FOREIGN MISSIONS. BY MAHALAH JAY. Read at a conference of Ministers and Workers at Earlhain College, Richmond, Indiana, 8 Mo., 1891. PRICE: SINGRE COPIES 5c ; 30 CTS A DOZEN. $2.00 A HUNDRED. Publishing Association of Friends. Chicago, Ire. 1891. MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHIES. i2mo, 160 pages, fully Illustrated, cloth. Extra, each $.75. We commended this series in our last issue, and a further examination leads us to renew our com¬ mendation, and to urge the placing of this series of Mission¬ ary books in all our Sabbath School libra¬ ries.— Missionary Herald. These are not pans of milk, but little pitchers of cream.con¬ densed from bulkier volumes.—Dr. A. T. Pierson. 1. Griffith , John , Founder of the Hankow Mission, Central China. By William Robson. 2. Robert Moffat , the Missionary Hero of Kuruman. By David J. Deane. 3. James Chalmers , Missionary and Explorer of Raro¬ tonga and New Guinea. By Wm. Robson. 4. William Carey , the Shoemaker who became a Missionary. 5. Robert Morrison , the Pioneer of Chinese Missions. By Wm. J, Townsend. 6. Bishop Patteson , the Martyr of Melanesia. By Jesse Page. 7. Samuel Crowther, the Slave Boy who became Bishop of the Niger. By Jesse Page. 8. Thomas J. Comber , Missionary pioneer of the Con¬ go. By Rev. J. D. Myers. 9. Missionary Ladies in Foreign Lands. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman. 10. John Williams , the Martyr of Polyuesie. By Rev. James J. Ellis. 11. James Calvert , or from Dawn to Dark in Fiji. 12. Henry Martyn. By Jesse Page. Address, PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS 170 Madison St., Chicago, Ii,l. FRIENDS’ WORK IN FOREIGN MISSIONS. A missionary is one sent out on an er- i and. or with, a message. The term is applied specially to those who bear the Gospel message to them who have it not. The first Christian missionaries were sent out, I take it, when Christ sent forth his disciples two and two to preach ‘ ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Christ did not divide his field, which is the world, into “mS&x missions” and s ‘foreign missions,” but he bade his dis, ciples to take it all for him, his final charge to them being, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” We have adopted the terms “home” and “foreign” for our conven¬ ience in describing the location of work, applying the term “foreign missions” to work outside the territorial limits of our own goverment, and “home mis¬ sions to that within. The terms are convenient but I sometimes think it 4 would be better if we did not use them at all, the dividing line between them has little connection with the character of the work, and some seem to think that what is “foreign” does not concern us but belongs to some one else to look after, forgetting the language of Christ’s command, and not considering the mill¬ ions outside of Christian lands to whom we, as much as anybody else, are under obligations to carry the Gospel; and some thinking of “home” as our village, our meeting, our house, narrow down the idea of “home missions” about to do¬ ing for themselves; though here in our own broad land are elements that make it one great mission field. Here are the Indians, Negroes, Mexicans, that belong here: the hundreds of thousands of degraded foreigners yearly landed on our shores, and their descendants; and the vast numbers of poor and friendless, and ignorant and vicious born and grown up in our midst, to all of whom Christians have duties and responsibilities almost overwhelming. Mission work embraces all these and in the full sense of the term 5 is the great work of Christ’s converted children, the work he committed to his church on earth to do. It is humiliating when we think of the centuries passed since the commission was given and no greater advances made in the work; but it is for us to look for¬ ward and not back, and set about our own duty. As servants of Christ we acknowledge our duty of obedience to his commands; as Friends what is the position we occu¬ py? Some, even of our pious and spirit¬ ual members, have said “Friends are not to be expected to go into mission fields as other denominations do. We speak the words of life to others only at the di¬ rect call of the Master, and cannot en¬ gage ourselves for years of service in mission fields.” “We are not a proselyt¬ ing people.” Such objectors may be honest but they are under mistake both as to the teaching and practice of the founders of our branch of the church. They misapply a precious doctrine and testimony of Friends as to the immediate guidance of the Holy Head of the church. 