterestedina manufactown near his stationmade repeated visits there holding conversations turing withturingtownnearhisstationmaderepeatedisitsthereholdingconer with ationswith workmen distributing large numbers of tracts which were well received the theworkmendistributinglargenumbersoftractswhichwerewellrec sell anl sellhedanlsell ing many copies of the New Testament and of the Gospels The soil thus examinedingmanycopiesoftheNewTestamentandoftheGospelsThesoilthusex examined mined and prepared a suitable locale after long search was secured and preaching andpreparedasuitabelocaleafterlongsearchwassecuredandpreac beganbegan ingbegan interest vas manifested and there was every human prospect of a harvest Much Muchinterestwasmanifestedandtherewasecryhumanprospectofaha ofof vstof Then began the machinations of the priests souls Windows were repeatedly soulsThenbeganthemachinationsofthepriestsVindowswererepeat repeatedlydly broken and the premises fouled but so secretly that the culprits were not brokenandthepremisesfouledbutsosecretlythattheculpritswere detectedotdetected not sufficing influence was brought to bear upon the proprietor toorefusethe This Thisnotsufficinginfluencewasbroughttobearupontheproprietor refuse thethe locale and worst of all the wives were incited to go to the meetings and urge localeandworstofallthewiveswereincitedtogotothemeetingsand theirrgetheir their husbands to come away and these thus publicly shamed at length left one afterhusbandstocomeawayandthesethuspubliclyshamedatItngthlefton after her their heads hanging down till only the evangelist remained with hisheart ano anohertheirheadshangingdowntillonlytheeangelistremainedwit his heart hearthisheartlower bowed yet lowerbowedyetlower Only last Sunday and here in Rome I was feeling discouraged True the ChurchOnlylastSundayandhereinRomeIwasfeelingdiscouragedTruetheCh Church rch is perfectly united there have been several baptisms chiefly from the undayschool isperfectlyunitedtherehavebeenseeralbaptismschieflyfromthe Sundayschoolthere has been a goodly increase in giving but we did not seem to be getting and andtherehasbeenagoodlyincreaseingivingbutwedidnotseemtobeg ttinghold holdhold and adding to the congregation outsiders of Le and behold That very nighttthere ofoutsidersandaddingtothecongregationLoandbeholdThatcrynig therewas an unusual number of strangers present who listened with serious attention wasanunusualnumberofstrangerspresentwholistenedwithserious theto the ttentiontothe excellent gospel sermon of the evangelist and at the close of the service excellentgospelsermonoftheevangelistandatthecloseoftheserv one of our ourceoneofour most assiduous members came up and told of two persons long interested whode mostassiduousmemberscameupandtoldoftwopersonslongintereste dewho whodede baptized siredtobebaptized to be baptizedsired many more cases might be cited but these are enough to give some hint Many lanymanymorecasesmightbecitcdbuttheseareenoughtogivesomehi hint-t of the ups and downs of at least one missionary Doubtless all workers perience oftheupsanddownsofatleastonemissionaryDoubtlessallworkerse experienceperiencsuch alternations and it is pleasant to remember that mans extremity iss op esGodsop Gods opGodsop portunity and that when one is nearest to fainting the drop of cordial will portunityandthatwhenoneisnearesttofaintingthedropofcordial be sure toiIIbesuretociIIbesureto to comecome ome would not be human to remain unaffected by the success or failure of our It Itwouldnotbehumantoremainunaffectedbythesuccessorfailureof workwork urwork doubtless God wisely mixes them in every lot and if love and duty be the but butdoubtlessGodwiselymixesthemineverylotandifloveanddutybe motiveshemotives motives labor our hands will never long hang down from discouragement while if of oflaborourhandswiIIneverlonghangdownfromdiscouragementwhil successifsuccesssuccess ifsuccess crown our poor efforts we shall cry Not unto us but unto Thy name 0 Lord bebe gloryglory theglory the Brethren at home must not be too much influenced by the tips and downs of mis Brethrenathomemustnotbetoomuchinfluencedbytheupsanddownsof is t-

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sion work but must pray and give the same whether the chariot wheels move fast sionworkbutmustprayandgivethesamwhetherthechariotwheelsmov orfastoror fastor slowslow We are all alike under orders to win the world for Christ and woe to the soldier whoVeareallalikeunderorderstowintheworldforChristandwoetothes who ldierwhldierwho relaxes in duty because the battle is sharp and not shortorelaxesindutybecausetlebattleissharpandnotshort relaxesindutybecausetlebattleissharpandnotshort short Rome Italy March 24 1896 GEORGE B TAYLOR TAYL-

OREXTRACTS EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS LETTERSEXTRACTSFROlILETTERS

We give below extracts from cheering interesting letters rere Vegivebeloextractsfromcheeringinterestinglettersre We wish our people could read more of these communica ceived ceivedVevjshourpeoplecouldreadmoreofthesecommunica communicaandtions coming warm from the hearts of our faithful brethren and tionscomingvarmfrolntheheartsofourfaithfulbrethrenand fields sisters who represent us in the foreign fieldssistersvhorepresentusintheforeignfields Watkins of Parras Mexico writes a short pithy letterBrother BrotherVatkinsofParrasMexicovritesashortpithyletter letter Here is one sentencesentence IIereisonesentence IIbaptizedteninTorreanMarch4thOthersareawaitingbaptismintwo baptized ten in Torreon March 4th Others are awaiting baptism in two orrthreethreerthree different towntowns differenttons differenttosMiss Miss Sale our new missionary writes from Canton China ChinansllissSaleoupnevmissionaryTltesfromCantonChina

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Coptic reached Hong Kong on February 26th having been delayed by aaThe TheCopticreachedHongKongonFebruary26thhavingbeendelayedbya fog atthe day previous Mr Chambers met me there and we came on to Canton that fogthedaypreviousMrChambersmetmoethereandwecameontoCantont thatat fromnight after a pleasant day in Hong Kong I received a very warm welcome from omnightafterapleasantdayinHongKongIreceivedaverywarmwelcomef om Mrs White Mrs Chambers and Mrs Simmons the other members of the Mission MissionMrsVhiteMrsChambersandMrsSimmonstheothermembersoftheMissio We expect them tomorrow or the next day I have off at the Association being vebeingoffattheAssociationVeexpectthemtomorroworthenextdayIh haveve thehad several quiet days to unpack and take my bearings I began in the language agethehadsceralquietdaystounpackandtakemybearingsIbeganinthelang agethe the yetafter I arrived but have made no impression as yet day dayafterIarrivedbuthavemadenoimpressionasyet IItnlstthatthesefirstmonthsinChinaaregoingtobehappyandhelpf trust that these first months in China are going to be happy and helpful I am amto keep in a receptive or at least a tentative attitude and trust thatIshallnot trying nottryingtokeepinareceptiveoratleastatentativeattitudeandtrus that I shall not I think perhaps one needs to beecautiousrash in forming or expressing opinions be berashinformingorexpressingopinionsIthinkperhapsoneneedsto cautiousecautious especiallyespecially atfirstespecially first at IIamfeelingunusuallywellandamthankfulthatthejounleywasnoton am feeling unusually well and am thankful that the journey was not onlyysafesafesafe ysafe beneficiapleasant but beneficial andpleasantbutbeneficial and

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lDr Dr R H Graves our honored Nestor writes from the same sameDrRHGravesourhonoredNestorritesroInthesamefiDrRHGravesourhonoredNestorritesroInthesame fieldfield eld IIhavebeenmuchencouragedbytheattentionpaidbyourheathenaudie have been much encouraged by the attention paid by our heathen audiences audiencesces Thereisamarked1nproemcntoverthepastnotsomuchinthesizeofthe There is a marked improvement over the past not so much in the size of the congreongre

I cannot help hopinggations as in the interest they seem to manifest in the truth hoping lphoping gationsasintheinteresttheyseemtomanifestinthetruthIcannoth the providences of God are making some impression on this people While wethattheproidencesofGodaremakingsomeimpressiononthispeopleV we that ilewe havestilltogrieveoverthefactthatthemassseemhardenedyetmany themhave still to grieve over the fact that the mass seen hardened yet many among mongthemthem mongthem gospel seemtobeawakingtoasenseoftheimportanceofthegospel seem to be awaking to a sense of the importance of the gospel1lrsGravesandIhavesettleddowntoworkagainandbothofusfeelmuc Mrs Graves and I have settled down to work again and both of us feel much joyjoy andsatistlctionintakingupourformerlinesofwork work satisfaction in taking up our former lines of workand Now that the class is over and the students have gone to the country I am givingvingNowthattheclassisoverandthestudentshaveonetothecountryIamg ving giving vork muchofmytimetomytranslationwork much of my time to my translation vor-

kFrom an interesting letter of Brother G W Green Canton From CantonFromaninterestingletterofBrotherGWGreenCanton China we give a few lines ChinavegiveafewHne

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ary JanuaryMrsGreenandmyselfhadapleasantvisittoSiuIIingthemiddleofJan Mrs Green and myself had a pleasant visit to Shiu Hing the middle of January

thein the spelsinthespelsinthe AboutthirtyofthebrethrenandsistersspentaweekinstudyingtheG About thirty of the brethren and sisters spent a week in studying the Gospels HarmonyHarmony orderofDrBroadussHarmony of Broaduss Dr order thanethanthan ThemembersoftheChurchwillpaythcirpastorfourdollarsamonthmo members of the Church will pay their pastor four dollars a month moreethan The selfsupportlastyearthusmakingsomeprogresstowardsselfsupport year thus making some progress towards selfsupport last medicineDrChungVanManwhoisamemberofthatChurchanddispensesmedicine Dr Chung Wan Alan who is a member of that Church and dispenses medicine salaryhis salary relinquishes of ofhissalary part accord his own of in week inthechapelthreedaysintheweekofhisownaccordrelinquishespar clays the chapel three in the

wilybutwillcbut will forthisyearOneBiblewomaninCantonalsorelinquishesallhersala for this year One Bible woman in Canton also relinquishes all her salaryybutwill heretoforcontinuetoworkasherctofore continue to work as heretofore lcontinue ontinuetoworkasherctofore

in spending his vacation inisspendinghisvacationinisspendinghisvacationin Thomas NcCloy who is eBrother Brother BrotherTholnaslIcCloyhoBrotherTholnaslIcCloyho also in and at Seminary the theSen1inaryandalsoata- a theSen1inaryandalsoata Ky taking lectures LouisvilleIytakinglecturesinmLouisville LouisvilleIytakinglecturesin writescollege writes medicalcollegevrites medical edicalcollegevrites a-

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havewe have milesfromCantonItisthegreatcentreoftradeintheprovinceandwh rewehave miles from Canton It is the great centre of trade in the province and where youwhen you triedtogainafootingforsolongatimeThisi5speciallyacauseforj to gain a footing for so long a time This is specially a cause for joyywhenyou tried weand we rememberthestruggleswchaehadtoplantthefirstchurchinthispro inceandwe the struggles we have had to plant the first church in this province remember litit* eiglit ithitseigld BaptistsaretheonlypeopleGodhasgivenaiootholdinthisprovince are the only people God has given a foothold in this province with Baptists landin go possess I and to now us means God the believe and that people millionsofeoIeIbelievethatGodmeansusnowtogoinandpossessthe millions of longWe haveelong long andeveryplaceweputdownourfootHewillgiveusasaposscssionVeha every place we put down our foot He will give us as a possession and herprayedforthistimewhenweshouldbeabletoopenupanewcentreofwor prayed for this time when we should be able to open up a new centre of work here

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On the afternoon of April i6th a telegram from Havana was wasILOntheafternoonofApril16thatelegramfromHavanavs OntheafternoonofApril16thatelegramfromHavanavs Mission Home to the wordsRooms brought broughttotheHOtTIelfissionRoomscontainingthesevords containing words these o ooc c

