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1832. The American Baptist Homę Mission Socięty. 1895.

The General Missionary Organization of American Baptists for the Evangelization
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VICE-PRESIDENTS.

E. M. VAN DUZEE, Esq., Minn.
STEPHEN GREENE, Esq., Mass.

TREAS.-J. GREENWOOD SNELLING, Esq.. N. Y.

JOSEPH BROKAW, Esq., N. Y.

AUDITORS.- CHARLES B. CANFIELD, Esq., N. Y.

COR. SECRETARY.-REV. THOMAS J. MORGAN, LL.D., N. Y.
ASSISTANT COR. SEC.-REV, ALEX. TURNBULL, N. J.
FIELD SECRETARY.-H. L. MOREHOUSE, D.D., N. Ÿ.
REC. SECRETARY.-A. S. HOBART, D.D., N. Y.

CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD.

E. T. HISCOX, D.D.

In charge of Church Edifice Work,
Superintendent of Education,

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF MISSIONS.
Mississippi Division.—Ill., Wis., Minn., N. D., S. D.,
Ks., Neb. and Iowa.-Rev. W. M. Haigh, D.D., 177
Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Rocky Mountain Division.-Ok., Wy., Ida., Mont.,
Ore., Wash., Col., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah, Cal.-
Rev. H. C. Woods, D.D., Colorado Springs, Col.
Superintendent Missouri River District.-Rev. N.
B. Rairden, Y. M. C. A. B'ld'g, Omaha, Neb.
Superintendent Red River District.-Rev. O. A.
Williams, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.

The French in N. E.-Rev. J. N. Williams, 615 Broad St.,
Providence, R. I.

The Germans.-Rev. G. A. Schulte, 3201⁄2 Webster Ave.,
Jersey City Heights, N. J.

The Chinese.-Dea. H. F. Norris, 11011⁄2 Clay St., San
Francisco, Cal.

The Indians.-Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. J.
S. Murrow, Atoka, I. T.

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South Dakota.-Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, D.D., Huron.
Nebraska.-Rev. A. W. Clark, Omaha.

Kansas.-E. B. Meredith, Topeka.

Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. L. J. Dyke,
Lawrence, KS.

Montana and S. Idaho.-Rev. L. G. Clark, Helena.
Wyoming.-

Colorado and New Mexico.-Rev. Geo. P.Wright, Denver.
Washington.-Rev. D. D. Proper, 1211 Washington St.,
Seattle.

Oregon.-Rev. Gilman Parker, 162 Second St., Portland.
Northern California.-Rev. W. H. Latourette, Oakland.
S. Cal. and Arizona -Rev. W. W. Tinker, Los Angeles.
City of Mexico.-Rev. W. H. Sloan, Calle Norte 10, Num.
515, City of Mexico.
Northern Mexico.-Rev. Thomas M. Westrup, Monterey.

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SECRETARY OF BOARD.
PARKER C. PALMER.'

D. W. PERKINS, ESQ.
M. MACVICAR, LL.D., N. Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

1. N. E. District.-Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Ct.-
Rev. F. T. Hazlewood, D.D., 2A Beacon St., Boston, Mass.
2. N. Y. District.-N. Y. and Northern N. J. Rev.
Halsey Moore, D.D., 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.
3. Philadelphia District.-Southern N. J., Pa., Del.
and D. C.-E. B. Palmer, D.D., 1420 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

4. Lake District.-Mich. and Ohio. Rev. E. H. E.
Jameson, D.D., 106 Smith Ave., Detroit, Mich.

5. Wabash District.-Ind. and South Ill.-Rev. Dwight Spencer, Lock Box 106, Indianapolis, Ind.

6. Chicago District.-N. Ill. and Wis.-Rev. W. M. Haigh, D.D., 177 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

7. Red River District.-Minn., N. D. and S. D.-Rev. O. A. Williams, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.

8. Missouri River District.-Iowa, Nebr. and Ks., Okla., Ind. Ter.-Rev. N. B. Rairden Omaha, Neb.

GENERAL MISSIONARIES (Colored).