6 Would any of them say that the choice of our life- work and the location of our field of labor should not be as fully un¬ der the direction of the Holy Spirit as the particular words of doctrine or testi¬ mony that should be uttered at any time? Paul not only journeyed from place to place as the Spirit bade him, in his missionary work, but under the same leading abode for months or years in a place as at Corinth and Ephesus. If we so restrict our application of this princi¬ ple how could a George Fox, Daniel Wheeler or Sibyl Jones prepare for long journeys and labors in distant lands in the cause of Christ ? If we are not a proselyting people, as that word is generally applied, we were originally and ought to have remained an evangelizhigpeople. Christ command¬ ed “Go, and make disciples of all the nations.” (R. V.) George Fox exhort¬ ed Friends to “be faithful and spread the truth abroad, and write, speak, and send books abroad into other countries and islands and nations or main land, as ye ^ ^noved.” To Friends in America 7 he wrote, “All Friends everywhere that have Indians or Blacks, you are to preach the Gospel to them, if you be true Chris¬ tians.” .... “And also 3^ou must preach the grace of God to all Blacks and Indians.” .... “You must instruct and teach your Indians and Negroes and all others, how that Christ by the grace of God, tasted death for every man and gave himself a ransom for all men,” . . . and many other such like exhortations. No church was more a missionary church than Friends in their rise. We read of them journey¬ ing and preaching not only in countries nearer England, but in Asia, Africa, America, and the West Indies. It was only when and where they drew away from this broader work to cultivating almost exclusively the little garden of their own denomination, and with intro¬ verted gaze lost sight of the claims of the world outside, that they ceased to be a missionary people. And let their dimin¬ ished membership in those days and places witness to the effect. Eet the division that rent them in twain attest 8 the correctness of Dr. Duff’s oft-quoted declaration, ‘‘The church that ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evan¬ gelical.” Pools of water confined in nar- now limits become dead and pestilence¬ breeding. It is the water in motion, though sometimes it roars, and dashes, and tears, and does damage and needs restraint, that is the living, health-giving water. With the exhortations of George Fox, and the teaching and example of Will¬ iam Penn, and others, before them, Friend^ in America never entirely lost sight of their duty toward the Indians and Negroes. Friends of Baltimore and Philadelphia Y early Meetings began work for special tribes of Indians belore the close of the last century. Baltimore Yearly Meeting had a care over the Shaw- nees in Ohio, in which the yearly meet¬ ings of Ohio and Indiana took part after they were set up, the personal manage¬ ment of the work at length devolving on Indiana, from which Western Yearly Meeting had not then been set off. When, about 1833, the Government re- % 9 moved these Indians to Missouri Terri¬ tory, the then “Far West,” within the limits of the present state of Kansas, Friends followed them to their new home, at that time as remote from civilization and difficult of access as now are many foreign lands, with the present improve¬ ment in modes of travel and communi¬ cation. Their efforts to civilize and ed¬ ucate them, to train them to industrious habits and an upright life, and teach them to read the Bible and reverence the Great Spirit, were not without immedi¬ ate results of blessing to the Indians, and no doubt prepared Ihe way for the suc¬ cess, in many cases, that has attended the later work among them. Friends continued their care of this tribe of In¬ dians for full seventy years, till in the settling up of Kansas the need and the opportunity for their mission there both passed away. Friends’ care for the In dians of our country has never ceased. It is now continued under the “Associat¬ ed Executive Committee’ ’ of all the yearly meetings, in connection with our Government, and by the aid of smaller IO associations and voluntary organizations amongst Friends. Thousands of Indian children have received education, literary and industrial, wholly or partly under their care. In Indian Territory there are now established three monthly meetings of Indian Friends, embracing fifteen meetings for worship, with an Indian membership of nearly four hundred. Fifteen Friends, seven men and eight women, now reside as missionary work¬ ers among them. Much remains to be done and we need to inform ourselves about this work, and gird up our loins still for this service, which belongs espe¬ cially to Christians of America. Also to the colored people Friends have endeavored to be faithful. They did what they could, often at great risk of life and property, in the time of slavery; and after the civil war Friends were for¬ ward among those who hastened to enter the South and establish day-schools and night-schools, Bible-schools and preach¬ ing amongst the “freedmen.” The