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theThis startling intelligence brings the Board face to face with the rhisstartlingintelligencebringstheBoardfacetofaceviththe butgravest difficulty of its history Diaz has been in jail before but gravestdifiicultyofitshistoryDiazhasbeeninjailbeforebut foundthen the charges against him were trivial If he had been found thenthechargesagainsthitnveretrivialIfhehadbeenfound guilty the penalty would not have involved life or liberty Then Thenguiltythepenaltyvold110thaveinvolvedlifeorlibertyThen there was profound peace upon the island and partizanism did nottherevasprofoundpeaceupontheislandandpartizanismdidnot not into crimes the careless familiar torture of words conversation or tortureintocrirnesthecarelessvordsoffamiliarconversationor orbase a charge of treason upon the loose expressions found in a letbaseachargeoftreasonuponthelooseexpressionsfoundinalet let friend ter to a friendtertoafriend different are the conditions prevailing now The SpanWidely Span VidelyditlrentaretheconditionsprevailingnoTheSpan authority ishauthorityinCubaisshakentoitsfoundationCubanmenand in Cuba is shaken to its foundation ish Cuban men andand women are fighting against a tyranny more dreadful to them thanthan life death and for liberty dearer to them than lifedeathandforlibertydearertothemthanlife Spaniards have repudiated their ablest commander becauseThe because TheSpaniardshaverepudiatedtheirablestcommanderbecause his justice and his moderation and have supplied his place byof by ofhisjusticeandhistnoderationandhavesuppliedhisplaceby the most bloodthirsty and cruel of all the Spanish leaders SusSus themostbloodthirsyandcruelofalltheSpanishleadersSus picion is tantamont to conviction of crime The horrors of SpanishSpanish picionistantamonttoconvictionofcrimeThehorrorsofSpanish theirprisons are augmented a hundred fold by the multitudes of their prisonsareaugmentedahundredfoldbythemultitudesoftheir diseased vermininfested halfstarved inmates always justice alwaysdiseasedvermininfestedhalfstarvedinmatesJusticeahvays delayed in Spanish courts has fled the land and nothing but thethe delayedinSpanishcOlrtshasfledthelandandnothingbutthe other strong arm of foreign power car preserve even citizens of otherstrongarmofforeignpowercanpreserveevencitizensofother countries from the passionprompted sentences of its partizan tributribu countriesfromthepassionpronlptedsentencesofitspartizantrib life to fact our of our nals We cannot the the eyes shut that nalsVecannotshutoureyestothefactthatthelifeofourouroffrom in is Not Diaz simply the danger great jeopardy Brother BrotherDiazisingxeatjeoparyNotsimplyfromthedangerof of thefor from of conviction the danger but the the great allegedoffence conyictionfortheallegedoffencebutfromtbegreatdangerofthe endure protracted and torturing imprisonment lie may be called to endureprotractedandtorturingimprisonmenthemaybecalledtoendure itsin its to will actions not stop vindicate Board regard to its The TheBoardvillnotstoptovindicateitsactionsinregardtoits isay pospos missionaries in Cuba further than to missionariesinCubafurtherthantosaythatithastakeneverypos that it has taken every more sible precaution for their safety Assured that Diaz was in moresibleprecautionfortheirsafetyAssuredthatDiazvasinmore solicthan any of the others the Board has been especially solic dangerthananyoftheotherstheBoardhasbeenespeciallysolic danger made itous for him and could he have acted upon the suggestions madeitousforhimandcouldhehaveacteduponthesuggestionsmade auhim lie would not have remained within the limits of Spanish au himheyouldnothaveremainedvithinthelimitsofSpanishau see thority But he could not He no doubt felt it to be his duty to seethorityButhecouldnotHenodoubtfeltittobehisdutytosee depart the others safely off the island before he should go Their departtheotherssafelyofftheislandbeforeheshouldgoTheirdepart ure was delayed by some unknown cause OHalloran the last urevasdelayedbysomeunknovncauseOHalloranthelastTurevasdelayedbysomeunknovncauseOHalloranthelast

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nightnightto leave sailed from Havana Wednesday the i5th That night toleavesailedfromHavanaVednesdaythe15thThatnight saidIn the last letter received from him he said Diaz was arrested DiazvasarrestedInthelastletterreceivedfromhilllhesaid hishevasPerfectinoarranrrementsforthecareofourpropertyinhis he was perfecting arrangements for the care of our property in his thathis absence The evidence before us points to the conclusion that hisabsenceTheevidencebeforeuspOIntstotncconeUSIontlat itvashisdesireforthesafetyofothersandhisfidelitytothe the it was his desire for the safety of others and his fidelity to theinduced him that the delay that rere by the Board trust committed to sulted in his arrestarrest suItedinhisarrest diflidiffmonths communication with our missionaries has been diffi For Formonthscommunicationvithourmissionarieshasbeendifl cult and hazardous They were objects of suspicion because ofof cultandhazardousheyvereobjectsofsuspicionbecauseof theirr religious faith and practice It is understood that all lettersletters theirreligiousfaithandpracticeItisundertoodthatal1letters were Under thesubject to inspection at the Havana postoffice the veresubjecttoinspectionattheHavanapostoflceUnderthe prevailing conditions the most innocent expression relating to ourprevailingconditionstheIllOstinnocentexpressionrtlatingtoo ourrrmission work in the excited minds of the Spanish authorities mightmissionworkintheexcitedmindsoftheSpanishauthoritiesmight might Everybe transformed into words indicating rebellion and treason Every betransformedintovordsindicatingrebc11ionandtreasonEvery reletter we sent to Havana might engender suspicions that would re JettervesenttoIlavtnamightengendersuspicionsthatvouldre our in of imprisonment missionaries the and sult every theyletter they sultntheimprisonmentofourmissionariesandeveryletterthey to us might be fraught with similar consequences sent Hence we wesenttousmightbefraughtvithsimilarconsequencesIIencewe do not know why Diaz delayed so long in Havana We only knowknow donotknovvhyDiazdelayedsolonginIIavanaVeonlykno him our brother is in prison and we must help himourbrotherisinprisonandvemusthelphim Arrangements iArrangements must be made to care for him while in prisoprison prisonArrangementsmustbemadetocareforhiIllvhileinprison He will not dare to eat or drink anything furnished by the prisonHevillnotdaretoeatordrinkanythingfurnishedbytheprison prison authorities He must have such comforts as the common jails of ofHavana do not contain His health suffered greatly from his lastHavanadonotcontaIlishealthsufleredgreatlyfromhislast last imprisonment though it was brief Protracted imprisonment now imprisonnlentthoughitvasbriefProtractedimprisonrnentno nowlifehis life will endanger villendangerhisife j nj was the horror of a Burman prison that broke down the healthIt ItvasthehorrorofaBurmanprisonthtbrokedovntheheaIth healthhealth of Judson and brought him so near the grave I t was the dungeondungeon in which Herod confined John the Baptist that staggered the faith faithinvhichHerodconfinedJohntheBaptistthatstaggeredthefaith of the forerunner and led him who in triumphant tones cried BeoftheforerunnerandledhimvhointriumphanttonescriedBe Be hold the Lamb of God to inquire in timid and doubting accentaccent thou he that should come or look we for another Art and DiazDiaz ArtthouhethatshouldcomeorlookveforanotherandDiaz is flesh and blood as were they He will need expressions of sym sympathy from all his brethren who have assigned him to that post of ofpathyfromanhisbrethrenvhohaveassignedhimtothatpostof duty and of danger He has honored them by a life of devotion to todutyandofdangerlIehashonoredthembyalifeofdevotionto their cause surpassed by none among the living or the deadtheircausesurpassedbynoneamongthelivingorthedead dead every Baptist of the South man woman or child be amongLet among LetevervBaotistoftheSouthmanwomanorchildbeamonu those of whom Diaz can say I was sick and in prison and yeye ministered unto me Let there not be one who shall fail to honorministeredunton1eLettherenotbeonevhoshallfailtohonor honor himself by some token of sympathy and love to him with whomhimselfbysometokenofsympathyanlovetohiIllwithvhom whom God has honored our denominationGodhashonoredourdenomination denomination We are tempted to ask if any will not respond to ofto the needs of such a man what suffering what distress can move his heart orsuchaInanvhatsufferingvhatdistresscanmovehisheartor or what calamity smiting the soul of a child of God would draw forthvhatcalamitysmitingthesoulofachildofGodvolllddravforth forth one so callous evidence that the love of God dwells in him from froInonesocallousevidencethattheloveofGodhvel1sinhim

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imprisonment of Brother Diaz will impose unlooked for exThe 1TheimprisonmentofBrotherDiazvillimposeunlookedforex TheimprisonmentofBrotherDiazvillimposeunlookedforex ex penses on the Board Not only must he be cared for but so must mustpensesontheBoardNotonlymusthebecaredforbutsomust his family The expenses of a trial which Spanish courts well wellhisfamilyTheexpensesofatrialvhichSpanishcourtsveIl know how to make exceeding burdensome Attorneys servicesknovlhovtomakeexceedingburdensomeAttorneysservices services and he must have the bestwill not be small Nothing must bebe andheInusthavethebestwillnotbesmal1Nothingmustbe spared that will mitigate the suffering or spare the life of ourour sparedthatvillmitigatethesufferingorsparetheJifeofour Money is valueless when counted against the life of suchbrother brotherlVloneyisvaluelessvhencountedagainstthelifeofsuch such aamanvVeaskthateverychurcconnectedviththeSouthern man We ask that every church connected with the SouthernSouthern Convention take immediately a special collection for thisBaptist BaptistConventiontakeimmediatelyaspecialcollectionforthis this purpose In this general movement of our people there is a strongstrong purposeInthisgeneralmovementofourpeoplethereisastrong element of safety to our brother It will strengthen him It willwill elementofsafetytoourbrotherItvillstrengthenhimItvill cheer his prison days It will enable him to resist disease andand cheerhisprisondaysItvillenablehimtoresistdiseaseand power maintain his vital powermaintainhisvitalpover Havana could know that ten thousand Baptist churches byIf by IfIIavanacouldknovthattenthousandBaptistchurchesby concerted movement swelled a fund for Diazs protection andone oneconcertedmovementsvel1ttdafundforDiazsprotectionand and freedom how that would hold back the threatened blow and changechange freedomhovthatvouldholdbackthethreatenedblovandchange How it would affect our authorities atthe purpose to destroy at thepurposetodestroyHovitvouldaffectourauthoritiesat home to know that a million and a half of Baptists were in earnesthometoknovthatamillionandahalfofBaptistsvereinearnest earnest firstin their efforts to save a man so honored of Goda star of the first intheireffortstosaveaInansohonoredofGodastarofthefirst worldof missionary heroes among the the world magnitude magnitudeamongthemissionaryheroesoftheworld influence and power it would give them for all comingWhat coming Vhatinfluenceandpoveritwouldgivethemforallcoming time to protect and promote the missionaries of their faith in everyevery timetoprotectandpromotethemissionariesoftheirfaithinevery land and on every shore Diazs imprisonment is Gods call to thethe landandoneveryshoreDiazsimprisonnlentisGodscalltothe and churches of the South to arise ahd shake off the dust of sloth andchurchesotheSouthtoariseahdshakeoffthedustofslothand in act for his deliverance for Gods cause and for their own honor inactforhisdeliveranceforGodscauseandfortheirownhonorin aamannervorthyofthemselvesvorthyoftheKingtheyadoreand and manner worthy of themselves worthy of the King they adore andnations of the Gospel which they must give to all the nationsoftheGospelwhichtheymustgivetoallthenations purposes What though ten times that which is needed for these purposesvVhatthoughtentimesthatvhichisneededforthesepurposes It would be but a gar garshould be contributed by our churches shouldbecontributedbyourchurchesItvouldbebutagar whonered supply from which to equip other soldiers of the Cross who neredsupplyfromvhichtoequipohersoldiersoftheCrossho island will reinforce Gods conquering host on that islandvillreinforceGodsconqueringhostonthatisland We are committed to this work Our hands are upon the plow vVearecommittedtothisvorkOurhandsareupontheplov ploweecannotlookbackDiazmayperishinprisonordiebythe cannot look back Diaz may perish in prison or die by thethe wI The handsoftheexecutionerbutCubamustbespirituallyfreeThe hands of the executioner but Cuba must be spiritually free ThemouthoftheLordhathspokenit mouth of the Lord bath spoken it TICHENORTICHENOR 1TTICHENOR I1TTICHENORT TICuENORGA April 23 1896ATLANTA ATLANTAGAApril231896 1896 189-

