MENT AT NEWTON: Rev. J. N. Williams NEEDY NEBRASKA: Rev. J. J. Keeler...... NEWS AND NOTES: Miscellaneous, 41, 71, 100, 101, NICK OF TIME, THE: W. M. Haigh, D.D... NORTH PACIFIC COAST, FACTS ABOUT HOME MISSIONS ON: Rev. J. C. Baker.... NOTES OF A TRIP TO ALASKA, By the Corres- NOTES OF TRAVEL ON THE PACIFIC COAST, By the Corresponding Secretary. Chinese on the Pacific Coast, By the Cor- OBITUARY: Annual Report of Executive Board -57, 92 Receipts.... 175 283 -22, 47, 109, 160,323 News and Notes.21, 44, 75, 157, 270, 294, 320 Treasurer's Report, 21, 46, 77, 111, 138, 158, 223, 295, 321 "RENDER UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE "YOU MUST MAKE THEM CRY 143 Telegraphic dispatches announce the death, by accident, at the burning of a hotel in Pipestone, Minn. of our esteemed missionary there, Rev. A. S. Orcutt. No particulars are at hand as we go to press. It takes England 70 years to double her population, it takes France 160 years to double hers, while the United States has repeatedly doubled its population in 25 years. What a tremendous effort is required to plant and maintain Christian institutions commensurate with such unprecedented growth of population! We regret that the sketch of Alaska could not be completed in this number of the MONTHLY without occupying too much space. In the previous article there was uninten tional omission of the name of Rev. Knut Nelson, our very highly esteemed Swedish. missionary at Tacoma and around Puget Sound. He is doing admirably among his countrymen. At Tacoma they have a chapel of their own in a good location. Rev. W. W. Everts, D.D., has been visiting several schools of the Society for the colored people in the South, and delivering lec tures on important topics to the students. The Presidents of these institutions have written in warm terms of the pleasure and profit which they, as well as the students, have derived from his presence with them. We hope to have some of the Doctor's impressions concerning this work for the MONTHLY. Indeed! "But we respectfully decline to follow the lead of a disputatious person, who plants himself on technicalities and irrelevancies." So says the Examiner, with reference to a controversy which it began, and which it continued, reiterating its erroneous statecorrection thereof, first privately and then in ment after a full, explicit and courteous print. And now, unable to maintain its original position, and unwilling to admit its error, it indulges in this personal fling as a last resort. All of which reminds us of the pettifogger's advice to a young practitioner: When you have a poor case before a jury, abuse the opposing counsel." 66 Mrs. M. M. Gray, of Oakland, California, In November the Society received from a deed of nine lots upon which are ten houses, in the city of Washington, D. C., valued at about $20,000. She thus wisely "becomes her own executor," securing to the Society this large gift, though retaining the income therefrom, as is proper, while she lives. Added to $20,000 previously given, this makes about $40,000 from this generous woman for the work of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. What our general missionaries sometimes do is well illustrated by the following account from Brother Banks, of the Puget Sound As sociation, in his visit to a church in that region. He says: "The seats were just as they were placed in the house by the man who brought them there; the stove stood in the middle of the house, about four feet from the pulpit, so that the sermon was largely delivered to the stove-pipe. I got two of the brethren and worked all day Monday, did not even stop for dinner, and so aroused their ambition that they set about to buy an organ, and I have sent it to them to-day." Zeal in a good cause is contagious, and a zealous General Missionary can accomplish wonders in firing up the people to undertake greater things for Christ. Rev. Dr. Haigh, of Chicago, at the Kansas Baptist Convention said that many people seemed to regard the American Baptist Home Mission Society as an organization "to get something out of," and kindly suggested that it is time for Baptists at the West to think of it as an agency through which they should work for the evangelization of peoples elsewhere than in their own States. So say we all. And so are our brethren in the West beginning to do most heartily. The Kansas Convention adopted a resolution recommending: "That separate collections, so far as the churches are able, be taken for and in the name of the American Baptist Home Mission Society." Such contributions will be sent to Rev. Dr. Haigh, of Chicago, and by him forwarded to the Society. The receipts of the Home Mission Society for its