History of the missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...

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HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

Preface

The following history of missions in the Methodist Episcopal Church commences, properly, with the organization of the Missionary Society, in the year 1816; and it has been the constant and careful aim of the author to chronicle every important fact, in connection with the operations of said Society, from that period to the present time. The materials upon which he has mostly relied in the compilation of the work, were found in the annual reports and other official documents within his reach.

His chief indebtedness, however, is to the "History of Missions, by Dr. Bangs," published in 1832, and now out of print ; and also to " The History of the Methodist Episcopal Church," by the same author. The author has enjoyed personal interviews with Dr. Bangs, and received from him many valuable suggestions and much interesting information, in regard to the work. In a communication received from him, in relation to the work, he adds : " That your pen may be guided by truth and love, is the prayer of "Yours, affectionately, N. Bangs."

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Introduction

The following work, on the history of the Methodist Episcopal Missions, is the first ever written on the subject; and it is intended to furnish the public with a complete and arranged collection of all the facts of that history, from the beginning to the date of the production.

This is the earliest period, perhaps, when a history could have been judiciously undertaken; for a work, an enterprise of any kind, has to accomplish something, before a record can be made of its achievements. At this time it can be said, that the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church has done that which is worthy of being noted; and, therefore, in writing out the progress of its labors and successes, the author has a right to expect the attention of the public will be directed to his performance.

Not the subject alone, however, but the manner in which it has been treated, calls for notice; for Mr. Strickland has certainly executed his task in a very praiseworthy manner. He begins with the organization of the Society, and closes with its latest operations. He divides his subject in a most natural and perspicuous manner, giving first a chapter on the events and ceremonies of the organization, next a chapter on domestic missions, then another on auxiliaries, which completes the homeward relations of his subject.

Then, under the leading idea of its foreign labors, he furnishes us successively with a series of chapters on the missions, respectively, to the Indians of the States, to Africa, to Oregon, to South America, to Texas, to the Germans, and to China. The work among the Indians of our

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older states, as well as that among the Germans and Oregonians, should have been classed, the reader might think, under the head of domestic missions ; but these classes of people were regarded by the author, in their relations to his subject, as foreigners, and have been treated by him accordingly. The eleventh is an important chapter, on missionaries, wherein many invaluable suggestions are thrown out, which will be read with great interest. The twelfth chapter is an appeal in behalf of missions, in which the author has addressed himself to the public with a peculiar force and eloquence, which must stir the hearts of his readers most profoundly. The work closes with an appendix, which contains a large amount of very important matter, compiled from public documents, missionary addresses, and similar sources, in a way to add greatly to the interest and usefulness of the volume.

Here, then, in the following pages, the Christian reader has a pretty full account of what the Methodist Episcopal Church has done for the evangelization of the world ; the Christian minister, particularly the Methodist minister, a very interesting memorial of the religious enterprise of a young but important evangelical association; and all missionary platform speakers, so numerous and so useful a division of the worthy laborers in the vineyard of our Master, all the materials necessary for the preparation of their speeches.

But this work will perform another invaluable service. By bringing the successes of the different branches of our missionary operations, at home and abroad, into the same field of vision, it will enable the reader to form an enlightened judgment respecting the comparative promise of these respective branches. He will see, for example, whether a given amount of labor and money will do more good in Oregon than in Africa — among our tribes of Indians, or in foreign countries. It is true, the more recent stations, such

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as that in China, have not been long enough in existence to indicate clearly what they will be; but respecting the older ones, a good opinion can be formed from a wise use of the contents of this volume. Our people will, therefore, no longer be under the necessity of hesitating as to the direction where they may most profitably bestow their charities; but, by reading this book, and carefully comparing one field of labor with another, and that for quite a series of years, they can tell, with almost a mathematical certainty, where their means will be likely to do the greatest amount of service.

This volume will, also, without doubt, increase the popular interest in our missionary operations ; for the reader will see clearly, that the money already spent has not gone for nothing. For only about thirty years has the Society had existence ; and lo ! what results have followed its exertions ! How many feeble societies it has sustained at home, among our native population, until they were able to live and flourish without assistance! How many souls have been converted, what noble results in civilization have been realized, among the red savages of our own vast territories! What a voice it has sent to the shores of bleeding and oppressed Africa, where the pillars of a young republic have been laid, by the hands of our own missionaries, under the most encouraging auspices, from which religion and civil liberty may ultimately spread over that dark continent ! What a hand of kindness it has reached out to all classes of immigrants, especially to the Germans, who, amidst the calculating selfishness of the great majority of our countrymen, have failed to find that warm friendship which they had expected, but who have been led, by the noble-spirited German missionaries, acting under the direction of this Society, from the empty abstractions of neology, rationalism, and infidelity, to the substantial and glorious realities of true religion !