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serserRev Malcombe MacGregor preached an exceptionally fine ser RevJlalcombeJ1acGregorpreachedanexceptionallyfineser asfrom Baptist the mon Hill church as text the at yesterday monyesterdayattheJacksonIlillBaptistchurchfromthetextas Jackson 8 in dwell wasin our land Psalms was found It may glory That foundinPsaltns859ThatglorymaydvellinourlanelItvas 9 aapleaforahigherorderofpatriotismandincreasedeffortsin111is plea for a higher order of patriotism and increased efforts in mismis worksion work sionvork sionvorinIn in opening his sermon Mr MacGregor spoke of the Jews inkInopeninghissermonIVlrlIacGregorspokeoftheJewsin InopeninghissermonIVlrlIacGregorspokeoftheJewsin olden times among whom piety and patriotism were very thoroughly thoroughlyoldentilnesamongvhompietyandpatriotismwereverythoroughly their religion being patriotic and their patriotism rclicommingled rclililcommingledtheirreligionbeingpatrioticandtheirpatriotislllr beengious American patriotism he said from the very start has been giouslmericanpatriotismhesaidfromtheverystarthasbeen igiouslmericanpatriotismhesaidfromtheverystarthasbeen a very decided and practical type as witnessed by the revolu of revoluofayerydecidedandpracticaltypeasitnessedbytherevolu tionary and civil wars and as indicated by American prose and p0tionaryandcivilvarsandasindicatedbyAmericanproseandpo p0 What is especially needed however is that in this countryetry etryVhatisespecial1yneededhoweveristhatinthiscountry country patriotism shall become more imbued with Christian principles andpatriotismshallbecomemoreimbuedvithChristianprinciplesand and shall become in the highest sense more patri our Christianity that patrithatourChristianityshallbecomeinthehighestsensemorepatri otic By all means we should cultivate home missions for the imim oticByallmeansweshouldcl1tiOatehomemissionsfortheim provement landrovementofourovnlandTIof our own land rovementofourovnland GLORY OF OUR LAND THE LANLANTIlEGLORYOFOURLAXD lEGLORYOFOURLAXD

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DMr andMacGregor spoke of the vastness and extent of our land and Mr and111lvlacGregorspokeofthevastnessandextentofourlandand its resources and dwelt on the importance of missionary workwork people among its peopleamongitspeople Our land said he is eighteen times as large as Spain thirty thirtythirtyOurlandsaidheiseighteentimesaslargeasSpainthirty one times as large as Italy sixty times as large as England andand onetimesaslargeasItalysixtytimesaslargeasEnglandand Wales together Weld into one Great Britain and Ireland France FranceWalestogetherTeldintooneGreatBritainandIrelandFrance Germany Austria Italy Spain Portugal Switzerland DenmarkDenmark GermanyAustriaItalySpainPortugalSvitzerlandDenmark and Greece and they would cover scarcely onethird of the territerri andGreeceandtheyvouldcoverscarcelyonethirdoftbeterri tory of the United States The United States soil is capable ofof toryoftheUnitedStatesTheUnitedStatessoiliscapableof supporting more than 1ooooooooo people Onehalf of the boldsupportingmorethan1000000000peopleOnehalfofthegold bold and silver supply of the world is now obtained here iron is minedandsilversupplyofthevoddisnovobtainedhereironismined mined in twentythree of our States and our coal supply is simply today todayintventythreeofourStatesandourcoalsupplyissimply inexhaustible What a population our land is destined to bear bearinexhaustibleWhatapopulationourlandisdestinedtobear How important that this country should speedily become thor thorHovimportantthatthiscountryshouldspeedilybecomethor evangelizedoughly evangelized In M Tr MacGregorspeaking of the population of this country Mr MacGregor MacGregoInspeakingofthepopulationofthiscountry11rlfacGreOor MacGregorsaid The rapidly increasing population of our land renders homesaidTherapidlyIncreasingpopulationofourlandrendershone home missionary enterprise imperative During the ninety years previmissionaryenterpriseimperativeDuringtheninetyyearsprevi previ to i88o io000ooo foreigners came to settle in the Unitedous ousto188010000000foreignerscametosettleintheUnited United States Since iS8o this country has been peacefully invaded byStatesSince1880thiscauntryhasbeenpeacefullyinvadedbv by an army of foreigners four times as great as that of the Goths andanarmyofforelgnersfourtimesasgreatasthatoftheGothsand and Vandals that devastated Southern Europe and broke the power ofVandalsthatdevastatedSouthernEuropeandbrokethepoverof of Rome Most of the multitudes thus coming to us are destitute ofof acquaintance and sympathy with our institutions and governmentacquaintanceandsympathywithOUfinstitutionsandgovernment government and are destitute of any knowledge or experience of the gospel of andaredestituteofanyknovvledgeorexperienceofthegospelofandaredestituteofanyknovvledgeorexperienceofthegospelof 11

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Christ and its saving benefits There are innumerable heathens at ChristanditssavingbenefitsThereareinnumerableheathenat atour very doors We must give them the gospel The unrest of ofourverydoorsWemustgivethemthegospelTheunrestof the Old World and its overpopulation will increase immigration intheOldorldanditsoverpopulationvillincreaseimmigrationin in the future There is much spiritual destitution and fatal ignorancethefutureThereismchspiritualdestitutionandfatalignorne ignorance iinallpartsofourlandandhomemissionaryenterpriseahundred n all parts of our land and home missionary enterprise a hundredhundred fold greater than we have exercised hitherto is neededfoldgreaterthanvehaveexercisedhithertoisneeded needed THREATEN11DANGERS THAT THREATEN THE THEDAGERSTHATTIIREATEN

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mateing this land among them being a too exclusive devotion to mate iugthislandamongt1embeingatooexclusivedevotiontomate rial gain too great haste to become rich at all hazards intemper intemperwhich has become a mighty evil to health morals the family anceyhichhasbecorneamightyeviltohealthmoralsthefamily ance onbusiness and political life monopoly on the one hand spoliation on businessandpoliticallifemonopolyontheonehandspoliationon the other the greed of the rich and the envy of the poor and noththeotherthegreedoftherichandtheenvyofthepoorandnoth noth ing but the gospel of Christ can meet and overcome these mightymighty ingbutthegospelofChristcanmeetandovercomethesemighty agents for evil He spoke of the wonderful possibilities of this landagentsforeilHespokeoftheyonderfulpossibiIitiesofthisland land a field for missionary effort and dwelt on the one great thing toas to asateldformissionaryeffortanddveltontheonegreatthingto desired That glory may dwell in our land be the glory of thethe bedesiredThatglorymaydvelIinourlandthegloryofthe truth the glory of divine salvation and the glory of worldwide worldwidetruththegloryofdivinesalvationandthegloryofvorldvide usefulnessusefulness Christian Christianusefulness In closing Mr MacGregor made a strong presentation of the Inclosing11r1IacGregormadeastrongpresentationofthe work being done by the Baptists and urged upon his members theworkbeingdonebytheBaptistsandurgeduponhismembersthe the necessity of increased activity in the cause of missions and espeespe necessityofincreasedactivityinthecauseofmissionsandespe cially home missionsThe Atlanta 7ozzrnal 7ozzrnalcialyhomemissionsTheAtlaJltaJournal 1131

HON NORTHJOHN C SCARBOROUGH ON COOPERATIVE WORK IN NORTH HONJOHNCSCARBOROUGHONCOOPERATIVEVORKINNORTHCHONJOHNCSCARBOROUGHONCOOPERATIVEVORKINNORTH CAROLINA CAROLINAAROLINA CAROLI-

We have been furnished with a copy of a letter recently writtenNAVehavebeenfurnishedvithacopyofaletterrecentlyvritten written Vehavebeenfurnishedvithacopyofaletterrecentlyvritten forHon John C Scarborough Superintendent of Education for by byIIonJohnCScarboroughSuperintendentofEducationfr H D D to Carolinia Rev L Morehouse North Corresponding NorthCaroliniatoRevIiL11orehouseDDCorresponding of the American Baptist Home Mission Society NewSecretary New SecretaryoftheAmericanBaptistIlomelIissionSocietyNevSecretaryoftheAmericanBaptistIlomelIissionSocietyNev YorkIYorkYork INIr NIr Scarborough is a distinguished citizen and prominent BapBap 11rScarboroughisad*stnguishedcitizenandprominentBap tist He has been identified with Baptist interests as well as withtistIIehasbeenidentifiedwithBaptistinterestsasyellasvith with the educational interests of North Carolina for many years WeWe theeducationalinterestsofNorthCaroJinaformanyyearsiTe are gratified to be able to furnish the readers of THE JoURNALsome aregratifiedtobeabletofurnishthereadersofTHEOURNALsome JoURNALsomeextracts extracts from his excellent letter It may be proper to explain that thatextractsfromhisexcellentletterItmaybepropertoexplainthat Brown to vhoin lie refers is the recently employed genBrother gen Brotherrovntoholnherefersistherecentlyelnployedgen missionary under the cooperative plan in North CarolinaCarolina eral ralmissionaryunderthecooperativeplaninNorthCarolina one He is one of finest workers and oneknow Brother Brown IknovBrothc1BrOZllllHeisoneoffinestvorkersandone of the best men among the colored Baptists of the State He is aaofthebestrnenamongthecoloredBaptistsoftheStateHeisa fine citizen a good man a good preacher and pastor a firstclass firstclassfinecitizenagoodInanagoodpreacherandpastorafirstclass peo and one of the best managers of a crowd of colored peoteacher teacherandoneofthebestmanagersofacrovdofcoloredpo I seen among them He has to tact ple have character pIeIhaveseenamongthemehastactcharactertocommandHpIeIhaveseenamongthemehastactcharactertocommand command t

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does not make them mad whoKnows how to get hold of men who have had very limited opportunities and how to encourage them themhavehadverylInitedopportunitiesandhovtoencouragethem anand lift them up to better views and to do better work He is an andliftthelnuptobetterviewsandtodobetterworkIIeisan is butfor man a allround good himself He narrow schemer not allroundgoodmanfIeisnotanarrowschcmerforhimselfbut but aaviseandbroadplannerforhispeoplesgoodandforthclIas wise and broad planner for his peoples good and for the Tas Tasters glorykingdom and glory ters terskingdomandglory Out of this Institute work are to come results long prayed forfor OutofthisInstitutevorkaretocomeresultslongprayedfor by our white pastors and people Baptists The lifting of colored Baptistsbyourvhitepastorsandpeople1heJiftingofcoloredBaptists to a higher and better home life church life intellectual life bettertoahigherandbetterhoulelifechurchlifeintellectuallifebette better living and to self development as men and women To quicken desire for better home surroundings and better homes for higherhigher desireforbetterhomeslrroundingsandbetterhOlnesforhigher Christian education and consequent better citizenship re ChristianeducationandconsequentbettercitizenshipItwiIIie It will result in practical and more effective missionary work to be done byby them among themselves at home and enlarge their notions as to tothelnalnongthemselvesathOlneandenlargetheirnotioilsasto their mission to the world It will better equip them for the aidaid they are to give the Baptists North and South in the problem to betheyaretogivetheBaptistsNorthandSouthintheproblerntobe be worked out What are they to be and What can we help themthem I cannot you cannot enumerate all the possible and prob to be probit will bring to them as a people if patiently wisely andable good ablegooditvillbringtothemasapeopleifpatientlyviseland and well we shall do this work they helping us in it or the rather we wehelping Beene in it helpingtllc11init Then too the benef-its will be large and many in numbernumber will come to our while Baj5lists in the South from this workwhich work vhichvillCOInetoourwhiteBltrsiutheSouthfromthisork You brethren at the North have helped to open the door for ourYoubrethrenattheNorthhavehelpedtoopenthedoorforour our usefulness to the Negro at our very doors Our white BaptistBaptist brethren are rejoiced at the prospects as they open Many of us usfor for have prayed years open anddoor we that ail might haveprayedforyearsforanopendoorthatvemightgoinand bo in and them It will enlarge our views of the capacity of the Negrohelp helpthemItvillenlargeourvievsofthecapacityoftheNegro Negro will enlarge and broaden our sympathies for him and enable us It ItviIienlargeandbroadenoursympathiesforhimandenableus usdo unselfishly Christian work for him with stronger and betterto todounselfishlyChristianyorkforhin1vithstrongerandbetter better hope for him as a man and a brother in Christ It will bring us to tosee that we can aid in the work of lifting him up to privileges andseethatvecanaidinthevorkofliftinghimuptoprivilegesand and opportunities which heretofore perhaps he has not dreamed of andopportunitiesvhichheretoforeperhapshehasnotdreamedofand and we have not thought possible It will help us to see clearly thethe necessity of lifting him up for if he is not lifted up he will pull its itsdown It will show us more clearly the necessity of Christian citi citizenship in order to realize somewhat the ideal of the Americanzenshipinordertorealizesomewhattheidealofthetmerican American system of government It will revivify and renew afresh our kindly feelings for the race which in our time of sorest trial and greatest greatesthardship and bitter anxiety stood in its place stormy though it waswas and waited patiently for delivery to come as the result of the con andvaitedpatientlyfordeiiverytocomeastheresultofthecon conflict then being waged It will place them and us in a better positionposition to find the good in each other and to cultivate that rather than to tofindthegoodineachotherandtocultivatethatratherthanto tothe faults of each other It will do all this and much magnify magnifythefaultsofeachotherItviIIdoallthisandmuchmagnifythefaultsofeachotherItviIIdoallthisandmuch 11