Alabama.

Arkansas. Rev. J. H. Hoke, Little Rock.
Florida.-Rev. W. A. Wilkerson, Flemington.
Kentucky. Rev. P. H. Kennedy, Henderson.
Louisiana.-Rev. H. B. N. Brown, Alexandria,
Missouri.-Rev. H. N. Bouey, Springfield.
North Carolina.-Rev. A. B. Vincent, Raleigh.
South Carolina.-Rev. E. R. Roberts, Florence.
Tennessee.-Rev. W. H. C. Stokes, Covington.
Texas. Rev. F. G. Davis, Dallas.

LEGACIES.

Form of Bequest to the Society.-"I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in New York in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of.... ......for the general purposes of said Society."

Be very careful to comply with the requirements of the law in making your will. A BETTER WAY. The Society will receive your money now, giving a bond for the payment to you of an annuity during life, if you so desire it.

Communications relating to the work and general affairs of the Society, should be addressed to Rev. T. J. Mergan, Corresponding Secretary.

In the transmission of funds, all Checks, Drafts and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the order of the "American Baptist Home Mission Society,” and addressed to J. G. Snelling, Treasurer. Contributions may also be sent to the several District Secretaries.

Headquarters of the Society: CONSTABLE B’LD'G, 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.

THE BAPTIST

HOME * MISSION * MONTHLY.

VOL. XVII.

REMOVAL.

MARCH, 1895.

EDITORIAL. *

For more than sixty years the Rooms of The American Baptist Home Mission Society have been in the vicinity of the General Post Office in New York City. When the Society was organized in 1832, New York City was a mere village compared with its present size and extent. The movement "up town," which has been in progress almost since the city was founded, has now gone so far that the center of population is far north of the present location of the Home Mission Rooms. Business has followed the tide of population. Within a recent period the great missionary and benevolent organizations have moved far up town, very few, if any, of them remaining as far down as the Home Mission Society.

In order to be as fully in touch with the city in its various interests now as the Home Mission Society was fifty years ago, a change of location is absolutely essential. After a very careful consideration of the question, it has been decided by the Board of Managers to remove "The Rooms" from Temple Court to the Constable Building, on the corner of Eighteenth Street and Fifth Avenue. This is a new, modern office building, very conveniently located, very attractive in appearance, and in close vicinity with the great societies of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, and Episcopal Churches, three blocks from the building Occupied by the Publication Society, Baptist City Mission Society, and Baptist Pastors' Conference.

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The new Rooms, while not equal to the corresponding rooms occupied by the officers of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopalian Missionary Societies, and while not fully meeting our necessities, are, however, very much superior in location, light, ventilation, capacity and arrangement to those now occupied.

A most cordial invitation is hereby extended to any and all friends of Home Missions to visit us in our new quarters. There is an entrance at 111 Fifth Avenue, and another entrance on Eighteenth Street. The rooms will be on the, fifth floor, easily accessible. Friends, give us a call.

All letters and communications should be addressed to The American Baptist Home Mission Society, Constable Building, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

CHAPEL DAY PROGRAMME. Samples of our Chapel Day Programme are now in the hands of a large number of Sunday-school Superintendents all over the country, and we hope the decision to use them will be universal. We are satisfied that the exercise will be both attractive and profitable to the school undertaking it, and with a little enthusiasm thrown into it, it may be made the means of interesting a large number of people in this important work of our Society, and raising a large amount of money for its prosecution. If for any reason the programme cannot be used, we would earnestly ask that superin

tendents or pastors will present the claims of our Church Edifice work on that day, and at least take a collection for this purpose. If, in any case, the programme should appear to be too elaborate for the use of the school, it will be very easy to select portions from it for use which will furnish a pleasing and helpful exercise.

THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. Watchman, what of the night? It is dark-very dark. The darkness deepens; the shadow of a debt greater than we expected hangs over our pathway. These are serious times at the Rooms. We are

groping for the light. Soon appropriations for next year must be made. Last year we tried the painful process of retrenchment. Unless extraordinary offerings are made for the Society's work in the next thirty days, further retrenchment will be inevitable.

What is the sum required for the month of March in order that the Society may close the year without debt? About $230,000! What was received in March, 1894 $86,137. Unless receipts exceed those of last year, we shall be confronted with a debt of $144,000 thirty days hence. This will be an increase of $43,000 to the debt of one year ago. For the sake of the work our hearts are filled with anxiety. Must some of our schools in the South and Indian Territory be closed? Must the West, needing our aid more than ever in these trying times, receive less rather than more? Must we recall some of our missionaries from Mexico? Brethren, what shall we do? What is to be done to relieve the situation must be done quickly. Reader, can you not make a special offering to the Society before April first?

THE BAPTISTS AND INDIAN

SCHOOLS.

About 1870, General U. S. Grant, then President, inaugurated what was termed "The Peace Policy" in dealing with the Indians an effort to substitute justice,

love and religion, for wrong, the sword and politics in the solution of the Indian problem. This general policy has continued, is operative to-day, and is slowly but surely working out its intended results; by implication it includes the evangelization, education, civilization and assimilation of the individual Indians, whereby they cease to be savages, enemies, barbarians, and become intelligent, self-supporting, loyal American citizens.

As a part of this general scheme, a plan was devised of placing the Indian agencies under the special watch-care and supervision of different religious bodies. In pursuance of this scheme, the Union Agency in the Indian Territory, embracing the five so-called civilized tribes, was assigned to the Baptists, who were authorized and requested to nominate to the Indian Office an agent, and, as I believe, other employees, who were to receive their salaries, of course, from the public treasury. This plan was accepted by the various churches, and for a time worked apparently well, but, eventually, broke down and was abandoned.

There were in this agency four or five thousand negroes, formerly held as slaves by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, but who, by the exigencies of the war, became free. They were not adopted by the Indians, consequently had no property rights with them; they had no property of their own, and, consequently, they were about as degraded, helpless and hopeless a set of waifs as could anywhere be found. Their pitiable condition was brought to the attention of the corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the late Dr. S. S. Cutting, and he called the attention of the Interior Department to the matter. The result of the correspondence was a request from the Indian Office that the Home Mission Society, representing the Baptists, to whom the oversight of the Indians of the Union Agency had been assigned, furnish teachers for these people, who were to be paid from the national treasury; accordingly, a few public day schools-six or eight-were established

it appears that a few pupils were admitted into one boarding-school for two years) and carried on, providing expressly for their secular education; the Society's distinctively missionary work was prosecuted independently of this, and at its own charges.

When Dr. H. L. Morehouse became corresponding secretary, he found in operation the plan inaugurated by his predecessor, Dr. Cutting; the scheme was abandoned, however, in 1884, having been in practical operation, according to the statement of the Indian Office, four years; the amount of money paid by the government for this secular education, superintended by the Baptists, for these helpless negroes, amounted to $8,075. A full account of the matter was published by the Society at the time. in its annual report for 1878, page 39; in the jubilee volume, page 412; in the HOME MISSION MONTHLY for 1878, page 44.

Dr. Graves was a man of noble mien, dignified, yet always most courteous and of a genial nature; an able preacher and excellent pastor, who made troops of friends; a successful educator, and deeply interested in the organized missionary and educational activities of the denomination. He had considerable poetical talent, and was a frequent contributor to the religious press. Thus his influence, first and last, was widely felt.

He became deeply interested in work for the colored people, especially in the training of students for the ministry. While teaching at Atlanta he prepared and published his "Outline Studies in Theology," a

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REV. SAMUEL GRAVES, D.D.