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Patriots and statesmen, too, have an interest — an interest they should not fail to realize — in the book now before us. If the history of all past ages brings us any truth established beyond a question, that truth is, that the Christian religion and civil liberty always go together. The institutions of our own country were founded upon the doctrines of the Bible; and the personal freedom and happiness of the inhabitants of every land are measured by the degree of influence which that inspired volume has exerted. If there is any hope for the future political disinthrallment of all enslaved and oppressed nations, it lies in the possibility of bringing their citizens under the daily action of the Bible, by giving ultimate success to the missionary operations now at work, or hereafter to be put in motion, in all countries.

This volume is, therefore, heartily commended to the patronage and favor of all Christian people, whether ministers or members, and to all Americans, who have the good of their country, of true religion, and of sound liberty at heart, with the confident expectation that it will be welcome. B. F. Tefft.

Cincinnati, October 30, 1849.

Chapter I

ORGANIZATION OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP THE METH- ODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Design of the Author — Act of Justice to Dr. Bangs — His Early Connection with the Society — His Labors — Revs. John and Charles Wesley's Labors in the Southern Colonies of this Country — Mr. Wesley's First Missionaries to this Country — Character of Methodism — The Labors of the First Missionaries — General Harrison's Opinion of — The Identity of Methodism and Missions — Importance of the Organization of a Missionary Society — Reasons for such Organization given — Meeting of the Ministers and Book Agents in the City of New York, called to take the Matter under Advisement — Resolution in regard to the Expediency of the Measure — Committee appointed to draft a Constitution — That of Dr. Bangs accepted unanimously — A Second Meeting called — Addresses by Rev. Messrs. Garrettson and Soule — Constitution adopted, Article by Article — Constitution — Its Connection with the Bible Cause — Organization of a Methodist Bible Society — Its Dissolution in 1836 — American Bible Society — An important Scrap of History — Reasons for the Organization of a separate Bible Society — Co-operation of the Church with the American Bible Society — Officers and Managers first elected — Dr. Bangs requested to prepare an Address and Circular to Members of the Church, and the several Annual Conferences — The Address — Prospects of the Society — Letter from Bishop M'Kendree — Action of the General Conference in relation to the Society — Report of the Committee — Dr. Emory — Extract from Report — Action in relation to the Constitution — The word Bible stricken out of its Title — Amendments of the Constitution — Revised Constitution — By-Laws of the Board of Managers — Act of Incorporation and Revised Statutes — Mission House and Property of the Society Page 21

Chapter II. Domestic Missions

Care for the Native Population of our own Country — First Object of the Society — Foreign Population — Germans — Regard had to order of Time when Domestic Missions were established — New