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willfor the white and black men of the South Then too it will more SmoreforthevhiteandblackmenoftheSouthThentooitvill moreforthevhiteandblackmenoftheSouthThentooitvill ofhelp you men of the North to know more about the white men of helpyoumenoftheNorthtoknovmoreaboutthewhitemenof white the South in our better qualitiesspecially more about the whitetheSouthinourbetterquaIitiesspeciaIIymoreaboutthewhite the Baptist churchmembers and our willingness and desire to help theBaptistchurchmembersandourvillingnessanddesiretohelpthe church colored people to better living and to a higher plane of churchcoloredpeopletobetterlivingandtoahigherplaneofchurch life people and work But I need not multiply words Our white peoplelifeandyorkButIneednotmultiplyvordsOurwhitepeple which have not put their hands to a work of the churches in years whichhapenotputtheirhandstoavorkofthechurchesinyearsvhich ispromises more for the outlay The universal sentiment with us is promisesmorefortheoutlayTheuiversalsentimentvithusis huis for in is hu Lord it His and work the the glory that that for thattheLordisinthevorkthatitisforHisgloryandforhu it manity We are thankful for the privilege of helping in itmanityWearethankfulfortheprivilegeofhelpinginit OFOF MOTHERS MEETINGS AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS OF REPORT REPORTOFMOTHERSMEETINGSANDINDUSTRIALSCHOOLSOF WOMEN AND CHILDRENCOLORED CHILDREN COLOREDVOMENANDCHILDRENHCOLOREDVOMENANDCHILDREN MAY 1896 HELD IN BALTIMORE MAY 1895 189IS95MAV ELDINBATIMOREMAVIS9S11AV1896 HELDINBATIMOREMAVIS9S11AV1896 6This gone forward during steadily the year with onlywork has only This Thisvorkhasgonesteadilyforvardduringtheyearwithonly

toone change The school at Faith Chapel was given up owing to onechangeTheschoolatFaithChapelvasgivenupovingto in Methodist neighborhoodchurch the neighborhood the fact of a strong colored thefactofastrongcoloredlIethodistchurchintheneighborhood permanent largely the results of our labors There was no permanentreaping reapinglargelytheresultsofourlaborsTherevasnopermanent did pastor at Faith Chapel and as the membership was weak they didpastoratFaithChapelandasthemembershipvasveaktheydid enlarge notseemabletotakeadvantageofthisopportunityfortheenlarge not seem able to take advantage of this opportunity for the enlargetomentoftheiryorksoaftermaturedeliberationitvasdecidedto ment of their work so after mature deliberation it was decided to toclose that school and to accede to a request of Rev J C Allen to dosethatschoolandtoaccedetoarequestofReyJCAllento organize a school at his church Mr Allen for two years had beenbeen organizeaschoolathischurch11rAl1enfortvoyearshadbeen Invery anxious for the establishment of a Mothers Meeting and In veryanxiousfortheestablishmentofalIotherslleetingandIn of dustrial School there but a lack of workers prevented Pastors ofdustrialSchooltherebutalackofvorkerspreventedPastorsof the several colored churches throughout Maryland have during theseveralcoloredchurchesthroughoutMarylandhaveduringthe Society earnestly requested the president of the Home Mission Societyyear yearearnestlyrequestedthepresidentoftheHomeMissionSociety theirof Maryland to try and organize schools in connection with their of1farylandtotryandorganizeschoolsinconnectionviththeir for it posabove reason given but the has not been churches pos yet churchesbutforthereasongivenaboveithasnotyetbeenposschurchesbutforthereasongivenaboveithasnotyetbeenpos sible ible sibleThe entire expense for carrying on four schools has been 4357 The Theentireexpenseforcarryingonfourschoolshasbeen4357 4357children As will be seen from the reports of the various schools the childrenAsvillbeseenfromthereportsofthevariousschoolsthechildren to have been trained to give and their offerings have largely aided tohavebeentrainedtogiveandtheirotleringshavelargelyaidedto Orphanage the little ones in the Colored Orphanagesupport supportthelittleonesintheColoredOrphanage

coloredsubmitting the report of the work done among the colored In Insubmittingthereportoftheyorkdoneamngthecolored thatpeople in Baltimore we repeat what has previously been said that peopleinBaltimoreverepeatyhathaspreviouslybeensaidthat differentno missionaries are employed to do this work ladies from different no1nissicnariesareemployedtodothisyorkladiesfromdifferent somechurches giving their time and labor gratuitously In some white vhitechurchesgivingtheirtimeandlaborgratuitouslyInsonH toslight measure we realize that God is giving us an opportunity to slightIneasureweredizethatGodisgivingusa1opportunityto do Gospel Foreign itIission work at home and in this way give the GospeldoForeignIissionyorkathoyneandinthisvaygivetheGospel midst to totheAfricansinourmidstSuthe Africans in our midsttotheAfricansinourmidst ARMSTRONG ARIISTRONSubmitted SublnittedbyANNIEVARMSTRONG by ANNIE W ARMSTRONblnittedbyANNIEVARMSTRONG SublnittedbyANNIEVARMSTROWT GPresident B H M President of Marylandj Society NGPresidentWBH11SocietoflVlaryland PresidentWBH11SocietoflVlarylandHPresidentWBH11SocietoflVlaryland

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orphanage and one orphanageone orphanageseparate reports of The of the four schools and Theseparatereportsofthefourschoolsandoneorphange andeach showing care and the eachcontaininformationindetailofinterestshovingthecareand contain information in detail of interest diversifiedthoroughness with which this work is conducted in its diversified t1orouThnessvithvhichthisvorkisconductedinitsdiversified forms im The Kindergarten feature in these schools is a work of imforn1sTheIindergartenfeatureintheseschoolsisavork0Im isis porttcnce four for schools the porUlnceheaggregateaverageattendanceforthefourschoolsis The aggregate average attendance shown to be 354 and the aggregate number of garments made 312shovntobe354andtheaggregatenumberofgarmentsmade312 312 In the orphanage there are at present 31 children ranging in ageage Intheorphanagethereareatpresent3Ichildrenranginginage forfrom to The largest number cared for fromto14yearsboysandgirlsThelargestnun1bercaredfor 14 yearsboys and girls at any one time was 42 Suitable religious instruction and worshipworship atanyonetimevas42Suitablereligiousinstructionandvorship is conducted in connection with the schools and with the orphaisconductedinconnectionviththeschoolsandwiththeorphaisconductedinconnectionviththeschoolsandwiththeorphan orphan

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MISS BUHLMAIERS WORK BALTIMORIN BALTIMORE WORK IN MISSBUHLlIAIERSVORKINHALTIMORE BALTIMOREThe The work of imof Miss Buhlmaier among the imThevorkofMissBuhlmaieramongtheGermansandotherim the Germans and im and other other im in migrants Baltimore is a chapter of consecrated devotion which migrantsinBaltimoreisachapterofconsecrateddevotionvhich whichappeals to the interest of every American Christian ChristianappealstotheinterestofeveryAmericanChristian Her Her annual report for for the the year and year just just closed closed isis soso thrilling andandand fruitful that we would be glad if we had space to publish it in full fullfruitfulthatveouldbegladifvehadspacetopublish*tinfull We are sure no reader of TILE JOURNAL will fail to read the fol folWearesurenoreaderofTIlEJOURXALvillfailtoreadthefol lowing rather extensive extracts from this admirable reportlowingratherextensiveextractsfromthisadmirablereport report MY DBAR Miss In looking back Miss ARMSTRONG ARIISTROI yearsIVryDEARMISSARlIsTRoNGInlookingbackovertheyears back over overthe yearstheyears years work I find great cause to praise the Lord who has enabled me to vorkfindgreatcausetopraisetheLordvhohasenabledmeto do what would have been utterly impossible had it not been for HisdfvhatvouldhavebeenutterlyimpossiblehaditnotbeenforIlis His ever present help in my every time of needeverpresenthelpinmyeverytimeofneed need Since rny my sickness sickness last last summer greatsummer II had had labored labored under under great greatgreat physical weakness but the Lord was my strength enabling me day by day to perform the manifold dutiesdaybydaytoperformthemanifoldduties duties Please accept in in the the following my yearmy report for the report for the past past year year Weeks of labor 46 weeks sick 6 visits and calls made 904 literature distributed 7318 pages Bibles distributed 8 addressesliteraturedistributed7518pagesBiblesdistributedSaddressesliteraturedistributed7518pagesBiblesdistributedSaddresses addresses made 14 visited sewing school 89 times scholars in attendanceattendance about 275 average attendance 175 collections received so far 3033 paid in the treasury of the Southern Baptist Convention 1696 to immigrant pier 00 times literature distributed there 26336 pages New Testaments distributed there 196 aid given 32 times thereby benefiting So persons amount expended 866 It isis impossible toto give soin figures give in figures all all the the work sowork that so done so that isis done while the figures may not show it yet I can truthfully say I have been kept very busy We have endeavored to sow the good seedseed at all times on the street to the passersbv in the streetcars and in the homes of the people and surely the Lord of the harvest harvestwill see to it that it will spring up and bear fruit in His own good b