work of Indiana Yearly Meeting soon centered near Helena, Arkansas, in which place philanthropic and missionary labor has been continued for twenty-eight years. Among the visible results to-day are two meetings for worship among the colored people, one monthly meeting, two re¬ corded ministers and two not regularly recorded, all in active service; a member¬ ship of about two hundred, though not nearly all of them now reside at these meetings; and Southland College and Normal Institute, which received last year as boarders one hundred colored youth and as many more as day students. Some provisions are made for the indus : trial training of these in useful arts and occupations, but the training of teachers has been the end most sought by the school and most widely productive of blessing to the colored people. The teachers trained here are reported to be among the very best obtainable for col¬ ored schools in the South, and through them many thousands of children have already shared indirectly the benefits of Southland Normal Institute. Other yearly meetings, notably Philadelphia and New York, have done more work 12 for the colored people and expended very much more money on them than has Indiana Yearly Meeting. We speak more of its work because it comes closer home to this particular gathering, and needs and deserves our present attention and interest. Foreign Mission work, strictly speak¬ ing, Friends in America have been slow to take up, partly, we believe, because they had such a weight of domestic work among the Indians and Negroes lying at their very doors, but chiefly, I fear, from inexcusable lethargy and indifference to . the subject. Nor were English Friends much earlier to enter foreign fields. Three-quarters of a century had passed after William Carey published his “Inquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen, ’ ’ and other religious denominations began to wake up to their duty, before English Friends put forth any organized effort in the cause, though there were many in¬ stances of individual concern and action at an earlier date. In 1865 the first 13 Friends’ foreign mission association was formed in England. In 1866 their first regular foreign missionary, Rachel Met¬ calf, was sent to India, where she con¬ tinued most faithful in the work till her death two years ago. In 1869, Elkanah and Irene Beard from America joined her, but after about two years were compelled by reason of ill health to return home. The work begun in Benares was after¬ ward removed to Hoshangabad near the Nerbudda where Friends now have a large district containing several millions of people open to them for missionary work. The number of missionaries has been in¬ creased till now sixteen Friends are en¬ gaged in India, and four stations within a compass of one hundred miles are occu¬ pied. In his visit to these missions two years ago, F. Sessions writes that “three things came to him like a revelation; 1. The comparatively large and good work already done in India. 2. The awful¬ ness of heathenism; the unspeakable licentiousness of it. They do religiously crimes which the religious atmosphere of Christian countries restrain the wicked from doing. 3. The open door God has set before us.” In 1867 this English foreign mission association sent Joseph S. Sewell, and two American Friends, Eouis and Sarah Street, to Madagascar. They did not at first set up a separate mission but worked with the missionaries of the Eon don Mis¬ sionary Society. As~the work grew it becam'e necessary to divide the province over which these missionaries had care, into districts, one of which with an area of about two thousand square miles was allotted to Friends. These districts all centered in Antananarivo, the capital of the island. At the time Joseph Sewell took this charge there were six chapels or Christian churches in his district. The number has increased till Friends now have the care of about one hundred and forty churches, and their educational and publishing work have become very ex¬ tensive. They have also joined with the London Missionary Society in carrying- on a medical mission and hospital in another part of the island. Through the visits of our American i5 Friends, Eli and Sibyl Jones, to Syria in 1867-8-9, English Friends became intei- ested in missionary work there, and two missions, and several schools besides in outlying villages, have been established by them. The more extensive one, the Brumana mission on Mt. Eebanon, was opened in 1874. Theophilus Waldmier, a Syrian, a devoted missionary and min¬ ister is at the head of this mission. A Friends’ meeting is established there and both a boys’ and girls’ training home, and a medical mission with a hospital and a dispensary from which as many as six thousand patients a year have re¬ ceived treatment for physical ailments, in giving which they always