Orleans Mission — Its Success — Missionary District in the bounds of the Tennessee Conference — Nine Missionaries sent — Formation of Circuits — York and Long Island Mission — New Field — Highland Mission — Revival of Religion — Hampshire Mission — Formed into a Circuit — Red Hook Mission — Unsuccessful — Abandoned — Harlaem Mission — Prosperity — Taken into the Regular Work — Hammonasset Mission — Newbury port and Gloucester — Piscataquis — Pensacola and Mobile — Early — Florida — Tallahassee — Holmes Valley — St. Augustine — St. Johns — Mission to the Welsh People in New York — St. Mary's — St. Clair — St. Joseph's — Defiance — Providence — Fox River — Logansport — Galena — Salt River — Gasconade — West Prairie — Brownsville — Iroquois — Jonesboro — Rock Island — Des Plaines — Fort Wayne — Grand Prairie — Chicago — Fort Clark — Carroll — Randolph — Lee — South Bend — West Point — Maccoupin — Peoria — Fort Edwards — Henderson River — Blue River — Upper Wabash — Kalamazoo — La Port — James' Fork — Alachua — La Fourche — Lake Bolivar — Big Sand — Braddock's Field — Mattanawcook — Hatton — Savannah — Pon Pon — South Santee — North Santee — Cooper River — Wateree — Upper Santee — Wacamaw Neck — Catawba — Bristol — Laurel Hill — Conemaugh — Cambria — Sinemahoning — Smethport — St. Mary's — FortFinley — Cumberland — King's River — White River — Ambarrass — Ottawa — Golconda — Dubuque — Tippecanoe — Eel River — Mississinewa — Clinch River — Mountain — Centerville — Paint Creek— Yala Busha — Tallahatche — Walker — Baldwin — Blakely — Catahooche — Oconee — Monroe — Upson — Vans Valley — Chistatee — Conesauga — Nassau — Atamha — Irwin — Portsmouth — Ocracoke— Craig's Creek— Matawoman— South Fork— Somerset — Bergen Neck — Maunch Chunck — Worcester — East and South Hampton — Guilford— Farmington— Dresden— Watson— Brookville— Ridgeway — Logan — Nicolas — Plymouth — Calhoun — G ilead — Highland — Kentucky — Salem — Vandalia — Flat Branch — Bureau — Fort Edward — Rock Island — Buffalo Grove — Troy — Otter Creek — Port Creek — Pine Creek — Higwasse — Holly Fork — Paint Rock — Bayou Beouf— W ilkinson — West Feliciana — Lafayette — Nanny — Warrior — Canebrake — Clayton — Lime Creek — Uchee — Broad River — Cassville — Cumming — Second Creek — Turtle Fork — Rotterdam — Java — Brandersville — Hughes' River — Sandy River — Ripley — Port Washington — Kenton — Cold Water — Grand River — La Pecor — Saganaw — Litchfield — Mount Pleasant — Barboursville — Manchester — Pikesville— Marion— Pecan— Knoxville— Iowa— Milwaukie— Deep River — Rome — Otter Creek — Cole Creek — Lebanon — Texas — Cherokee Hill — Brandy wine — German — Durham — Fort Lee — Methe wen — Megallaway — Haverhill — Kinderhook — Schodack — Elk River — Lawrenceburg — Shippenville; and others, as they were established from year to year — Statistics for the First Ten Years — Second —

Third — Contributions always equal to Demands upon the Treasury — Swedish Mission in the City of New York Page 52

Chapter III. Auxiliaries

Importance of — Managers made provision for Organization of at an early day — Constitution of an Auxiliary — First Auxiliary recognized by the Parent Society — Recommendation of the Bishops — Conference Auxiliaries — Increased Interest awakened — Removal of Prejudices — Advantage of Simple Machinery — Benevolent Institutions of the Church — Church a Unit in her Operations — Action of the Annual Conferences — Conference Anniversaries — Zeal of Ministers in the Missionary Cause — Branch Associations — Female — Young Men's — Juvenile 67

Chapter IV. Mission Among The Indians

First Mission projected by the Board — Number of Indian Tribes — Dialects — Number of Indians in the States and Territories — Remarks in regard to the Indian Race — Their Claims upon Christians of this Country — Efforts to Evangelize them — First Missionary to the Wyandotts — His Remarkable Call — Results of his Labors — Assistance rendered him — Mission adopted by the Ohio Annual Conference — Description of the National Reserve of the Wyandotts — Mission School supported by the Government — Missionaries Visit the Indians at Fort Maiden, in Canada — Mission established there — Number of Native Missionary Stations in Upper Canada — These Missions transferred to the Canada Conference — Mission to Shawnees on Huron River — Removal of the Wyandotts west of the Mississippi — Terms of Treaty with the Government — Separation of the Southern Conferences from the Jurisdiction of the Methodist Episcopal Church — Plan of Separation — Missionary sent to the Wyandotts, at their Request, from the Ohio Conference — His Return — Mission to the Creek Indians — difficulties — Result — Success of the Mission — Mission to the Mohawks on Grand River — Revival — Mississauga Indians — Interesting Incident — Mission to the Cherokee Indians — Conversions — Great Success of the Mission — Circuits Formed — The Gospel indispensable to the Civilization of the Indian — Unhappy Collision — Removal of the Cherokees — Establishment of a Second Cherokee Mission — Revival in East Cherokee mission — Indian Mission Conference — Bible Society among the Cherokees — Discipline translated into the Cherokee Language — Boundaries of the Indian Mission Conference — Mission to the Choctaws — Condition of the Tribe — Camp Meeting — Conversions and Accessions — Six Hundred added to the Church —