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homeshomes My heart was often gladdened when on visiting the homes7lIyheartvasoftengladdenedwhenonvisitingthehomes lIyheartvasoftengladdenedwhenonvisitingthehomes earweeverereceivedasadearlonglookedforfriendandmanyear were received as a dear longlookedfor friend and many ear occasions nestvordsandferventprayersvereoffereduponsuchoccasions nest words and fervent prayers were offered up on such occasionsititit sewing schools continue to be as aa door through which itThe Thesevingschoolscontinuetobeasadoorthroughvhichit given is iseasytoreachthemothersandchildrenandconfidenceisgiven easy to reach the mothers and children and confidence is givenadversities In time of sickness or adversitiesus in almost every instance the they quickly turn to us and our advice is much valued In thetheyquicklyturntousandouradviceismuchvaluedInthe youngyoung into the the truth impress to tried have schools we sewing sevingschoolsvehavetriedtoimpressthetruthintotheyoung Hymns heartsteachingthemtheScripturesandthebeautifulGospelHymns hearts teaching them the Scriptures and the beautiful Gospel Hymnsearlyin earlyearly was which in the opened West Baltimore school The TheschoolinWestBaltimorevhichvasopenedintheearly however Much better work could be done howeveris progressing fall fallisprogressinglIuchbettervorkcouldhedonehovever howtheIt is surprising to see howthe we had more steady teachers if ifvehadmorsteadyteachersItissurprisingtoseehovthe locality classeshavingafaithfulteacherhavegrownVVorkinthislocality classes having a faithful teacher have grown Work in this localityare seems especially hard Being near the city limits the children areseemsespeciallyhardBeingnearthecityEmitsthechildrenare in much left to themselves and their own sweet will and this is felt inmuchlefttothen1selvesandtheirovnsveetvinandthisisfeltin inattention theschoolvheretheyshowmarkedirreverenceandinattention the school where they show marked irreverence and inattentionmust Our patience was often taxed and at times we thought we mustOurpatiencevasoftentaxedandattimesvethoughtvemust havewho have by assured those we were repeatedly when us but give giveusbutvhenevererepeatedlyassuredbythosevhohave visiseenandheardthatamarkedimprovementineveryvayisvisi seen and heard that a marked improvement in every way is visi andand I hope taken Lord courage and the thanked we have blevehavethankedtheLordandtakencourageIhopeand ble mismis a German we shall is when have distant far pray the time not sion in this section sioninthissection greatreapers are few and the work isis great greatThe Thereapersarefewandtheworkisgreat waitAnd much will be lost should the harvest wait AndmuchwillbelostshouldtheharvestwaiAndmuchwillbelostshouldtheharvestwait IMMIGRANT WORK THE WORWORtTIlEIDIIGRANTYORK TIlEIDIIGRANTYORK KThis DuringDuring KThis work endears itself more and more to my heart DuringThis ThisyorkendearsitselfmoreandmoretomyheartDuring past year we have met at the landing 10212 immigrants almost the thepastyearvehaveInetatthelanding10212immigrantsalmost in2000morethantheyerrbeforeIndicationspointtolargein 2000 more than the yerr before Indications point to large in moremore and more work the this making in immigration year crease creaseininlmigrationthisyearmakingthevorkmoreandmore would important But even as it is now inuch good is clone which wouldimportantButeTenasitisnov111uchgoodisdonevhichvould workwork this beleftundonehadtheBoardnottakenupthisvork be left undone had the Board not taken up number numberreport illustrates this feature of work by reciting aa numberThe 1hereportil1ustratesthisfeatreofyorkbyrecitinganumber immi of touching incidents where the poor lonely and helpless immioftouchingincidentsherethepoorlonelyandhelplessilllmi helped have been advised comforted and helpedgrantshavebeenadvisedcomfortedandhelped grants an anan One instance A joung German was found at at the pier with anOneinstanceAyoungGermanasfoundatthepierwithan of infant ten days of ace The young mother had died at the time ofinfanttendaysofa*geTheyoungmotherhaddiedatthetimeof ThethebirthofthechildonboardtheshipandvasburicdatseaThe the birth of the child on board the ship and was buried at sea The charge fatheraloneinexperiencedanddestitutevithhispreciouscharge father alone inexperienced and destitute with his precious chargerelatives had Ind he where AfterBend for South After destined was vasestinedforSothBendIndvherehehadrelativesAfter had seventytwoonly seventytwo he in exchange assisted being beingassistedinprocuringexchangehehadonlyseventyhvo procuring telegram centsOfthisSUTllthirtycentshadtobeexpendedinatelegram cents Of this sum thirty cents had to be expended in a telegramin regard regardinstructions milk given He was supplied with condensed IIeassuppliedvithcondensedmilkgveninstructionsinregard other tothecareofthechildfurnishedvithaaditionalchangeandother to the care of the child furnished with additional change and otherinstructions and 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destinationdestinationcase A mother with six children Their destination PV AnothercaseAmotherithsixchildreDTheirdestination tel Another is Minnesota They havehave The father is there awaiting them islVIinnesotaThefatheristheretaitingthemTheyhave nothing to eat and when asked if they do not know it is a long journey to undertake without anything to eat the mother repliesreplies journeytoundertakeithoutanythingoeattheInothelrepIS Oh yes but we have no money we cant buy anything MissMiss Buhlmaier food it beforeto them on the train just before and takes buys Buhlmaierbuysfoodandtakesittothemonthetrainjustbefore their departure The mother weeps the children laugh for joyjoy theirdepartureThemotherveepsthehildrnlalghforjoy while they grasp the hands of a stranger friend in a far stranger strangervhiletheygraspthehandsofastrangerfnendInafarstranger land to kiss them again Still another instance theand again the landtokissthemaoainandaainStillanotherinstancethe bbrecital of which we give in Miss Buhlmaiers own languagelanguage recitalofvhichvegiveinlIissBuhlmaiersornlanguage After the passengers have already taken toto the jump the train train II jumpjumpAfterthepassengershavealreadytakentothetrainIjump upon it to pass through to take a final look to make sure no oneone uponittopassthroughtotakeafinallooktomakesurenoone was I a neglected see family who untilescaped had my notice until vasneglectedIseeafamilyvhohadescapedInynoticeuntil now I go up to them asking several questions Seeing a smallsmall child I asked Have you any milk for him No dear ladylady we have looked all around but could get none to buy get Ill getsome you and quickly I turn running to the nearest store forfor yousomeandquicklyIturnrUlluingtotheneareststorefor fear the train will pull out before my return Coming back just in intime the milk is delivered the parents rejoice and before they find findtimethemilkisdeliveredtheparentsrejoiceandbeforetheyfind words to express their gratitude I bid them Godspeed get oil theyordstoexpressthei1gratitudeIbidthen1Godspeedgetoffthe the train and off they go Will they be likely to forget the God Godsend in the last remaining momentsmoments Several letters were ininwere received from from persons persons receiving help in help in which they again thanked for it and the words spoken to themvhichtheygainthankedforitandtheyordsspokentothem them The literature and The and especially the gladly New Testaments are the New TheliteratureandespeciallytheNevTestamentsaregladly aregladlygladlygladly received Often can we see those having received a copy amid allall the noise and turmoil fix their eyes and mind on the precious bookbook and its contents Whenever possible in cases where we are es especially moved and impressed we get the address and notify thethe pastor or some one of that place to try and lock after them ButpastororsomeoneofthatplacetotryandlookaftertheIneBut But often my heart is heavy when I find that there is no German churchoftenmyheartisheavyvhenIfindthatthereisnoGennanchurch church of our faith in the parts some of these people go to toThe report delineates the important work among those who rere main in Baltimore How they are helped advised and kept up with and drawn into the Sundayschools the industrial schoolsschools and brought under the influence of the Gospel andbroughtundertheinfluenceoftheGospeandbroughtundertheinfluenceoftheGospe1 GospelThe report closes with the following paragraph paragraphThus we see see while while progress outlook progress isis naturally slow yet naturally slow the outlookoutlook yet the is hopeful Hoping to be enabled to labor in the Lords vineyardvineyard and asking to be remembered at the mercy seat I remainremain Yours In nameHis name Yours In His name 1YoursInIlisname YoursInIlisname1nameIYoursInIlisname BUHLMAIER BUHLMAIEM INT NT BUIILIIAIEKBUIILIIAIEK 11BUIILIAIER11BUIILIAIER 1BUIILIAIER RMissions Missions Missions have have progressed progressed slowly andslowly abroad abroad because and because piety piety and prayer have been shallow at home

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us have a universal rally to our Home Mission Board LetLetLetushaveauniyersalralIytoourIfolnewlissionBoardJJet Let this Board come to the Convention in May not only as usual with withthisBoardCOlnetotheConventioninlfaynotonlyasusualvith aareportofgreatachievemtntsmadealloverthevastfieldsin inreport of great achievements made all over the vast fields in its laborers toil but with all obligations met and dischargedwhich yhichitslaborerstoilbutwitha11obligationsmetanddischarged discharged leaving a handsome balance to its credit All churches societiesleavingahandsomebalancetoitscreditAllchurchessocieties societies and individuals cooperating in the great work of home evangeliandindividualscooperatinginthegreatyorkofhomeevangeli evangeli zation should promptly forward to the treasurer increased contribuzationshouldproInptyforwardtothetreasurerincreasedcontribu contribu tions before the last day of April The time is short and we shouldtionsbeforethelastdayofAptiIThetilneisshortandveshould should attend to this important matter at onceattendtothisimportailttnatteratonce once IIhaveahvaysbeenanearnestthoughafeebleadvocateof have always been an earnest though aa feeble advocate ofofof State and home mission work Communities States nations that thatStateandhomen1isionvorkCommunitiesStatesnationsthat are thoroughly permeated with the principles of the gospel are thearcthoroughlypenneatedviththeprinciplesofthegospelarethe the strongest the most elevated and most progressive They are thethe strongesttheInostelevatedandmostprogressiveTheyarethe best as well as the 11 best off in every sense and from every pointpoint of view People impressed with the great truths that God has rere ofyiewPeopleimpressediththegreattruthsthatGodhasre vealed to men do most for their own home and community mostvealedtotnendomostfortheironhomeandcommunitymost most for other lands and nations and most to lift humanity everywhereeverywhere to higher planes of living and nobler and holier aims and effortsefforts tohigherplanesofJivingandnoblerandholieraimsandefforts this great nation is to become the leading power and centralIf Ifthisgratnationistobecometheleadingpoyerandcentral central of this great world and permanently hold such exalted emi light emilightofthisgreatvorldandpermanentlyholdsuchexaltedemi nence the grand and glorious distinction will be attained only byby nencethegrandandgloriousdistinctionviIIbeattainedonlyby the general prevalence of revealed truth and the general recognithegeneralprevalenceofrevealedtruthandthegeneralrecogni recogni tion of divine precept and principle Vast military armaments by tionofdivinepreceptandprincipleTastmilitaryarmamentsby land and by sea may give us temporary prowess but in the futurelandandbyseamaygiveustemporaryprovessbutinthefuture future our race will never tolerate and respect and honor a people whowho ourracevil1neertolerateandrespectandhonorapeoplevho byvirtueofthechoicestlocationintheyorIdblessedvhhinex by virtue of the choicest location in the world blessed with inexinex haustible internal resources and unequailed natural surroundingshustibleinternalreourcesanduntquai1ednaturalsurroundings surroundings toenjoys unprecedented advantages shall use these advantages to enjoysunprecedentedadvantagesshallustheseadntagesto hasgratify spirit the of greed and Such selfa*ggrandizement has gratifythepritofgreedandselfa*ggJandizementSuchhas been nowtrue of all great nations in the past but the world has now beentrueofallgreatnationsinthepastbutthevorIdhasnov a reached which moral status demands other standards of truetrue reachedaInoralstatushichdemandsotherstandardsoftrue and To successful greatness leadership hold the foremost placeplace greatnessandsuccessfulleadershipToholdtheforemostplace we must make ourselves worthy of such distinction NumbersvemustmakeourselvesvorthyofsuchdistinctionNumbers Numbers wealth and martial prowess will never secure to us or to anyany people the undivided respect and love of mankind These havehave peopletheundividedrespectandloeofmankindThesehave always in the worlds history been made the means of dominationdomination ahvaysinthevorldshistorybeenmadethemeansofdomination and oppression of other and feebler tribes and nations To bring bringandoppressionofotherandfeeblertribesandnationsTobring into requisition physical brute force or military prowess to accomaccom intorequisitionphysicalbruteforceortnilitaryprovesstoaccom plish the ends of unhallowed greed and ambition in this day wouldwould plishtheendsofunhallovedgreedandambitioninthisdayvould call down the execration and condemnation of all civilized governgovern calldovntheexecrationandcondemnationofallciviji*zedgovern ments Moral and philanthropic principles aims and ends mustmust mentslIoralandphilanthropicprinciplesaimsandendsmust distinguish both individuals and nations to make them truly great 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and give to to them the virthe highest places The andcrivetothemthehicrhestplacesThemoralandChristianvir Themoral moraland virandChristian vir vir tues exhibited in the personal characters of our citizens in all rela tuesexhibitedinthepersonalcharacters0ourcitizens111area relations and on every field at home and abroad will command the tionsandoneveryfieldathomeandabroadviIIcommandthe therespect and admiration of all men of every clime and country We cannot claim a superior religion and get the freethinking freethinkingworld to admit the validity of such a claim while the lives of thosevorIdtoadmitthevalidityofsuchaclaimvhilethelivesofthose those who make such pretensions are inconsistent with its fundamentalvhomakesuchpretensionsareinconsistentvithitsfundamental fundamental principles and precepts and deny in toto its purity and its powerpower And what is true of the citizen will find expression in the legislalegisla tion of the country Its dealings with other nationalities on great greatquestions of commerce and territorial limitations as well as our local statutes reflect the moral type of the constituency for legislegis lation is but the general consensus of private opinion and demand High moral tone in both individual and governmental life andand action lifts a people to the highest prominence and dr ivs all heartsactionliftsapeopletothehighestprolninenceanddra5allhearts hearts to them the world over All home mission work looks to thesethese ends The principles and precepts of the Bible universally obob served produce such results and it is the glory of our country that thatunder the great principle of religious freedom the Bible has beenunderthegreatprincipleofreligiousfieedoIntheBiblehasbeen been more generally distributed and the gospel more widely preached preachedthan in any other land or nation Our people are really better in formed in scriptural doctrines and revelations than others Perfect Perfectreligious freedom and the general study of the Bible has been thethe most potent factor in making this country the marvel of the world in progress and development I am glad to know that many statesstates men in high positions are beginning to recognize the fact that not by legal statutes however wise and efficient but by the gospel the living ministry the church the school we are to make a true in telligent and noble citizenship It was but a few days ago that our first citizen the President of this great republic laid aside thethe arduous labors of his high office and travelled to a distant toto city make a speech on home missions This was a significant act and carries with it a great lesson The Western senator who attacked him for doing so in a speech for buncombe on Senate clearly demonstrated his incapacity for the the floor of the ofcornerstone of our government and its greatest glory is the principle which gives to every man however high however low to Bold teach prac and tice his religion true or falseticehisreIigiontrueorfitIseticehisreIigiontrueorfitIse false Home Home mission mission work work preaching preaching teaching teaching circulating the theBible Bible saturating the whole land with Bible doctrinescirculating precepts prom and ises will Christianize sanctify and save our people and give us the leadership of the world and the love of all mankind Let us all go for home missions and go with an earnestness and power to make our work felt in all other departments of Christian effort and in

