Mrs. Nellie M. Baldwin. Dr. J. M. Thoburn, at the memorial services held in his honor, said, "None, however prejudiced against the experience of perfect love, can say that they had not seen a living example of it in Barton Eddy." His widow writes: "In the few years of our married life I cannot recall a single word, look, or act that was not in keeping with this experience.” He kept a journal from his twenty-first birthday, headed "Notes Along the Highway of Holiness." From the first entry, September 2, 1880, to the last, on December 3, 1885, it is the life story of one who had the mind and spirit of Christ. Mr. Eddy was buried at Bangalore, India. His widow returned to the United States and now resides at Berea, O. He left two children, a son, Milton Walker, born December 6, 1884, and a daughter, Harriet Barton, born after the father's death, February 6, 1886. Mrs. Nellie M. Baldwin. ELLIE M. GORHAM, daughter 33 JOHN B. BENHAM was born at Rome, N. Y., September 20, 1806, and died in Newfield, N. Y., May 1, 1868, of bronchial consumption. He was converted at seventeen years of age, and soon afterward commenced preaching. He spent two years at Cazenovia Seminary, and in the spring of 1828 started out as a missionary to the Indians of Upper Canada, and for five years he devotedly labored for their good, and with some success. He returned to the States, in NEUFEM, Of OR WM, dag Chter of Rev. B. W. received on trial in the Oneida (co, audi a1834 was in Guilford, Chenango County, N. Y., July 30, 1839, She was converted and joined the church at ten years of age, when her father was stationed at Carbondale, Pa. In 1858 her father was stationed at Scranton, Pa., and at that place on September 8, 1858, she was united in marriage to Rev. S. L. Baldwin, of the Newark Conference, who was under appointment as missionary to China. On October 4, 1858, she sailed with her husband for China, and arrived in Foochow March 19, 1859. She entered with diligence upon the study of the Chinese language and made rapid progress. In the spring of 1860 she opened a school for Chinese girls in her house, and spent an hour each day with them, always opening the school with prayer. About the middle of July, 1860, she was taken ill, and continued in such poor health that it was found necessary for her to leave China. With her husband and little daughter, one year old, she sailed, December 22, 1860, for the United States, where she hoped to recover her health and be able to return to her loved work in China. She, however, became weaker and weaker during the voyage and died at sea near midnight March 16, 1861, her last words being: "I am happy. I feel strange, but very happy." She was taken to Binghamton, N. Y., and, after a funeral sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Paddock in the Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church, she was buried in the cemetery on the west bank of the Chenango. One who knew her well wrote: "Her prominent characteristic was energy. Her whole soul was thrown into her work, and in the midst of trials and disappointments she possessed the same steady aim and unfaltering devotion as in brighter moments and amid visible successes. With this remarkable energy, gentleness was combined in an unusual degree, and the happy combination of the two constituted the great charm of her character." 3 | several charges, giving evidence of both ability as a preacher and consecration as a Christian. In 1845 he was appointed superintendent of the Liberia Mission, and, with his wife, sailed, November 4, 1845, for his post. Here for three years he was abundant in labors, but the climate was against him. "Fevers broke his health and brought him, once at least, in close proximity to death, and reluctantly he bade adieu to Africa with its swarthy millions, leaving the blessing of salvation with some to whom he had faithfully given the Gospel.” After his return home his health was sufficiently recovered to enable him to serve several charges, the last of which was Newfield, where he closed his active earthly labors. His interest in the missionary cause continued until his death, and he left a bequest to the Missionary Society. During his last illness he testified that the sting of death was gone. He shouted, "Victory, victory, through the blood of the Lamb. Glory!" He sorrowed much to leave his companion, but commended her to the care of the Saviour, and said, “We have proved many times that the grace of God is sufficient, and that promise is valid yet." His last words were, "O how sweet it is to sleep.' His life and labors witnessed his devotion to Christ and his willingness to suffer for him. He left two works ready for the press, which were afterward published. They were: Mission Life in Western Africa and Indian Missions. "KINGDOM of heaven! whose dawn began "Yet, though with stammering tongues to tell Shall draw the nations to his feet." (34) THE MISSIONARY PULPIT. The Perfect Law of Liberty.* BY JOSHUA SOULE, D.D. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.-James 1. 