43 ....... 41 .217, 254 240 215 126 MEXICAN MISSION: Notes, 7, 15, 35, 40, 61, 62, 87 113 260 MORMONISM, IMPRESSIONS OF: Thos. Rogers, RESCUED FROM DEAD FORMALISM: Rev. A. RICHMOND, VA., SCHOOLS: Notes....141, 245, 353 SCANDINAVIAN MISSION: Notes.. Eastern Swedish Conference... Our Danish-Norwegian Work, Rev. O. C. Scandinavians in U. S., Albert Shaw... 14 SHAW UNIVERSITY: Notes...14, 125, 141, 219, 245 138 .98, 353 87 Extract from Annual Report.. A Sunday in Ogden, Rev. Dwight Spencer 136 D.D.. Letting in the Light.. Over my Field, Rev. Dwight Spencer.. 260 94 205 92 WASHINGTON TERRITORY: Notes.64, 120, 241, 267 D.D.... NASHVILLE MEETINGS, THE... NATIONAL AID TO EDUCATION. .125, 218 58 WEST, CONDITION AND MISSIONARY NEEDS Joel Marble, Esq.,.. Rev. J. W. Osborn.. S. B. Page, D. D.. 3 WESTERN NOTES: H. C. Wood, D.D... 31 .277, 334 WEST VIRGINIA: Notes.... 243 83 WISCONSIN Notes....37, 38, 91, 120, 212, 265, 355 THE+BAPTIST HOME÷MISSION: MONTHLY. VOL. X. JANUARY, 1888. EDITORIAL We are confident that the typographical and other changes in the "make-up" of the MONTHLY for 1888 will be regarded with favor by our readers, particularly by those whose vision is not as keen as formerly, and to whom many pages in small-faced type have been objectionable. The use of larger type will scarcely lessen the quantity of reading matter, inasmuch as additional pages are gained for this purpose by throwing the published contributions into three columns instead of two, as heretofore, on each page. Four pages will now contain the receipts that formerly occupied six pages. The thanks of the Society are due to the warm-hearted friends through whose influence the circulation of the MONTHLY has been increased the past year. The banner church of the country in the list of subscribers for the MONTHLY is the Union Avenue Church, of Pittsburgh, Pa. It takes seventy copies. Connected with this fold is a Porter who is specially interested in seeing that the flock is well supplied with proper missionary nourishment, so essential to the highest development of Christian character. We cannot say positively that by his own generosity or by some other method he supplements the subscriptions of the few who cannot No. I. afford to pay fifty cents a year for the MONTHLY, but we have a strong suspicion of this sort. Now let an able and benevolent brother in many other churches take a hint from this, and inform the people that those who would like the MONTHLY for twenty-five cents per annum may obtain it, and he will gladly supply the difference. For a club of ten, at $4.50, this proposition would impose an expense to the giver of only $2.00; and for a club of twenty, at $8.00, it would impose an expense of only $3.50. Will not the friends of our work try this plan in many of our churches? We hope for a large increase in our subscription list. It is constantly growing, but there are thousands more who should take the MONTHLY, and thus know what is being done, and what needs to be done, for the evangelization of this continent. The following are the rates for the MONTHLY for 1888, postage prepaid: Single copies, fifty cents; ten copies, $4.50, or fortyfive cents per copy; twenty copies, $8.00, or forty cents per copy; fifty copies, $18.00, or thirty-six cents per copy. These are club rates, and are to be sent, as a rule, to one address, though to some individuals of a club, if specially desired, the magazine will be sent directly. Who cannot give three or four cents a month to have the MONTHLY, with its interesting contents for the coming year? Several applications from the West were declined or deferred at the December Board meeting for the sole reason that the limits of For the past five months, at an exceedingly trying and laborious period of the year, the Corresponding Secretary has been without the help of such an assistant, though relieved somewhat by the willing, apt and intelligent assistance of the Recording Secretary, Mr. Geo. A. Schulte, whose faithfulness is worthy of all praise. It is with a feeling of relief and our financial ability have already been satisfaction, therefore, that we are permitted reached. The men are on the fields and how to announce that Mr. Marston has entered upon his duties. It seems peculiarly appropriate that so soon after the father's hand was loosed from the work he loved, the hand of the son should be thus applied to service for the same Society. With this introduction, friends of the Society will understand the significance of the new name which will appear in correspondence concerning business matters and in the absence of the Corresponding Secretary of the Society. Utah is hopeful of admission as a State. Mormon money and agents are to be employed to accomplish this result. It is said that the Mormon Church calls for $400,000 to be used in Washington during the next session of Congress. It is the duty of Christian people to make their influence felt by their representatives in Congress. Edgar L. Marston, Esq., of St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed by the Board, Assistant Corresponding Secretary in the place of W. W. Bliss, Esq., deceased. Mr. Marston is the son of the late Rev. S. W. Marston, D.D., District Secretary of the Society for the Southwest. He is a graduate of La Grange College, Mo., and of the Washington University Law School, of St. Louis, and by his legal training and business experience brings to the work qualifications needed in the special line of service which such an assistant is expected to render. As no other Society in our own or in any other denomination embraces three great departments of missionary, church edifice, and educational work, so it is safe to say that no other single organization has so varied and important business interests as those requiring the attention of the Board and the officers of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. A gentleman prominently connected in an official capacity with another benevolent organization of the denomination, and knowing thoroughly its workings, remarked to the Corresponding Secretary at Minneapolis: "I have carefully read over the Report of the Society. I want to say two things: First, I am amazed at the magnitude and extent of the work of the Society. Second, I am amazed that with one Secretary to attend to it, he is not dead or demented." Though the Church Edifice department is chiefly under the supervision of Dr. Pope, yet doesn't appear to have much effect among an assistant for the general work is a necessity. I the peace-loving Baptists of West Virginia When in the Mormon Tabernacle, in the fall of 1886, we heard the representative of the Mormon Church, who had been lobbying at Washington the previous session of Congress, boast that through Mormon influence further unfriendly legislation had been blocked. If Utah shall be admitted as a State, what is to prevent amendments to her Constitution that shall tolerate polygamy, and with Mormon officers of the law what polygamist will be brought to justice? The people of this country would negative the proposition to admit Utah by an overwhelming vote. Let not the politicians try it. Somehow "the old Confederate yell" |