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every nook and corner of our great country Do this and we wehelp every interest religious or secular at home and to all the ends 1helpeveryinterestreJigiousorseclIarathon1eandtoallheends helpeveryinterestreJigiousorseclIarathon1eandtoallheends endsof the earthearth oftheearth Hollins Ilollrzzs Va CHARLES L co*ckE Coc1EL co*ckE11

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B H Dement missionary of the Home Board at Brother Brother BrotherBHDementmissionaryoftheHomeBoardatLexBrotherBHDementmissionaryoftheHomeBoardatLex LexLexat Lex ington Va presents an excellent report of work done for the year yearstending April i st endingtpril1st In submitting the report Brother Dement says ocII preach oc ococ in neighboring schoolhouses casionally casionlllyinneighboringschoolhousesWehavebrickonchurch We have brick on churchchurch lot for rebuilding and enlarging our Sundayschool room and hopelotforrebuildingandenlargingourSundayschoolroomandhope hope to begin work on improving the building at once oncetobeginorkonimprovingthebuildingatonce The following is a synopsis of Brother Dements wrork for ThefollovingisasynopsisofBrotherDementsyorkfortheThefollovingisasynopsisofBrotherDementsyorkforthe thethe for thethe

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EDuring During the century ending with 1890 the During the thethe population of 5Duringthecenturyeningvith1890thepopulationofthe Duringthecenturyeningvith1890thepopulationofthe of thethe United States increased from 39392 14 to about 63000000 or orUnitedStatesincreasedfrom3939214toabout63000000or about sixteenfold During the same period the Baptists increasedaboutsixteenfoldDuringthesameperiodtheBaptistsincreased increased from from65345to3717969OInorethanfiftysixfoldIfotheranti 65345 to 3717969 or more than fiftysixfold anti If other antipedobaptist and immersionist parties were considered the rate of ofpedobaptistandimmersionistpartiesvereconsideredtherateof Baptist increase would be considerably larger Thus it appearsBaptistincreasevouldbeconsiderablylargerThusitappears appears from 1790 to 1890 Baptists have increased nearly four times as that asthatfrom1790to1890Baptistshaveincreasednearlyfourtimesas fast as the population It must also be borne in mind that BaptistsBaptists fastasthepopulationItmustalsobeborneinmindthatBaptists have gained far less from immigration than almost any other of thehavegainedfarlessfromimmigrationthanalmostanyotherofthe the Lutherans Roman larger denominations Catholics PresbyteriansPresbyterians largerdenominationslu*theransRomanCatholisPresbyterians and Episcopalians have profited largely by the great influx of popuandEpiscopa1ianshaveprofitedlargelybythegreatinfluxofpopu popu from Ireland Germany England Scotland Italy and thelation the lationfromIrelandGermanyEnglandScotlandItalyandthe Scandinavian and Slavonic countries of Europe Baptist immigraimmigra ScandinavianandSlavoniccountriesofEuropeBaptistimmigra tion has been insignificant in comparisoncomparison tionhasbeeninsignificantincomparison so large a part of the With the theof the the population of the country under under thethe vVithsolargeapartofthepopulationofthecountryunderthe influence of Baptists with prejudices against their principles inin influenceofBaptistsvithprejudicesagainsttheirprinciplesin with great measure overcome with principles in thorough accord withgreatmeasureovercomewithprinciplesinthoroughaccordvith the cherished civil institutions of the nation with a constituency thecherishedcivilinstitutionsofthenationvithaconstituency

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and and opportunities that comefrom thatcome frompastpast pastpast success with home and foreign mission societies well organized in receipt of large incomes and face to face with their wort with witheducational institutions of the highest grade widely distributed throughout the country with publication facilities and a religious religiouspress that leave nothing to be desired with a fair measure of wealth pressthatleavenothingtobedesiredvithafairtneasureofveaIth wealthand social position and a firm hold of the middle classes of the popu lation the achievements during the coming century should surpass those of the past thoseofthepast AAU1IVERSALLANGUAGE LANGUAGEA UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AU1IVERSALLANGUAGELANGUAGELANGUAGE

The The English English Promises Promises totobebea a Universal It would wouldUniversal Language wouldLangzuicIt would appear that God has always chosen some one language to be a ve hicle of his thoughts When mankind was in its cradle and He desired that the law should be the schoolmaster that would pre prepare men for the coming Christ He spoke in the pictorial Hebrew When it was necessary that the Gospel should have the widest pub licity the Roman power extended around the world and the Greek

language was universal Paul the great missionary under the theprotection of his Roman citizenship could travel over the knownknown world in comparative safety and in the Greek language could couldmake every man understand the wonderful work of God Thus Thus will will God God make make the peoplethe power powerofofthe theEnglishspeaking Englishspeaking people people praise Him He has tied the world together by the swift steam steamships that plough the ocean blue and the steel rail of the horse The swift message of the telegraph gives the nationsiron a common sympathy by a common knowledge And the ubiquitous American gives a common language to the world This This isis not toomuch not too Englishmuch totohope hope ororexpect expect Already Alreadythe English English language saturated with Christian ideas gathering up the into itself the best thoughts of all ages is the great agent of Christian civilization throughout the world at this moment affecting the destinies and moulding the character of half of the human race Grimm Jacob the German philologist said of this language It seems chosen to rule in future times in a still greater degree in all of the corners of the earth The language of Shakespeare is to be the language of mankind and this language shall extend its influenceinfluence Till the war drum throbs no longer and 11

battle flags furldTill the war drum throbs no longer andthe furld the battle flagsareare furld In the Parliament of man the Federation of worlthe world From all

dFrom From all of that the future ofthese these considerations considerations ititwould wouldappear of the Englishspeaking people was assuredappear that the future said One great result is I think tolerably clearHerbert Spencer From biologi cal truths it is to be inferred that the eventual mixture of the allied

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varieties of the Aryan race forming the population will produce aavarietiesoftheAryanraceformingthepopulationvillproducea more powerful type of man than has hitherto existed and a type ofmorepoverfultypeofJuanthanhash*thertoexistedandatypeof of man more plastic more adaptable more capable of undergoing themanmoreplasticmoreadaptablemorecapableofundergoingthe the modifications needful to complete social life I think whatevermodificationsneedfultocompletesociallifeIthinkvhatever whatever difficulties they may have to surmount and t hatever tribulationsdifficultiestheymayhavetosurmountandhatevertribulations tribulations they may have to pass through the Americans may reasonably theymayhavetopassthroughtheAmericansmayreasonably look forward to a time when they will have produced a civilizationcivilization grander than any the world has knowngranderthananythevorIdhasknovn known With all of these facts before us my conclusion is not far toVithallofthesefactsbeforeusmyconclusionisnotfarto to reach We must see to it that the Englishspeaking people areare reachVemustseetoitthattheEnglishspeakingpeopleare rooted and grounded in the faith of the Gospel of Jesus Christ androotedandgroundedinthefaithoftheGospelofJesusChristand and then kindle an enthusiasm in their hearts for the conversion of thethenkindleanenthusiasmintheirheartsfortheconversionofthe the world that will only be satisfied with preaching the gospel roundvorldthatvillonlybesatisfiedvithpreachingthegospelround round roue and this old world I do not think it will be undue for me meandrOUL1thisoldvorldIdonotthinkitviIIbeundueforme to say I know none more that thecapable of doing this than are the tosaythatIknoynonemorecapableofdoingthisthanarethe Baptists I believe the highest type of Christian manhood is a BapBaptistsIbelievethehighesttypeofChristianmanhoodisaBap Bap tist And holding the truth as I believe he does it is his dutyduty a flaming torch to light up every dark place of the earthwith vithaflamingtorchtolightupeverydarkplaceoftheearth earth Christian T ChristianJohn John1Christian 1

Whether considered as a seat of agriculture mining or manuVVhetherconsideredasaseatofa*griculturemnl1ngormanu manu facture the south is still virgin soil Its possibilities are even more morefacturethesouthisstillvirginsoilItspossibHitiesareevenmore remarkable than its recent progress and as the one is developeddeveloped and the other expands it is destined to add in the near future moreandtheotherexpandsitisdestinedtoaddinthenearfuturemore more than any other part of the country to the aggregate wealth of ththe thananyotherpartofthecountrytotheaggregatevealthofthe HeraldnationTheBosto1lHerald enationThe nationThe Boston Herald It rests largely with the Baptists to determine if it shall also alsoItrestslargelyyiththeBaptiststodetermineifitshallalso to add the wealthmoral and religious wealth addtothemoralandreligiousyeaIth Who can complain of a narrow sphere for action when God VhocancomplainofanarrovsphereforactionvhenGod Godgives him a Worldwide sphere for prayer giveshimavorIdwidesphereforprayer prayerfirst recorded apostolic act after the ascension was thee The theThefirstrecordedapostolicactaftertheascensionasthe

egathering gathering in the upper chamber at JerusalemgatheringintheupperchamberatJerusalem Jerusalem

first two things it the early church were prayer and misThe mis ThefirsttyOthingsintheearlychurchvereprayerandnl1S sions and the deepest alliance in the earlv church was between betweenmissions cnrcerand prayerThe 17Iissiona y Intclii cnrcer missionsandprayc1Thcl1IissiollaJIJllclcl1ccr

In the history of the early church whose development for years Inthchistoryoftheearlychurchwhosedevelopmentforyears yearswas almost the start of missionary progress every step was chris chrisyasalmostthestartofmission3ryprogresseverystepvaschris tened and crowned by prayerThe lllissionai y Intellig cnccr tenedandcrovnedbyprayerThcJ1IissiOUl111ltcllgcllcertenedandcrovnedbyprayerThcJ1IissiOUl111ltcllgcllcer