strive to give some word of counsel or teaching that may reach the soul’s need. The other mission is at Ramallah, ten miles north-west of Jerusalem. It has its train¬ ing home for girls, its medical dispensary, etc., very similar to the Brumana mission, only less extensive. From the first, Friends of New England Yearly Meet¬ ing joined with English Friends in sup¬ porting these missions. About three 16 years ago they divided the field, English Friends taking entire charge of the Bru- mana mission, and New England Friends of that at Ramallah, which they have named the “Eli and Sibyl Jones mission.” The maintainance of this is now the special work of New England Yearly Meeting. Later, English Friends added to their foreign mission work a medical mission among the Armenians in and near Con¬ stantinople, also a mission in Chungking, China, the chief feature of which is its dispensary with the use of the oppor¬ tunities it gives for administering also to spiritual maladies. English Friends have pushed out rapidly in foreign mission work during these twenty-five years since they laid their hands to it, till now their work and their contributions com¬ pare well, in proportion to their numbers, with the work of the larger denomina¬ tions of Christians which have been long¬ er in the field. At the last annual meet¬ ing of their Foreign Mission Association the following summary of their mission¬ aries was given. Sixteen Friends cosi- i7 nected with the mission work in India, twenty-one in Madagascar, four in China, ten in Syria, three in Constantinople and three among the Zulu Kaffirs, making a total of fifty-seven Friends at present at¬ tached to the various missions. Besides these they have ten others who have been accepted by the committee with a pros¬ pect of going out. They feel that with whatever misgivings they at first parted with valued Friends for whom there was a sphere of great usefulness at home, the result has been that the church at home is richer through those that have gone abroad. Its sympathies have been widen¬ ed and extended abroad, and also there has been increased usefulness at home. In reviewing the foreign mission work of American Friends through organized effort we begin with the work in Mexico, for our Friends that went out earlier to India and Madagascar went out under the care and support of English Friends. Twenty years ago this summer Samuel A. Purdie offered himself for missionary work in Mexico, to a small body of mem¬ bers ot Indiana Yearly Meeting who had i8 voluntarily formed themselves into an as¬ sociation to encourage foreign mission work. He was accepted, and in Eleventh Month, 1871, went into Mexico, opening work on a very small scale in the state of Tamaulipa?, which state borders on the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico. Three years later, the work having out¬ grown the resources of this little organi¬ zation, they offered it to their yearly meeting, which accepted it and appointed a foreign mission committee to look after it, which it has continued to do for these nearly seventeen years. This is, I be¬ lieve, the oldest foreign mission organi¬ zation among Friends in America. The work in Mexico, which is now extended nearly the whole length of the state oi Tamaulipas, has included the publishing of a missionary paper from almost the first, also school books and translations of religious books and tracts. As many as a half a million pages annually were printed on the mission presses for several years, and though less is now being done in the publishing department it is still one of the great instrumentalities in car- 19 rying on the work. Six monthly meet¬ ings of Mexican Friends have been es¬ tablished, and frequent meetings are held, and religious instruction given, at a num¬ ber of other points. The members attend¬ ing these meetings at any one time have not, perhaps, reached two hundred, but numbers more have been received into membership and afterwards, in the pros¬ ecution of their business, have removed from the vicinity of the meetings. A larger number still of others are frequent listeners to the preaching of Friends. Six Mexican Friends are duly recorded min¬ isters. Schools have been carried on in con¬ nection with every settled station of the mission. The largest and best organized is the girls’ school at Matamoros which occupies the building which C. G. Hus¬ sey, of Pittsburg, Pa., donated $4,000 to build. It has for several years enrolled from one hundred and fifty to one hun¬ dred and eighty pupils, engaging four and sometimes five teachers. It has a boarding department or training home under the management of a matron from 20 the North, which receives from fifteen to twenty girls and furnishes a home for the teachers. The boys’ school at Matamo- ros has not been so continuous or suc¬ cessful, but with the aid of Philadelphia