1832. The Ameriqan Baptist Home Mission Socięty. 1895. The General Missionary Organization of American Baptists for the Evangelization PRESIDENT.-H. K. PORTER, Esq., Penn. 3. CHURCH EDIFICE. E. M. VAN DUZEE, Esq., Minn. AUDITORS.- CHARLES B. CANFIELD, Esq., N. Y. E. T. HISCOX, D.D. In charge of Church Edifice Work, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF MISSIONS. Rocky Mountain Division.-Ok., I. T., Wy., Ida., The French in N. E.-Rev. J. N. Williams, 22 Arch St., The Germans.-Rev. G. A. Schulte, 3201⁄2 Webster St., The Indians.-Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. J. GENERAL MISSIONARIES. W. Virginia.-Rev. W. E. Powell, 916 Swan St., Parkersburg. North Dakota.-Rev. W. L. Van Horn, Fargo. South Dakota.-Rev. T. M. Shanafelt, D.D., Huron. Kansas. Rev. E. B. Meredith, Topeka. Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Rev. L. J. Dyke, Montana and S. Idaho.-Rev. L. G. Clark, Helena. Colorado and New Mexico.-Rev. Geo. P.Wright, Denver. Oregon.-Rev. Gilman Parker, 162 Second St., Portland. SECRETARY OF BOARD. ALEX. TURNBULL. D. W. PERKINS, ESQ. M. MACVICAR, LL.D., N. Y. DISTRICT SECRETARIES. 1. N. E. District.-Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Ct.- 4. Lake District.-Mich. and Ohio. Rev. E. H. E. 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. 8. Missouri River District.-Iowa, Nebr. and Ks., GENERAL MISSIONARIES (Colored). 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. Morgan, Corresponding Secretary.. In the transmission of funds, all Checks, Drafts and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the order or 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. HOME * MISSION * MONTHLY. VOL. XVII. SEPTEMBER, 1895. EDITORIAL. REMEMBER !-FIFTY CENTS A MEM BER. The Home Mission Society at Saratoga adopted the following resolution: "We most earnestly urge the members of our churches, in consideration of the great and growing work of this Society, to increase their contributions so that they may reach at least the average of fifty cents a member for all who are enrolled in the churches of our constituency." Is not this a modest request? Is not this a very reasonable request ? How much was the average per member of your church last year for Home Missions? Pastors, brethren, will you not strive to bring the contributions up to this average the present year? There is great need of it. We ask the special attention of pastors to the Catechism on Wills which appears in this number of the MONTHLY. It has been printed in pamphlet form and will be supplied, on application to the secretaries, gratuitously, in any number that may be required. There are many people who would remember the Society in their wills, if their attention were delicately called to the subject by their pastors. There are very few churches indeed in which at least one or more such persons, cannot be found. Α little co-operation with us in this matter, on the part of pastors, will secure rich harvests for our missionary work in the future. The Home Mission Society is and has been largely dependent upon receipts from legacies, and doubtless will continue to be so in the future. Indeed, there have been times when great legacies, like "the Sampson or "Coburn," have been received as special interpositions of Providence in behalf of the Society and its work. It is an open secret that the success of the Roman Catholics in building up and carrying forward their ecclesiastical enterprises has been due in large part to the zeal of their priests in pressing upon the members of their flocks the claims of their church work, and in securing from them liberal bequests. Will not Protestant pastors be equally zealous in a better cause? Will pastors and others please give us notice of wills already made in favor of the Society? Such information will be treated as confidential. The thought of Missions-sending a personal offer of salvation to lost menoriginated with man's Creator and loving Father. The first Great Missionary, bearing the message from Heaven to earth, was Jesus Christ, His Son, our Saviour, whose life of missionary zeal remains as the Great Example to all missionaries. The authority and impulse for Christian Missions was embodied in the Great Commission, and communicated to the early Church by Jesus Christ. The superintendent and guiding force of Missions is none other than the Holy Spirit. The motive for Missions is loyalty to Christ and love for men. The impelling force prompting men to missionary effort is religious life. An indispensable condition to the successful continuance of missionary effort is personal consecration. The organizing missionary force is, primarily, the local, individual church. |