25. It is in vain to urge that man cannot obey the requisitions of the Gospel because he is a sinful creature. If he were not a sinner, he could not obey those requisitions, because they would be entirely unsuitable to his condition. How could man in his pristine innocence, or angels who have not sinned, obey these commands of the Gospel? Sinners can obey them, and sinners only. HE Gospel is to be understood as the system of THE divine economy in the salvation of sinners by There is a further perfection of fitness in the the mediation of Jesus Christ; embracing all the gracious aid which the Gospel affords to sinners. doctrines, pre- The grace of God, which bringeth salvation, has not cepts, prom- only appeared to all men, but its manifestation is in ises, and threatperfect adaptation to the circumstances of those to enings revealed whom it is made. Has sin darkened the underand made standing, perverted the judgment, and blinded the known by conscience of man? Is he ignorant of God and Christ and his himself? The Gospel is light-unsullied light-a inspired apos- light shining into this darkness-"the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." Neither Christian, Jew, nor heathen is excluded from this divine illumination. The manifestation of the truth commends itself in every man's conscience. The Spirit reproves the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. tles. First. The Gospel of Jesus Christ possess es the properties of law. It makes known the true character of God as our divine Lawgiver. The works of creation and the order estab The grace of the Gospel comes down to his lowest condition of weakness and helplessness. It comes to bring him help and strength-not only to open his eyes that he may see his sin and his danger, but to enable him to turn away from it, and lay hold on eternal life. Imperfect indeed would be the Gospel system if, while it proclaimed the impotency and misery of sinners, it brought no strength to their lished in the kingdom of nature display the perfec-weakness, no relief to their misery. Jesus never intions of the Creator, and on this account may be BISHOP SOULE. called a law. vites helpless and perishing souls to come to him when he does not supply all that is necessary to enable them to obey the invitation. It The Gospel imposes obligations from God. teaches us the relations existing between God and We have a twofold concern with the Gospel: a us, and the obligations founded in those relations. concern of duty or obligation, and a concern of inIt will also be the rule of judgment in the last day. terest or privilege. As a concern of duty or obligaSecond. The Gospel is the law of liberty. It has tion we are required to examine it attentively and released man from his original relations to the law carefully. The Gospel addresses itself to our ungiven to Adam in a state of innocence. He is no derstanding. It is a grand, harmonious system. It longer held obliged to the performance of the right-professes to be a revelation from heaven, and to eousness of that law as a condition of life, and consequently is not condemned by it. This is a point of so much importance in the scheme of salvation that the character of the Gospel dispensation can never be clearly apprehended without it. Third. The Gospel is the perfect law of liberty. It is perfect in itself. There is no obscurity, no weakness, no deficiency in any part of it. As a system of doctrine it contains every truth necessary to be known in order to salvation. The scheme of the Gospel, in its terms of justification and life, is suited not to innocent and holy creatures, such as man was when he came from the creating hand of God, but to beings guilty and polluted, such as man is in his state of transgression. These terms are repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; both of which necessarily involve sin and guilt. • Extracts from a sermon preached January 14, 1827. support its claims by the authority of God himself, having the eternal salvation of man as its object. Whatever right of government or control the Deity might claim over his sinful creatures it has pleased him in this most merciful economy to stoop down to our low condition-to instruct us, to reason with us, and to invite us to reason with him. It becomes us, therefore, to listen attentively to his instructions, and to examine carefully the message he has sent us. The mind must be disciplined to meditation upon these things. Habits of indolence are to be overcome. Our indisposition to thinking must be subdued. But it is not enough that we look narrowly and diligently into the perfect law of liberty in the way of examination. We have a far more extensive concern of duty and obligation with it. It is the rule of our obedience. It is Christ's yoke which we are obliged to take upon us. Letting the Light Shine. But we have a concern of interest, of privilege, in the Gospel; and our interest in it is designed as a powerful motive to action. It is emphatically the Gospel of our salvation. It provides and makes known the way, the only way, of salvation. There is no other ground of hope, no other means of access to God, no other ministry of reconciliation, no other law of liberty, no other fountain of pardon, peace, and life. If we fail of being saved by the Gospel, we are lost-inevitably and forever lost. What an interest have we, then, in this scheme of salvation! Add to this the blessedness of those who look into the Gospel, and continue steadfast in sincere and humble obedience to its holy commandments. The blessings of pardon, peace, and holiness are their inheritance on earth, and a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory their portion in heaven. Therefore every living Christian is a steward over God's mysteries, and he is called to be faithful. Therefore the Church, the company of real believers, is the pillar of truth. Only those who have experienced the blessed secret of the new birth can lead others to it; therefore they do a great wrong if they refrain from