Women’s Board there has been there the last year a good school enrolling about sixty pupils. The schools at Victoria are next in importance. The boys’ school there is supported by Friends of Balti¬ more Yearly Meeting, the girls’ school by Friends of New York Yearly Meeting. The schools at the other stations are much smaller. In bearing the expense of this mission Indiana Yearly Meeting has received help from all the yearly meetings of Friends, or from members of them, on this conti¬ nent and in England and Ireland, though now, since taking up foreign mission work of their own, several of the yearly meetings no longer contribute to this work. The Foreign Mission Committee oi Indiana Yearly Meeting has paid out annually for the support of this mission, for eight or ten of the last years, sums ranging from $3,000 to $5,000, exclusive 21 of the expense of the printing depart¬ ment. The Women’s Foreign Mission Association of Indiana Yearly Meeting, since its organization in 1883, has raised over $10,000, nearly all of which they have used in Mexico, the girls’ school in Matamoros, Hussey Institute, being their especial charge. Western Yearly Meeting, for awhile working with Indiana in the Mexican work, and being the largest outside con¬ tributor to its funds, afterwards, in 1886, opened a separate mission in the city ot Mexico, and after nearly three years’ work there, removed it to Matehuala, in the state of San Luis Potosi, adjoining Tamaulipas on the southwest. There K. G. Taber and wife and I v illian A. Neiger opened again their mission. Though this is yet, as it were, in its infancy, they seem to have gained a permanent foot¬ hold. A church has been organized which now has about twenty members, and a school of fifteen to eighteen pupils is established. A native evangelist from the Friends of Tamaulipas has also re¬ cently been working in connection with 22 this mission. Other yearly meetings have directed their efforts to different parts, Iowa to Jamaica; Ohio, through her Women’s Board, to China; Kansas has taken Alas¬ ka for her special field; New England, as before mentioned, has charge of the Eli and Sibyl Jones mission in Palestine; North Carolina has supported pupils in the Friends’ mission schools in India and Mexico; Canada has helped other mis¬ sions, but also for three years has sup¬ ported her own missionaries in Japan in connection with the mission of the Phil¬ adelphia Women’s Board. Every yearly meeting has now made some commence • ment in foreign mission work. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Union of Friends in America embraces the associations of women in ten yearly meetings, with an aggregate member¬ ship of about four thousand. About three thousand children are organized into Foreign Mission Bands or Societies. The Boards composing this Union have, since their rise, raised altogether over $100,000. They have either taken the 23 support of a special part of the work already organized in their respective yearly meetings, or have supported scholars in mission schools, or teachers or Bible readers connected with the mis¬ sions; and two of the Boards have opened new missions, those in Japan and China; but their greatest work has, perhaps, been done at home, as may in coming years appear, in stirring up the minds of many to their duty in regard to foreign mission work, and in enlisting and train¬ ing the children for it. The oldest of these associated societies, that of Western Yearly Meeting, is not yet quite ten years old; the youngest, that of New York, three years old. One of the num¬ ber, the Philadelphia Women’s Board, formed eight years ago, though unrecog¬ nized by their yearly meeting, has sup¬ ported a missionary in Mexico, a village school and a Bible reader in Syria, and founded and equipped with suitable buildings and appliances, a flourishing mission in Japan, besides many smaller works. They have done more translat¬ ing and publishing of suitable mission- 24 ary literature, supported more mission work, and raised more money than any other foreign mission organization of Friends in America except Indiana Year¬ ly meeting, and for the time they have been organized they have outstripped her. There are at the present time, if my information is not at iault, twenty-five Friends attached as missionaries to for¬ eign missions of American Friends, besides a considerable number of native workers that also receive support. All their for¬ eign mission work, you will observe, is in its incipiency, is just begun. I thank God that it is begun, and that Friends have at length taken their place in this greatest movement of the nineteenth century. But how shall the work be carried forward, when so many are in¬ different about it? How shall the needed I missionaries and money be obtained? There is not one of our stations the effi¬ ciency of which might not be