The 13lission journal journalTheJ1fissio1lJournal TheJ1fissio1lJournaMis- constituted 1 and houses of worship William McCombs Yndiatl Mis worshipi1l1anMcCombsJrndlatllIsconstitutcd1andhousesofworship li1l1anMcCombsJrndlatllIs i1l1anMcCombsJrndlatllIs constitutcd1andhousesofworshisionarysionarysionary sionary 3 at a cast of 51050 pbuilt3atacastoflmJO built 51050built3atacastoflmJOTbuilt3atacastoflmJO Bro TichenorIn connection Dear connectionDearBroTichellorInconnectionDearBroTichellorInconnection my annual report I want to saysay with withIllYannualreportIwauttosawithIllYannualreportIwauttosa following letter is from an es esThe ThefollowingletterisfromaneThefollowingletterisfromanes hefollowingletterisfromanes that never in the history of the CreeitCreeit thatllcerinthehistoryoftheCreej inteemed brother in the ministry in teemedbrotherintheministryinGsteemedbrotherintheministryin teemedbrotherintheministryin beenandSeminoleBaptistshavetheybeeu and Seminole Baptists have they been GeorgiaGeorgia Georgeorgia more determined and firm to discharge dischargemoredeterminedandtrmtodisclmre youDear want to thank you Brother iaDearrotherIwanttothankou DearrotherIwanttothankousDearrotherIwanttothankou aretheir Christian duties than they are theirChristiandutiesthantIleyare sincerely sending for tracts the sincerelyforsendingthetractsI incerelyforsendingthetractsII 34

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are doing noble work supply supplysionaries ionariesarcdoingnobleworkBupionariesarcdoingnobleworkBuppl ing pllngdestituteplacesandtheLordis lngdestituteplacesandtheLordisbldestitute places and the Lord islngdestituteplacesandtheLordis is blessingtheirlaborsblessing blessingtheirlabors essingtheirlabors their laborslabors My duty connected with our Associa lydutyconnectedwithourAssocilydutyconnectedwithourAssocia Association is that of corresponding secreationisthatofcorresponc1ingseClC tionisthatofcorresponc1ingseClC secre tary and superintending the WichitataryandsuperintendingtheWlchitataryandsuperintendingtheWlchita Wichita Church out at Anadarko The chief of ofChurchoutatAnadarlw1hcchiefof ChurchoutatAnadarlw1hcchiefthe Richitas is one of the most noble nobleofthechitasisoneofthemostnoble thechitasisoneofthemostnoblthechitasisoneofthemostnoble men I ever met Christian HavingHaving ChristianmenIeermetHavingsereChristianmenIeermetHaving ChristianmenIeermetHaving served as Moderator of our AssociationservedasiodcratorofourAssociation Association vedasiodcratorofourAssociation servedasiodcratorofourAssociafor so many years they call me fatherfather tionforoIllanearthecallmefather foroIllanearthecallmefatherforoIllanearthecallmefather and will not follow the advice of ofandwillnotfollowtheadviceofstandwillnotfollowtheadviceof strangers On several occasions theyrangersOnseeraloccasionsthey strangersOnseeraloccasionsthestrangersOnseeraloccasionsthey they have been persuaded to sever theirhavebeenpersuadedtoseertheircoyhavebeenpersuadedtoseertheir havebeenpersuadedtoseertheir their connection with us and join one of theconnectionwithusandjoinoneofthe nnectionwithusandjoinoneofthe the Associations not in sympathy with theAssociationsnotinsmpathwiththiAssociationsnotinsmpathwiththi the Home Mission Board but they haveHornel1issionBoardbutthey1mverHornel1issionBoardbutthey1mve have remained with us unmovablecmain2dwithusunmovable rcmain2dwithusunmovabrcmain2dwithusunmovable unmovable In some locations where familiesleInsomelocationswherefamilies Insomelocationswherefamiliesfamilies Insomelocationswherefamilies are thickly settled and the majorityarethicklysettledandthemajoritoarethicklysettledandthemajorit majority of them are English speaking we havefthemareEnglishspeakingwehave ofthemareEnglishspeakingwehave have Sunday schools in operation and while SundaySCl100lsinoperationandwhih SundaySCl100lsinoperationandwwhileI give them all the encouragement I hihIgicthemalltheencouragementI IgicthemalltheencouragementIcIgicthemalltheencouragementI can but not being directly connectedcanbutnotheingdirectlrconn8ctedcanbutnotheingdirectlrconn8cted anbutnotheingdirectlrconn8cted connected with the work I have never included includedwiththeworkIhaveneverincludedwiththeworkIhaveneverincluded them in my report as my work isis mostly with the full bloods They bemostlywithtlwfullloollsTheybeimostlywithtlwfullloollsTheybe be ing sparsely settled it would be ditll ingsparselysettlellitwouldbedim ngsparselysettlellitwouldbedim ingsparselysettlellitwouldbediditllcult to conduct a Sunday school schoolmculttoconductaSundaschooL culttoconductaSundaschooLAnculttoconductaSundaschooL Another ditliculty is they have no SunAnotherditlcuItyistheyhavenoSun otherditlcuItyistheyhavenoSun Sun dayschool dayschoolliteratureintheirlanguagedayschoolliteratureintheirlanguage literature in their languagelanguage Your brother in ChristYourbrotherinChristChrist YourbrotherinChrist McCOMBSWILLIAM McCOMBS WILLIAlfIcCOlIBSWILLIAlfIcCOlIBS April 11 1896 1896April11189April111896 Bro McCombs report shows 47 BrolIcCombsreportshows47we476BrolIcCombsreportshows47 BrolIcCombsreportshows47 weeks of service stations supplied 40 40weeksofservicestaUonssupplied40 weeksofservicestaUonssupplied4eksofservicestaUonssupplied40 sermons and addresses 130 prayerprayer 0sermonsandaddresses130prayer sermonsandaddresses130prayersermonsandaddresses130prayer meetings attended 56 Indians bapmeetingsattendedfiGIndiansbap bap 38 religious visits 47 churches tized tized38rcliiousvisitsL17churches I-

preach to strong country churches but preachtostrongcOtntrychurcheshut preachtostrongcOtntrychurcheshbutto a people who have not been edu uttoapCOIIewhohnenotbeenedu edutoapCOIIewhohnenotbeenedu toapCOIIewhohnenotbeened-

whatcated to give I did not know what catedtogiveIdidnotlnowwbatwcatedtogiveIdidnotlnowwbat ucatedtogiveIdidnotlnowwbat was best I could not advise with the thewasbestIcouldnotadvisewiththewasbestIcouldnotadvisewiththe asbestIcouldnotadvisewiththe

Church for I had learned that some someChurchforIhadlearnedthatsomewChurchforIhadlearnedthatsome

opposed to missions some were were wereopposedtomissionssomewereereopposedtomissionssomewere wereopposedtomissionssomewere wereopposed to the Boards and some were opposedtotheBoardsandsomeweropposedtotheBoardsandsomewere were-

aealittleafraidoftouchingtheBrer little afraid of touching the Brer BreralittleafraidoftouchingtheBrer alittleafraidoftouchingtheBrWithout consulting any one I an anUhoutonsultinganyoneIannoerUhoutonsultinganyoneIan UhoutonsultinganyoneIan nounced nouncedthatthelastthingoeforeounouncedthatthelastthingoeforeour that the last thin before ouruncedthatthelastthingoeforeour our Sunday morning sermon would be aarSundamorningsermonwouldbea SundamorningsermonwouldbeaSundamorningsermonwouldbea collection for missions They werecollectionformissionsTheywere were surprised But we take the collections surprisedButwetakethecollections collectionswithout song and every collection haswithoutsongandeerycollectionhaswithoutsongandeerycollectionhas has been in advance of the preceding one onebeeninadanceoftheprecedingonbeeninadanceoftheprecedingone Some complaint I heard at first buteSomecomplaintIheflrdatfirstbut SomecomplaintIheflrdatfirstbuSomecomplaintIheflrdatfirstbut but they have thehavelearnedthatitdoesusallglearned that It does us allall tthehavelearnedthatitdoesusall thehavelearnedthatitdoesusall good giveto give goodtogivgoodtogive oodtogive I read Bro Molts Experience to toeIreadBroHolesExperienceto IreadBroHolesExperiencetomIreadBroHolesExperienceto my congregations before our last col colmycongregationsbeforeourlastcol ycongregationsbeforeourlastcol lections and I am sure that those who wholectionsandIamsurethatthosewholectionsandIamsurethatthosewho opposed the Boards and missions beopposedtheBoardsandmissionsbe be fore gill keept the matter strictly to toforewilllieeptthemntterstrictlyto themselves in the future Oh the tearsthemselvesInthefufureOhthetears tears themselvesInthefufureOhtheteere shed that weIt seemed that we arsthatereshellItseemedthatwe thatereshellItseemedthatweerthatereshellItseemedthatwe going to have a regular suninierwere ereOhIgtohanangularsummertereOhIgtohanangularsummer eOhIgtohanangularsummer suninier time country revival timecountQleivatimecountQleival imecountQleival reviva-

lCooperative Cooperative lCooperativeVorlliuAlaball1a CooperativeVorlliuAlaball1aSCooperativeVorlliuAlaball1a AlabamaSWork In Alabama Selina Ala March 31 1S96elina 1S96 SelmaAlalIarch31lSUG elmaAlalIarch31lSUG SelmaAlalIarch31lSUMy Dear BrotherPlease find en enGlIyDearBrotherPleasefinden lIyDearBrotherPleasefindenlIyDearBrotherPleasefinden

my quarterly report closed closedmyquarterlyreportIhave I have have-

just closed a very interesting institute justdosedaveryinterestinginstitute instituteat Rockford Coosa county the most atRockfordCoosacountythemostimostatRockfordCoosacountythemost interesting one yet held by myself For nterestingoneyetheldbymyselfFor interestingoneyetheldbymyselfFointerestingoneyetheldbymyselfFor Forthree days we had a crowded house rthreedayswehadacrowdedhouse threedayswehadacrowdedhousethreedayswehadacrowdedhouse housepeople came from ten to fifteen the fifteenthel1eol1lecamefromtentofifteen miles Indeed the success of the insti instimilesIndeedthesuccessoftheinstimilesIndeedthesuccessoftheinsti tute was far beyond my expectation tutewasfarbeyon1myexpectation expectationwere earnest pleas from all sides There Therewereearnestpleasfromallsides

1I01JICDeart1JICll1I01JICDeart1JICllt s1I01JICDeart1JICllt Home IIonic DepartmentDepartment I should return as soon as possi that possitthntIshouldreturnfiSsoonaspossi thntIshouldreturnfiSsoonaspossi thntIshouldreturnfiSsoonasposble I feel that much good is being beingsibleIfeelthatmuehgoodisbeing bleIfeelthatmuehgoodisbeingdbleIfeelthatmuehgoodisbeing by this plan of cooperation done cooperationdonebthisplanofcooperationdonebthisplanofcooperation onebthisplanofcooperation Yours for the success of the plan planYoursforthesuccessoftheplaYoursforthesuccessoftheplan R T POLLARD POLLARDR1POLluRDGnR1POLluRD R1POLluRD Missionary for Alabama General AlabamaGenerall1issionarJforAlabama enerall1issionarJforAlabama Generall1issionarJforAlaba-

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counts of other institutes held in differ differcountsofotherinstitutesheldludiffer ent great Parts of the State and the greatcutpartsoftbeStateultl1cgreatgocutpartsoftbeStateultl1cgreat good being accolnplislied accolnplisliegoodleiulaccomplished goodleiulaccomplishodleiulaccomplished GoHpeldTeniiessec GospeledTenJlesNeedHtheGOHpel TenJlesNeedHtheGOHpelCTennessee TenJlesNeedHtheGOHpel leeiH tlie GoHpel Columbia 1S9G 1896ColumbiaTennApril1lS9GDColumbiaTennApril1lS9G Teun April 11 1S9olumbiaTennApril1lS9G GDear your Dear As missionary of yourBrother ourDear131ot11er1smissionaryofYOUl ear131ot11er1smissionaryofYOUl BrotlierAs 3 our