Proposition of the Government to the Choctaws — Determined on Removal — Choctaw Mission West established — Translation of tht Scriptures and Hymns into the Choctaw Language — Statistics of the Mission — Included in the Arkansas Conference- — Extent of the Mission — Act of the General Council in regard to Institutions of Learning — Fort Coffee Academy — Mission to the Potawatamies — Success — Abandoned in 1830 — Mission to the Oneida Indians — Intemperance among them — Visited by a Converted Young Mohawk from Upper Canada — Result of his Labors — Revival among the Onondagas — Oneida Mission West — Menominee and Kewawenon Indians — Other Missions in the Green Bay District — Interrogatories sent to all the Missionaries in regard to Statistics of the Missions — Mission to the Shawnee and Kansas Indians — Revival — Indian Manual Labor School — Kansas District — Mission to the Iroquois — An Indian Prophet — No Knowledge of the True God without a Divine Revelation — Kickapoo Mission- — Peori — Saganaw — Mission to the Sioux, Winnebagoes, and Chippeways — Mission Schools — Seneca and Kayooga Indians — Revival at Koontown, Oothcalooga, and Valley Town — Fon du Lac Mission — Other Missions — Recapitulation of Missions — Bishop Janes P a g e 70

Chapter V. Mission To Africa

Colony of Liberia on the Western Coast of Africa — Origin of the Colony — Young Men's Missionary Society of New York City — General Conference sent a Missionary in 1832 — Cordial Reception of by the Governor and Citizens — His Spirit— Purchases the Premises of the Swiss Missionaries — At a Convention was received and accredited as a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church — Articles of Agreement — Other Churches resigned themselves to the Care of the Missionary — Subscription of to Articles of Religion and Temporal Economy of the Church — Camp Meeting at Caldwell — Plans for Establishing Missions at Various Points — Sabbath School — Other Missionaries sent Out — Death of Cox, the First Missionary — Successors — Sunday School Association Formed — Annual Conference Organized — Temperance Society — Missionaries attacked with African Fever — Deaths — Instance of Female Heroism — Return of Missionaries to United States — Appointment of a Successor in the Superintendency of the Mission — Assistants- — Visited the Churches at Millsburg and Caldwell— Established a School at New Georgia — Edina and Bassa Cove — Statistics of the Mission — Returned to the United States for the Recovery of his Health — Time occupied in holding Missionary Meetings — Returned with Reinforcement to Liberia — Cheering Report — Native Africans Converted— Numbers in Society — Day and Sabbath Schools — Melancholy Catastrophe — Deaths of Colored Preachers — Missions in the Condo Country — Bushrod Island — Missionary Physician — Teachers Engaged — Revival — Native Africans — Statistics — New Mission Stations — English and Classical Academy — Additional Reinforcement — Principal of the Liberia Academy — Publication of Africa's Luminary — Manual Labor School at White Plains — School at Heddington — Robertsville — King's Sons Educated — Death of Principal of the Academy — Another Supply of Missionaries — Gratifying Statistics — Deputations from Distant Tribes — Openings for Missions among other Tribes — Interesting Death of a Native Preacher — Conversion of Natives — Extensive Travels of Superintendent on Foot — Missionaries appointed to New Stations — Visit to Cape Palmas and Towns in the Interior — Missions Established — Difficulty of Obtaining Missionaries — Report of the Superintendent after his Return to the United States — Various Items of the Report — Successor Appointed — Principal of Seminary — Capture of the Slaver Pons — Visit to the Vessel — A Scene of Horror — Description of — Children of the Slaver provided for — Return of Missionaries — Conference Seminary — Death of the Principal — Mission Prosperous — Liberia an Independent Republic — Return of Superintendent with his Family to the United States — Conference Missionary Society — Field divided into Three Districts — Monrovia — Bassa Cove and Cape Palmas — Recent Intelligence from Liberia — Population of the Colony — Extent — Numbers that Speak the English Language — Petty Sovereignties Extinguished — Treaty with

Neighboring Tribes — Destruction of Slave Factories on the whole Line of Coast, from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas Page 95