testifying to it. 35 Stephen only were brightened by divine light. In What a mighty impulse this thought gives us, really to review our life and to see whether it is up to its great mission. We are to live for Christ in this world as his witnesses. Men who see our good works are to praise not us, but our Father in heaven. We are not to exhibit ourselves in this world as specimens of virtue for our own glory, but we are to live such a life that people who see it marvel what God can make out of man. As with individuals, so with churches. In refusing to give they bring barrenness and deadness on themselves. Said an eminent layman once, making a platform missionary address: "I have heard of churches starving out from a saving spirit; but I have never But how are we to witness? Undoubtedly in a heard of one dying of benevolence. If I could hear twofold manner-by our word and by our life. The of one such, I would make a pilgrimage to it by one is insufficient without the other. The word is night, and in that quiet solitude, with the moon necessary to explain the truth, to make it intelligi- shining and the aged elm waving, I would put my ble, but the life must show that the words are true. hand on the moss-clad ruins and, gazing on the venThe injunction to let our light shine evidently referserable scene, would say, 'Blessed are the dead who more to the profession of our lives. die in the Lord.' "-Preacher's Lantern. Only he can let his light shine who has light. The natural man who lives without God in this world lives in darkness. He is without the divine light. The Light of the Gospel. 1 John 2. 8. I. The Darkness of the Past. 1. The darkness of heathenism. 2. The darkness of Judaism. 3. The darkness of a corrupt Christianity. It is not the human light of our intellect, or even of The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.— of our morality, that God wants to shine. That would be a poor light indeed! But is the light even of Christian lives such that it is worth showing off? What we are to let shine is not ourselves, but our light; not our persons, but that which God has given us. We have a splendid example of this in nature. The moon has no light of her own, but when the light of the sun can reach her she throws her gentle light into our dark nights. The Christian also has no light of his own. But when he is in contact with Jesus, who is the light of life, he can communicate this light to others. Not the faces of Moses and II. The Light of the Present. 1. The Bible. 2. Preaching of the word. 3. Education. 4. The press. III. The Glory to be Revealed. 1. Universal progress. 2. Universal brother- Program. TOPIC: "The World." (36) MISSIONARY CONCERT. SCRIPTURE READING: Acts 17. 22-31. Jesus, immortal King, arise; In 1859 there were 98 missionary organizations, with 2,032 male missionaries, 76 unmarried female missionaries, 169 native ministers, 5,785 native helpers, 227,000 native communicants, and an income of $4,590,000. In 1897 there were 367 missionary organizations, with 6,576 male missionaries, 3,982 unmarried female PRAYER: For the continual and rapidly increasing missionaries, 4,185 native ministers, 67,754 other naprogress of Christianity in all lands. SINGING: Methodist Hymnal, Hymn 918: Sovereign of worlds! display thy power; ADDRESS: The World: Its Population, Political Divisions; Religions, Protestant Missions, Destiny. SINGING: Methodist Hymnal, Hymn 932: The morning light is breaking; The darkness disappears. COLLECTION. tive helpers, 1,448,861 native communicants, and an income of $14,513,970. If to the missionaries shall be added the wives of missionaries, who are often as efficient and useful as their husbands, we have about 14,000 foreign missionaries working among nonChristians. The non-Christians are increasing much faster than the Christians, but this need not discourage us, Christianity is leavening the non-Christian nations and peoples and preparing them for the rapid prog REFERENCES: Missions at Home and Abroad; For-ress of Protestant missions. Christians are feeling eign Missions After a Century, by J. S. Dennis; A Hun- as never before the claims of the heathen world upon dred Years of Missions, by D. L. Leonard; Missionary them. The year 1900 should witness a great inExpansion Since the Reformation, by J. A. Graham ; crease of missionary enthusiasm, liberality, and A Concise History of Missions, by E. M. Bliss. evangelization. The heathen are known under the names of Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists, Shintoists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsees, and Pagans. PROTESTANT FOREIGN MISSIONS. Protestant missions have made great advances during the present century. In 1799 there were but six Protestant mission organizations for foreign missions, with 150 missionaries, 7,000 native communicants, and an income of $50,000. Twenty-one years afterward (1820) there were 20 organizations, with 421 male missionaries, 1 unmarried female missionary, 7 native ministers, 166 other native helpers, 21,787 native communicants, and an income of $610,000. A Plea for the Heathen. THE night of the world is falling, And brothers! no common cry Comes out from the distance, calling The multitude passing by: "O leave us not here to perish, O answer! Are none of you willing The world for its Lord is waiting! -Sikh. (37) TIDINGS FROM MISSION FIELDS. The Superintendent of the Madras Publishing | must go forth with an energy and a holy violence I House and His Plans. BY J. H. STEPHENS. unknown to anything which went