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IIwrIteyouafewfactsconcerningthe write you a few facts conceriiiiig the thein Ls immediate section of our ourwork worlilld8inullediatesectionofourbworlilld8inullediatesectionofour Statebeautiful State beautifulStatebeautifulState eautifulState Having yearstravelled the State four years HavingtravelledtheStatefouryears

in the interest of our Orphans Home HomeIntheinterestofourOrphansHomIntheinterestofourOrphansHome IeIthinkIampreparedtospeakofthe think I am prepared to speak of the theIthinkIampreparedtospeakofthe relative destitution in the various secsec relativedestitutioninthevarioussec tions help of the State that are asking helptionsoftheStatethatareaskinghelp tionsoftheStatethatareaskinghelour Mission Boards I am on thepofourlission13oard811monthe of the ofourlission13oard811montheboofourlission13oard811monthe border borderofa*greatfieldabout200miles of a great field about 200 milesrderofa*greatfieldabout200miles miles long and an average of about 40 mileslongandanaerageofabout40milelongandanaerageofabout40miles miles Much of this country is Duck wide DuckwideluehofthiscountryisDuckanswideluehofthiscountryisDuck wideluehofthiscountryisDuck and Tennessee river bottom lands WeWe andrrennesseeriverbottomlandsVe drrennesseeriverbottomlandsVe tohave three missionaries employed to havethreemissionariesemployedto waste reachwiththeGospelthisgreatwastereachwiththeGospelthisgreatwaste with the Gospel this great wastereach placeplacplace

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have havenotetreplieAnot yet repliedreplied havenotetreplie All preparations at the ChattanoogaAllthepreparationsatChattanooga at Chattanooga llthepreparationsatChattanooga AllthepreparationsatChattanooare going forward with beautifulgaaregoingforwardwithbeautiful aregoingforwardwithbeautifulparegoingforwardwithbeautiful beautiful promptness and energy The Church promptnessandenergyTheChurcpromptnessandenergyTheChurch ChurchromptnessandenergyTheChurch is selected PresbyterianPresbyterian the First hselectedistIleFirstPresbrterian selectedistIleFirstPresbrterianselectedistIleFirstPresbrterian Church corner Seventh street andChurchcomerSeventhstreetandGand ChurchcomerSeventhstreetand Georgia avenue only a half block re reGeorgiaavenueonlyal1alfblockreGeorgiaavenueonlyal1alfblockre eorgiaavenueonlyal1alfblockre moved from the Convention Church ChurchmovedfromtheConventionChurcmovedfromtheConventionChurch The sessions will be as usual on FriFri hThesessionswillbeasusualonFri ThesessionswillbeasusualonFriThesessionswillbeasusualonFri day Saturday and Monday mornings1aSaturdayandIond3Ymornings mornings 1aSaturdayandIond3Ymornifrom 0 A M to 12 M on Sunday at 230 P M Mrs John Eager of ItalyItaly ngs230Pflr8TohnEagerofItaly 230Pflr8TohnEagerofItalyi230Pflr8TohnEagerofItaly Miss MissSallie Bale of Mexico and Miss issalIieHaleofIexicoandIissBuissalIieHaleofIexicoandIiss ssalIieHaleofIexicoandIiss BalBuhlmaier German missionary in Bal BuhlmaierGermanmissionarinBaBuhlmaierGermanmissionarinBal hlmaierGermanmissionarinBal timore whose interesting call to theltimorewhoseinterestingcalltothe timorewhoseinterestingcalltothetimorewhoseinterestingcalltothe the work was given in the April JournalworkwasgivenintheAprilJournalworkwasgivenintheAprilJournal Journal will be present The recommendationswillbepresentThrecommendationwillbepresentThrecommendations recommendations Homeof the three BoardsForeign Home softhethreeBoardsForeignHome ofthethreeBoardsForeignHomeofthethreeBoardsForeignHome and Sunday Schoolwill constitute asas andSundaSchoolwiIlconstitute1andSundaSchoolwiIlconstitute1 usual the lines of work for adoptionadoption usualtIlelinesofworlforadoptiousualtIlelinesofworlforadoption by the Womans Missionary Union UnionbytheromansIissionaryUnioIlTnbytheromansIissionaryUnioIl bytheromansIissionaryUnioIl The recommendations of the W 1I UUherecommendationsoftbeV11U TherecommendationsoftbeV11U TherecommendationsoftbeV11Misunder a very pleasing device of Mis Uunderaverypleasingdeviceof1is underaverypleasingdeviceof1is sionary Vowels will embody methodsmethods sionarVowelswi1lclllbodJlllCthods of work The seven vowels will standstand ofworkThesevenvowelswillstandfofworkThesevenvowelswillstand uponforasmanymethodsdiscussionsupon for as many methods discussions upon orasmanymethodsdiscussionsupon these being started by seven invitedthesebeingstartedbJseveninvited invited speakers delegates spealerswhileallofthedelegatesbspealerswhileallofthedelegates while all of the delegateshaving bavingtheprintedproglumsinhand avingtheprintedproglumsinhand the printed programs in handhand set before attending the meeting can setbeforeattendingthemeetingcanset their ideas in order to further discussdiscuss theirideasinordertofurtherdiscuss these methods The secretaries of thethe thesemethods1hesecretariesofthe Boards will all be in attendance andand Boardswillallbeinattendanceand will confine themselves to speciallyspecially willconfinethemselvestospecially important dephases of their special de importantphasesoftheirspecialde partments of work A reception will be partmentsofwOlkAreceptionwillbe

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given by by the to-to the ladies ofof Chattanooga to givenbytheladiesofChattanoogatotlgivenbytheladiesofChattanoogato totheir visitorstl1eirvisitortl1eirvisitors visitors 1eirvisitors Preparations Preparations only only however necesPreparationsonl9howeverneces Preparationsonl9howevernecePreparationsonl9howeverneces neces necesneces sary and the more thorough the betssaryandthemorethoroughthebet saryandthemorethoroughthebetsaryandthemorethoroughthebet bet terpreparations only terpreparationsollIJWitllOutthterpreparationsollIJWitllOutthe thewithout the Spirit will be as Ezekiels vision of ofSiritwillbeasEzekielsvisionofdreSiritwillbeasEzekielsvisionof SiritwillbeasEzekielsvisionof dry bones The prayers of our 700000drybonesTheprayersofour700000drybonesTheprayersofour700000 ybonesTheprayersofour700000 700000 Baptist women for the seventy proba Baptistwomenfortheseventyproba probable delegates who may be privilegedbledelegateswhoIllabeprivilegebledelegateswhoIllabeprivileged privileged to go will bring down a divine intogowillbringdownadivineinspidtogowillbringdownadivinein togowillbringdownadivinein in upon our representatives at spiration spirationUPOllourrepresentativesat rationUPOllourrepresentativesat atin Chattanooga that none shall work workinChattanoogathatnoneshaworkinChattanoogathatnoneshall shallbe able to gainsay or resist Work cn llbeabletogainsaorresistYorken beabletogainsaorresistYorkenobeabletogainsaorresistYorken cnour knees at home will be manifest inourkneesathomewillbemanifestiourkneesathomewillbemanifestin in urkneesathomewillbemanifestin thought and speech at consecrated nconsecratedthoughtandspeechat atconsecratedthoughtandspeechconsecratedthoughtandspeechat Chattanooga Who will give her heratChattanoogtlVhowillgiveher ChattanoogtlVhowillgiveherpChattanoogtlVhowillgiveher

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as follows When the work is de upasfollowsVbentheworkisde deasfollowsVbentheworkisdecreasfollowsVbentheworkisde creasing when the work is increasing creasingwhentheworkisincreasing increasingcreasingwhentheworkisincreasiasingwhentheworkisincreasing when the work is overwhelmingngwhentIleworkisoverwhelming whentIleworkisoverwhelmingwhentIleworkisoverwhelming overwhelming When decreasing because it neverVhendecreasingbecauseitneverVhendecreasingbecauseitnever never needed her as then when increasingneededherasthenwhenincreasing increasing because her efforts are being blessedbecausebeleffortsarebeingblessebecausebeleffortsarebeingblessed blessed when overwhelming because if shedwhenoverwhelmingbecauseifshe whenoverwhelmingbecauseifshe she confessesherselfoyerbornenonewill confesses herself overborne none will confessesherselfoyerbornenonewwilldare take her place The days how illdaretakeherplaceThedayshow daretakeherplaceThedayshowedaretakeherplaceThedayshow however are only twentyfour hours longverareonlytwentfourhours101lg everareonlytwentfourhours101leverareonlytwentfourhours101lg long The work the faithful worker hasgTheworkthefaithfulworkerhas has TheworkthefaithfulworkerhasTheworkthefaithfulworkerhas created is overwhelming createdisoverwhelmingShehasrcreatedisoverwhelmingShehas She hashas raised a mountain and it threatens to toraisedamountainanditthreatenstraisedamountainanditthreatensto aisedamountainanditthreatensto crush her There seems no way butocrushherTl1ereseemsnowaybut crushherTl1ereseemsnowaybutcrushherTl1ereseemsnowaybut but to resign and let some one less abletoresignandletsomeonelessablettoresignandletsomeonelessable able take the threatened placeplace akethethreatenedplace takethethreatenedplactakethethreatenedplace isis another There It-ItThere way It another and and better better way It eThereisanotherandbetterwaJIt ThereisanotherandbetterwaJItisThereisanotherandbetterwaJIt to is divide the of intomountain into work istodividethemountainofworkintistodividethemountainofworkinto todividethemountainofworkinto two little heaps which may be siftedotWlittleheapswhichmaybesifted tWlittleheapswhichmaybesiftedtWlittleheapswhichmaybesifted sifted and assorted in ordinary time and by byandassortedinordinarytimeandby andassortedinordinarytimeandordinary talent many In short in manyordinarytalentInshortinmanybrabyordinarytalentInshortinmany ordinarytalentInshortinmany branches our womens work needs difbranchesourwomensworkneedsdif branchesourwomensworkneedsddif nchesourwomensworkneedsdif fusion The women of the churcheschurches iffusionThewomenofthechurches fusionThewomenofthechurchefusionThewomenofthechurches are of three classesthose who areare areofthreeclassesthosewhoareovsareofthreeclassesthosewhoare areofthreeclassesthosewhoare overworked those who long for workoverworkedthosewholongforwooverworkedthosewholongforwork erworkedthosewholongforwork work and those who will not work BringanthosewhowillnotworkBringthBring rkanthosewhowillnotworkBring anthosewhowillnotworkBring the first two classes together Instead thefirsttwoclassestogetherInsteadthefirsttwoclassestogetherInstead efirsttwoclassestogetherInstead

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the only way of safetyesignationastheonlywaofsafety resignationastheonlywaofsafetresignationastheonlywaofsafety bestyAnofficerhasneerdonethebest officer has never done the best An AnofficerhasneerdonethebesttAnofficerhasneerdonethebest may be done for a work until sheshe tlmtmaybedoneforaworkuntilshe lmtmaybedoneforaworkuntilshe tlmtmaybedoneforaworkuntilsthat can has made it so strong that it canhebasmadeitsostrongthatitcan basmadeitsostrongthatitcandbasmadeitsostrongthatitcan bestand without her This can only be Let by the training of workers Letdone dnEbythetrainingofworkersLetnwdnEbythetrainingofworkersLet nEbythetrainingofworkersLet prac me nwtherefores1Jggestsomeverypranwtherefores1Jggestsomeveryprac therefore suggest some very practherefores1Jggestsomeveryprac becticawaysbywhichworkcrsmaybe ticawaysbywhichworkcrsmaybetrticawaysbywhichworkcrsmaybe tical ways by which workers may be officerstrained and the overburdened officers ainedandtheoverbunlenedotIicers trainedandtheoverbunlenedotIicers relievedof the Central Committees relieved oftheCentralCommitteesrelieedoftheCentralCommitteesrelieed younger Draw together a group of youngerDrawtogetheragroupof3oungerwDrawtogetheragroupof3ounger women womenUndersupervisionletthemwomenUndersupervisionletthem them omenUndersupervisionletthem Under supervision let themincreas atfirstbeivensimpleworkincreas at first be given simple work increasing their responsibility as their knowknow ingtheirresponsibilityastheirknow oneledge of the work increases Let one ledgeoftheworlincreasesLetonledgeoftheworlincreasesLetone receive all the literature from thethe ereceivealltheliteraturefromthe receivealltheliteraturefromtheCreceivealltheliteraturefromthe Union lt her own honice Send to herher Cnionat11erownhOllHStlHltohCnionat11erownhOllHStlHltoher nionat11erownhOllHStlHltoher to all orders for literature to be sent toerallordersforliteraturetoesentt allordersforliteraturetoesentttallordersforliteraturetoesentt 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