Chapter VI. Mission To Oregon

The Appearance of a Stranger at an Indian Festival — His Communication to them in Regard to the Worship of the True God — Deputation of Flat Head Indians to St. Louis — Their Arrival — Conference with the Indian Agent — Facts communicated through the Christian Advocate and Journal — Interest awakened in the Behalf of Flat Heads — Mission Projected — Missionaries sent to Oregon — Their Arrival at Fort Vancouver — First Sermon preached in the Territory — First Administration of the Ordinance of Christian Baptism — Removal to the Willamette River — French and American Settlers — Their Condition — Commencement of a School — Reinforcement sent out — Their Arrival — Additional Missionaries sent out — Temperance Society organized on Total Abstinence Principles — Success of the Mission — Revival in the Mission School — Missionary Society Organized — Door opened among Extensive Tribes — Visit of the Superintendent to the States for the Purpose of procuring more Help — Additional Reinforcement sent out by the Board — Before their Arrival a Glorious Work of God Witnessed — Description of by one of the Missionaries — Extracts from his Journal — Attention bestowed upon the Education of the Children, in Literature, Agriculture, and Mechanic Arts — Difficulties — Letter from the Superintendent — Change in the Superintendency — The Policy of the Board — Change of that Policy — Concurred in by the Missionaries — Statistics contained in the Superintendent's Report — Condition and Wants of the Mission set forth in the Superintendent's Communication — Political and Religious Condition of the Country — Population of the Country rapidly Increasing — Dispatches from Superintendent — Influence of the Mission on the White Population — Presbyterian Missions — Wascopam Mission — Work in the Lower Country — Oregon Literary Institute — Constitution of — Superintendent Resigned, and his Successor Chosen Page 120

Chapter VII. Mission To South America

Religious Condition of the Country — Roman Catholicism Prevalent — Contemplated Mission to by the Board — Communication from an Intelligent and Pious Gentleman at Buenos Ayres — English and American Residents — Society for the Promotion of Religion — Appointment of a Missionary — Visits to Several of the Principal Cities-— Missionary to Buenos Ayres — Formation of a Church — Subscription for the Erection of a Church Edifice — Missionary to Rio de Janeiro — Formation of a Society — Sabbath School — Day School — Assistant Missionary — Teachers — Circulation of the Scriptures — Opposition of the Roman Catholic Priesthood — Deportment of the Missionaries — Visit to Towns in the Interior — English and American Seamen — Interest manifested by a United States Naval Officer — Prosperity of the Mission — Blockade of the Port of Buenos Ayres by French Squadron — Visit to Montevideo — American Families — Missionary Appointed — Difficulties growing out of the Unsettled State of the Country — Labors of the Missionaries — Hopes — Appropriations toward the Erection of the Church withheld by the Board — Prospects Unpropitious — Recall of the Missionaries — Policy of the Board — Rejection of the Bible by the Roman Catholics — Character of that Church — Worship of the Virgin Mary — An Image of brought to this Country — Good Seed Sown — Foreign Residents deplore their Destitute Condition — Organize a Society for the Promotion of Christian Worship — Memorialize the Board, and Ask for a Missionary — Society pledged itself for the Support of the Missionary — Missionary sent to Buenos Ayres — Letter from the Missionary — Condition and Prospects — Testimony of the American Charge d'Affaires — Annual Report of the Buenos Ayrean Misaion — Return of the Missionary — Resolution of the Society — Asked from the Board the Appointment of a Successor — His Place Supplied — Annual Report of the State of the Mission Page 160

Chapter VIII. Mission To Texas

Extent of the Country — Character of the Population — Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church — Rev. Martin Ruter, D. D. — Texas an Independent Republic — Reception of Dr. Ruter and his Assistants — Formation of Circuits — Erection of Churches — Annual Conference in Texas — Church Statistics — Primary Schools — Rutersville College — Liberal Grants of Land made by the Government — Testimony of Respect for Dr. Ruter— Second Session of the Texas Conference — Statistics— Third Session — Numbers in Society — Resolutions in Behalf of Rutersville College — Bible, Missionary, and Sabbath School Institutions — Benevolence of the Church in behalf of — Self-Sacrificing Spirit of the Texas Missionaries — Cost of the Mission less than any on the Foreign List — Difficulties with which it had to Contend — Conference divided into Four Presiding Elder's Districts — Galveston District — Station — Brazos Circuit — Montgomery — Huntsville — Nashville — Franklin — Lake Soda District — Conference Session — A New Conference Organized — Conference Missionary Anniversary — Literary Institutions— Review — Call for German Missionaries — Conclusion > 172