general work during the eight months ending December 1st, are about $25,000 less than for the same period last year. There has been a falling off in legacies of about $10,000. Contributions for the payment of the debt have affected to some extent the regular receipts for current work. Of the amount pledged for the debt, about $107,000 have been paid in and the remainder is expected by January 1st. But the serious question now is how to prevent another debt, as the Board is under obligation to do, except by further retrenchment, which seems to be impossible without most disastrous consequences. We have been compelled to refuse so many worthy applications from mission fields and to let slip so many excellent opportunities, that we already have the heart ache. At a public meeting recently, in a report prepared by the Secretary of a Woman's Home Mission Society, or rather a branch thereof, reference was made to the American Baptist Home Mission Society as "the Men's Society!" Now, we do not think that it is often so characterized, and the good Secretary who prepared the report perhaps did not quite consider the language she used on this occasion. The grand old Home Mission Society is a society of men and women and for men and women and children. It preaches the Gospel not to men only but to more women even than men. Of the nearly 100,000 baptisms in the fifty-four years of its history, probably 60,000 have been women. And from the first, as now, many of its most devoted and generous supporters have been Christian women. Thus it has been, is, and ever ought to be. We say these things as a gentle reminder, so that it may never again be called "the Men's Society." At Washington we visited Wayland Seminary, and found President King meekly wearing the honorary "D.D.," which Colby University properly bestowed upon him at its last Commencement. In a certain sense, "All is quiet on the Potomac," but in another sense there is great activity in Wayland Seminary, which is filled to overflowing by a mature, bright, earnest class of students. Professor Johnson, a thorough teacher, as well as pastor of a strong colored church in Wash ington, is himself an illustration of the educational products of the Institution, when it has good material to work upon. "More room," says President King. "We could double our attendance if we could accommodate them." Beautiful for situation is Wayland Seminary, overlooking the entire city at the south. Be sure and visit it when you go to Washington, and if you go further south, visit other schools also, where you will receive a warm welcome and find much of interest. Significant utterance. The colored people of this country are awakening to the consciousness that they are not Africans, nor aliens, but Americans. Surely if they are not Americans, who are? In industrial matters, as evinced at the gathering of the Knights of Labor in Richmond, their cry is: "Give us Americans a chance!" In political affairs their cry is "Give us Americans a chance!" In educational matters their eager word is: "Give us Americans a chance!" In missionary work for the evangelization of Africa they are saying: "Give us Americans a chance!" This utterance from a representative of the rising colored people of this country is at hopeful sign of the times. cans a chance." "Give us Ameri While at Richmond we visited for the first time the new building in which "Hartshorn Memorial College" is domiciled. Externally it presents an attractive and noble appearance; within, it is exceedingly pleasant, convenient and commodious. It bears no unfavorable comparison with the buildings of Richmond College, in full view about a half RICHMOND THEOLOGICAL SEMI mile southward. Our esteemed brother, Rev. J. C. Hartshorn, of Newton, Mass., has erected a memorial tribute to the memory of his deceased wife, worthy of him who gave, and of her in whose memory it is given. This school for colored girls is pre-eminently a Christian school, and is surely destined to exert a marked influence for good upon the colored people, not only of Richmond and Virginia but of other States from which students come. Rev. L. B. Tefft, Principal, and Miss C. V. Dyer, first assistant-both of them experienced in this work-feel greatly encouraged. But Professor Tefft wants more-more money to finish and furnish rooms; more money for apparatus and books-and he ought to have it. Last summer, at a hotel in Yellowstone Park, we overheard the following conversation between a young colored man and a Scandinavian domestic: NARY. On the 18th of November we visited Rich mond, Va., to attend a meeting of the Trustees of "Richmond Institute" and to reorganize under the amended Charter as the Board of Trustees