increased by more funds and better-trained workers; and there are almost unlimited openings to us for more missions and more mis¬ sionaries among the heathen millions of 25 the world. And these are dying, thous¬ ands daily dying, without having heard of salvation through Christ. Their lives consumed in lust and violence and other sins, are passed in bitter bondage to fear, and end * in despair and gloom. They grope in darkness for want of the light we have but neglect to carry to them, saying in act if not in word, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Yet how had it been with us had no missionaries of the Gos¬ pel gone to seek out and teach our wild ancestors in gloomy forests and marshes? ‘ ‘What hast thou that thou didst not re¬ ceive?” Spurgeon has well said, “The question is not whether the heathen can be saved without the Gospel, but whether we can be saved if we do not give it to them.” This subject ought to address itself to just such persons as make up this con¬ ference, the workers of the church. It is for you to teach the people something of the unutterable need of the heathen, their duty toward them and their obliga¬ tion to obey Christ’s great command. It is yours also to teach them how each may 26 do his part. Not every one, not one in a hundred, perhaps, is called to the for¬ eign field, but all can be co-workers therein by their encouragement of others, by their gifts and their prayers, and by % doing the work in the home field when these are called away from it. The Mo¬ ravian church, by far tbe most mission¬ ary church of Christendom, has one missionary out for every sixty church members. How would it startle the thirty thousand of us ease-loving, self¬ providing members of Indiana and West¬ ern Yearly Meetings if suddenly every sixty of us were made responsible for the support of a missionary. If that duty were assigned to every six hundred of us would we think we could carry the bur¬ den? And yet we could easily, and we would grow stronger by doing it if to a willing mind were added right ideas and proper training on this subject. If pa¬ rents were trained to deem it possible and even to desire that some of their children might be honored with Christ’s call to this service, and habituated themselves and their children to this thought—if 27 meetings rejoiced to see some of their members drawn to the foreign field, and were ready to encourage them and aid them in the expense of preparation—for preparation is needed—and hold up their hands with love and prayer, and money when they went to the work, how much better the foreign field would soon be supplied with missionaries than now! And do not think it would take away from the work of building up the church at home and gathering the lost into the fold. It would help that work. “The church that prospers,” says Dr. Moffat, “is the missionary church, and just in proportion as it is missionary will it pros¬ per.” Is it asked how to hold young converts? “Set them to work for others,” is one of the best prescriptions. But do we really believe that this is the Lord’s work, or is there in our hearts unconfessed, perhaps even to ourselves unknown, disbelief of it? How do we read such passages as these—to whom apply them? “Behold, all souls are mine. ” “A light to lighten the Gentiles. ’ ’ “They shall declare my glory among the 25 Gentiles,” or nations. ‘‘For my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.” ‘‘Look unto me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear,” or ‘‘confess.” And of God’s love—‘‘Gave his only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish.” ‘‘Not willing that any should perish.” ‘‘Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” ‘‘How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?” Of Christ’s word— ‘‘Other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also must I bring and they shall hear my voice.” And of our risen Lord’s authority and command¬ ment with promise—‘‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the 29 Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway even to the end of the world.” In the light of these texts, what is the church’s duty? Dr. Arthur T. Pierson answers: “The church has no duty com¬ parable for a moment with the duty of witnessing for its Master and Savior among those who know him not.” Shall we accept the answer? To recapitulate: We have endeavored to show (i) That Friends acknowledge their obligation of obedience to Christ’s command. (2) That they were originally a missionary church. (3) That they suf¬ fered loss from the decay of the mission¬ ary spirit. (4) It has notably revived among them within the last twenty-five years. (5) A brief outline of the foreign mission work carried on by Friends. (6) Its influence is in the direction of revivi¬ fying the body. 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