It becomes our sad duty to chronicle the death of Rev. Samuel Graves, D.D., at Grand Rapids, Mich., January 17th, 1895, in his seventy-fifth year. For forty-six years, since his ordination as pastor of the Baptist Church at Ann Arbor, Mich., he has been widely known and highly esteemed by his brethren in the East, the West, and the South. He was a native of New Hampshire; had some business experience as a youth in Vermont; in his twentieth year entered the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institute (now Colgate University), graduating from the college in 1844, and from the Theological Seminary in 1846; was tutor for two years in the institution; pastor for three years at Ann Arbor, Mich.; Professor of Greek and of Systematic Theology in Kalamazoo College, Mich., eight years; pastor at Norwich, Conn., ten years, and at Grand Rapids, Mich., fifteen years, and President and Instructor in the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, Ga., for ten years, retiring from the latter position at the close of the last academic year.

REV. SAMUEL GRAVES, D D.

small volume well adapted to the needs of the average student for the ministry. By many of the colored people of the South, often recipients of his almost paternal kindness, his loss will be deeply felt.

And so, like a shock of corn fully ripe, with mental faculties unimpaired, after sixtyfour years of Christian service, beloved by all who knew him, he has entered into rest. He married a sister of Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Baldwin, of New York, who will have the warmest sympathy of many in her great bereavement.

SELF-HELP.

The Home Mission Society spends millions of dollars in helping churches to erect meeting-houses and support their pastors. It does this, however, with the distinct understanding that what it gives is only in the nature of help. It does not undertake either to build a meeting-house or to support a pastor at its own charges; the local church, the individual church, the live, progressive church, the self-reliant church, the church with too much self-respect to ask for a dollar from any source which it is able to supply from its own resources, the missionary church-this is the ideal constantly in mind when appropriations are made for its help. A church unwilling to help itself to the full extent of its ability is unworthy of being helped; a church without self-reliance, without a spirit of independence, without self-sacrificing zeal, is destined to perish, and excessive help bestowed upon it hastens the period of its demise. Help extended to feeble churches is always given with the expectation that it shall be discontinued at the earliest practicable day, and that the church, instead of relying upon the support of the Home Mission Society, must, from the beginning, learn to rely upon its own support. Any help given by the Home Mission Society which does not stimulate the spirit of self-support is unworthily given. Churches which have received assistance through the Home Mission Society are expected to show their appreciation of the kindness extended to them by their brethren, by themselves, in turn, contributing according to their means toward the assistance of other feeble churches struggling for existence. Gratitude for help received is best expressed by help given to others in the same circumstances.

The Home Mission Society has expended millions of dollars in missionary and educational work among the negroes, with a view of helping them to a point where they can help themselves. It is not contemplated that the Home Mission Society shall bear alone the great

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burden of negro education; the negroes themselves must chiefly bear this burden. They are the ones who are to be especially profited by the schools. The development of their manhood and womanhood, their emancipation from ignorance and superstition, their elevation in the scale of civilization, the increase in their material resources, the enlargement of their sphere of activities, the multiplicity of their advantages and enjoyments, are the direct outgrowths of the Christian schools established and maintained for them, at large expense and great sacrifice, by their friends in the North. The great primal purpose of this outlay is to make it possible for the negroes to care for themselves; to develop within them the spirit and the ability of Unless these schools have that result, they are failures; if the money given by the North for negro education simply stimulates the appetites of the negroes for more help, and develops among them a clamor for more and more assistance, then the schools are to that degree harmful to them; a little help, wisely given at an opportune time, which enables a young man or a young woman to prosecute a course of study, and thus acquire the ability to earn an honest living, ought to be the turning point in a life of independence and honorable self-support. If, instead of this, it creates tastes for a style of living for which the individual is unable or unwilling to pay the price, and develops a spirit of dependence, of fawning, of beggary, then it is help unwisely given.

All negroes-men or women-who have been benefited in any degree by the schools established for them by their friends, should appreciate how great a boon has been bestowed upon them, should cherish a lively sense of gratitude, should be provoked to an earnest endeavor to support themselves by their own earnings, and should be animated by an earnest desire to pay their debt of gratitude by helping others to gain an education. We believe that it is wise for friends of the

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