of "The Richmond Theo logical Seminary." Other members of the Board present were W. A. Cauldwell, Esq., of New York; Rev. A. Dickinson, D.D., Rev. J. S. Holmes, Rev. R. Wells, and Hon. H. K. Ellyson, of Richmond. Four new members of the Board were elected to fill vacancies and to increase the number of Trustees to eleven. These were Rev. Geo. Cooper, D.D., of Richmond; Rev. A. Binga, of Manchester, Va.; G. H. Quincy, Esq., of Boston; and C. J. Pickford, Esq., of Lynn, Mass. The officers of the Board are Rev. H. L. Morehouse, President; Rev. Jas. H. Holmes, Vice-President; Rev. Chas. H. Corey, Treasurer; Rev. Geo. Cooper, Secre He: “I wish you foreigners would stay at tary. Three of the brethren are pastors of home and give us Americans a chance." She: You are no American." He: "I am no American? I was born here; I have always lived here, and I expect to die here. If I ain't an American, who is ?" strong colored churches in or near Richmond; one of whom is also Vice-President of the Board. The school itself is in good condition. New buildings on a new site are greatly needed. The aim is to maintain here a good theological school for advanced colored students for the ministry, a school which shall receive many of its students from other institutions, as theological seminaries elsewhere receive students from academies and colleges. Proper attention will also be given to those who have not enjoyed the advantages of a higher education. sending fifty cents besides, will secure you this elegant engraving. Now let the names come in. The MONTHLY for 1887 will be better, if possible, than ever before. KANSAS. BY REV. D. D. PROPER, GENERAL MISSIONARY. Our State Convention Anniversary meet The Faculty consists of Rev. Chas. H. Corey, D.D., President, and Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Interpretation; Rev. Na-ing is just over, and we have summed up the hum Hines, Professor of Biblical Theology; Rev. Jos. E Jones, Professor of Homiletics, Greek, and Philosophy; and Rev. D. N. Vassar, Professor of Church History and Church Polity. The two latter are colored brethren, highly esteemed, and very capable in their respective departments. The institution has a well-selected library of about 3,000 volumes, and is well equipped for the great work which certainly lies before it. OUR PREMIUMS. Please remember and mention them to your friends. Ist. "Our Country; Its Possible Future And Its Present Crisis." This remarkable book will be given to any present subscriber who renews and obtains three new subscribers at regular rates, fifty cents. 2. "Baptist Home Missions in America." This standard work of 619 pages, 250 pages of which are devoted to a historical survey of the subject, will be sent as a premium to any present subscriber who renews and sends nine other names at regular rates, or $5 for the ten. The book is well worth $2. This record of the year. In this account we have found some things to lament, many things to rejoice over, and from it we have drawn some lessons of profit for the future. This annual meeting was a very enthusiastic gathering, and a delightful spirit of harmony prevailed. The watchword throughout was "forward" with our missionary work. I. Work of the Last Year. The number of missionaries under appointment was 43 in 47 churches, with 2,537 members, 41 Sunday schools, and 2,935 scholars. 631 new members were added to the mission churches. The amount given in these churches to the Lord's cause for all purposes is $22,160.06. Seven churches drop from the mission list, supporting pastors all the time, and some others for a part of the time. Notwithstanding the hard times and lack of help from the Church Edifice Fund, twelve new meeting-houses have been dedicated, four completed, and nine are in process of erection. Forty four new white churches have been organized during the year with 500 members. One of the two colored associations reports 20 new churches, with a membership of 375. 3. "Longfellow in His Library." The present Baptist strength in the State beautiful steel-plate engraving of America's is, one German conference of 12 churches, immortal poet, 24x32 inches, will be sent 658 members; one Swede conference of 16 free to any person sending us the name of a churches, 524 members; two colored asso new subscriber, with renewal of his own sub-ciations with 77 churches, and 4,616 memscription and fifty cents additional for this en-bers, and 22 other associations, making a graving, which is worth several times what it total of 25 associations, about 475 churches, will thus cost our subscribers. Remember, and 25,000 members. The number of Bapyour renewal, getting a new subscriber, and tisms during the year is about 2,000. |