before it. It is no use praying "Thy kingdom come " without doing all in one's power to hurry it on. Dr. Rudisill has left his beautiful country, which I so much admired, and has come out into what may be considered the world's "highways and hedges." Will not Christian America do all in its power, and its power is great and God-given, to compel the heathen to "come in?" The compulsion is the free use of all the most advanced discoveries in proclaiming God's word, to do which Dr. Rudisill now solic HAVE known Dr. A. W. Rudisill very intimately from the date of his first landing in India, now more than fourteen years. My church connections as local preacher, recording steward, treasurer, and Sunday school superintendent put me into very close connection with him all the time he was pastor and Presiding Elder of the Vepery Circuit. As a member of the Publishing House Committee I was associated with Dr. Rudisill from almost the begin-its your aid. ning of the now magnificent Press and Publishing In the press and bindery and other works con House at Madras. I have found the doctor very keen in all business transactions, quick to see and to solve difficulties, undaunted by discouragements, laborious, hardworking, and painstaking in pushing his work on to success. Without these qualities the Madras Methodist Episcopal Press and Publishing House could not have been the great institution it now is, turning out work of the highest order, and of a variety hitherto unknown in the whole of southern Asia. The doctor has been explaining his building schemes to me. They are only the natural result of the work already done. I consider them all very practical and necessary. The little leaflets must go forth by the million, in all languages, into every nook and corner of Asia, into every street, and alley, and home, and hut, as the eternal voice of the loving Father calling, with an unceasing, importunate call to his children. This loving "compelling" of them to "come in" must not stop in volume or in energy till all the heathen acknowledge Christ as Lord, or till time shall cease. Dr. Rudisill has building projects for these leaflets, as well as for a large audience room, where the cultured heathen can be attracted and reached. It so happens, in the providence and leading of God, that the Publishing House, and the land attached to it, on which he purposes to build, are not only in the busiest thoroughfare of the city, but also near the Cosmopolitan Club, where the cultured heathen, the leaders of the people, daily assemble. With an audience room properly arranged, and the proximity of the heathen club as a help, there should be no difficulty in attracting and reaching these cultured heathen, skilled in all the heavy philosophy and ritual enshrouding degrading idolatry. The doctor also desires, by the aid of electricity and other modern discoveries, to flash out Gospel messages in the darkness and in the void above the buildings, which everyone cannot help seeing. nected therewith Dr. Rudisill has had to employ quite a large number of little boys. From the aptitude shown by these youngsters and the quickness with which they pick up new things he desires to make his Press also a great industrial institution, where boys can be quickly taught and sent out to earn their own living. In the large government buildings I have had to construct I had a great deal to do with such boys, and know the nimbleness of their fingers, and the sharpness of their intellects, and the quickness with which they pick up what is considered the most difficult of the high art works of the West, like cathedral-stained glass work, for instance. I very heartily approve of this branch of Dr. Rudisill's scheme, and in the practical good he will be doing a large number of Indian boys, and in the good influences with which he will surround them, he will be opening out one other great road to the kingdom. I Bangalore, India, July 10, 1899. The Methodist Mission in Sindh. BY REV. W. D. WALLER. AM pastor of our English church in Karachi, India, and in this capacity also act as Wesleyan chaplain to over 100 Wesleyan soldiers stationed there. Our membership (civilian) is not very strong numerically, being only about 50; but we have a goodly number of adherents who may be added to this number, as practically they are one with us. Except in large presidency towns, such as Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, the English-speaking classes are not numerous. Our English church raises about 300 rupees a month for the support of the ministry and church, and we have church property here valued at over 20,000 rupees, all of which represents local effort, nothing having been contributed by the Missionary Society. In addition to the English work under my charge His plans are all very practical and feasible, and there is a growing native work. The prospects something which must be done. The awakened for this missionary work are most encouraging, voice of a living Church, the representative of its and the only obstacles in the way of a big adliving God, is bound to make use of all the intelli-vance are very necessary funds and capable workgent discoveries which enter the new century as ers. I have this year up to date baptized 63 adults mediums and powers given by him to proclaim him- and 9 children from Hinduism and Mohammedself. The old order perisheth. It has done no more anism, and before the year is out hope that the than to "prepare the way" for the new order, which number will have reached over 100. How my heart |