Chapter IX. Mission To The Germans

Predilections of the Germans for the United States — Opposition to Slavery— Our indebtedness to Germany — Reformation born in Germany — The Puritans — Emigration from Germany to the States and Territories of the Union — -Population in some Sections almost entirely German — Germans a Religious People — Theological Opinions — True Religion — German Population never lost Sight of in the Ministrations of the Church — Professor of Oriental Literature educated in Germany — Earnest Inquirer after the Truth — His Conversion — Ways of Providence — Necessity laid upon him of Preaching the Gospel to Others — His Name entered upon the List of Itinerant Preachers — German Mission Commenced — Most Successful and Brilliant since the Days of the Apostles — Adaptation of Vital Christianity to the German Mind — Reviving of Ancient Methodism — Missionary met with Opposition from his Countrymen — His Labors blest to the Awakening and Conversion of Some — Appointed to take Charge of the German Mission in the Columbus District — Laborious Field — Itinerant System — Mission noticed in the Annua] Report — Returned to Cincinnati — Proposition for starting a Religious Paper in the German Language — How Received — Ably-written

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Articles by the Missionary — General Interest awakened in its Behalf — Labors of the Missionary signally blest — Sabbath School Organized — Wesleyan Catechism translated into German — Also Articles of Religion and Rules of the Church — Missionary appointed Editor of the German Paper — First Number issued in 1839 — Extent of its Circulation — Committee appointed by the Ohio Conference to Prepare an Address in its Behalf — Address — A Successor appointed to the Cincinnati Mission — An Interesting Incident — Mission of the Editor to Pittsburg — Results of his Labors — Account of — Missionary sent to Pittsburg — Mission to Wheeling — Wide-spread Influence of German Missions — Located in the Ohio, Pittsburg, Indiana, and Kentucky Conferences — Number of Missionaries and Church Members — Plea in Behalf of the Germans of New York City — Mission established by the New York Conference — Two Missionaries Appointed — German Missions in the North Ohio, Missouri, and New York Conferences — Statistics — Church erected in Cincinnati — Wonderful Results — Extent of the German Field — Missions in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Jersey, and Alabama Conferences — Work divided into Five Districts — Number of Sabbath Schools and Scholars — Translation of Standard Methodist Theology into German Language — Review — Influence of German Missions on Romanism Page 180

Chapter X. Mission To China

Christian Sympathy and Effort awakened in behalf of — Its Vast Extent as a Field for Missionary Labor — Translation of the Bible into the Chinese Language — Offers no Barrier to its Conversion — Subject of Establishing a Methodist Mission frequently before the Board — Liberal Subscriptions pledged for its Support, from Time to Time — Action of the General Missionary Committee — The Bishop appointed Two Missionaries — Embarked for Hongkong — Arrived at the Place of their Destination, Fuhchau — Report of the Committee on Plans of Operation in Regard to China — Location of the Mission — Printing and Books, Practice of Medicine, Establishment of Schools, and Number of Missionaries Needed — Description of the Residence of the Missionaries, and the City of Fuhchau — Additional Information from the Mission — Mission reinforced by the Appointment of Two Additional Missionaries 218

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MISSIONARIES.

Qualifications for the Work — Well-trained Church— Policy of

' the Board in Selecting Missionaries — Outposts of the Christian

Army — Every Requisition on the Ministry met — Ministers for every

Destitute Portion of the Country at Home and Abroad — Letters of Instruction, General and Specific — Importance of Systematic Effort — Duties prescribed in the Discipline — Formation of Circuits — Quarterly and Class Collections — Formation of Missionary Societies — Making out and sending Quarterly Reports to Corresponding Secretary — Reports to embrace the Numbers in Society, Missionaries, Schools, Teachers and Scholars, Condition of the Several Missions — Deportment of the Missionary — Importance of Trust in God — Duties of Superintendents of Foreign Missions — Keep a Diary — Amount of Expenditures not to exceed Appropriations in any Case Page 234

Chapter XII. Appeal In Behalf Of Missions

The Field— Duty of the Church— Facilities Furnished— What the Church should have Done — Missionaries — Future Condition of the Heathen — Opinions Respecting — Responsibility of the Heathen — Divine Procedure in Relation to — Question of Fact — Witnesses — Testimony — Decision — None ever been found saved without the Gospel — Question Settled — Responsibility of the Christian Church — The Work of the Methodist Church — Peculiar Adaptation to the Work — Wesley ans — Missions of — Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church — She has not come up to the Standard of Duty — Present Aspects of the Mission Field — Heathen and Roman Catholic Countries .-. 240