AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Bible House, Astor Place, New York. REV. DAVID B. COE, D.D., Honorary Secretary. REV. JOSEPH B. CLARK, D.D., Secretaries for Correspondence. REV. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Treasurer. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:-WM. IVES WASHBURN, Esq., Chairman; MR. WM. HENRY SMITH; MR. JOHN WILEY; REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.; MR. CHARLES II. PARSONS; MR. ALBERT WOODRUFF; REV. JAMES G. ROBERTS, D.D.; REV. SAMUEL H. VIRGIN, D.D.; MR. JOSEPH WM, RICE; MR. HIERBERT M. DIXON; REV. ROBERT R. MEREDITH, D.D.; MR. G. HENRY WHITCOMB; REV. CHAS. H. RICHARDS, D.D.; REV. WASHINGTON CHOATE; ASA A. SPEAR, Esq., Recording Secretary. COMMUNICATIONS Relating to the general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence. Communications relating to the Editorial Department of THE HOME MISSIONARY, and to the WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT, may be addressed to MRS. II. S. CASWELL, Bible House, N. Y. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS In Drafts, Checks, Registered Letters, or Post-Office Orders; also Communications relating to the business matters of THE HOME MISSIONARY and other Publications of the Society, may be addressed to ALEX'B H. CLAPP, Treasurer, Bible House, Astor Place, New York. Post-Office Orders should be drawn on STATION D, New York City. A Payment of $50 Constitutes a Life Member. SUPERINTENDENTS. REV. HENRY A. SCHAUFFLER, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, O. KEV. M. W. MONTGOMERY, Scandinavian Department, 45 Warren Avenue Chicago, Ill. REV. JONATHAN E. ADAMS, D.D., Secretary........ Maine Missionary Society. JOHN L. CROSBY, Esq., Treasurer...... HON, LYMAN D. STEVENS, Treasurer.. REV. JAMES TOMPKINS, D. D., Secretary. REV. T. G. GRASSIE, Secretary New Hampshire Home Miss. Vermont Domestic Massachusetts Home 46 Rhode Island 44 ..Helena, Mon. Bangor, Me. Soc., Concord, N. II. Concord, N. H. St. Johusbury, Vt. St. Johnsbury, Vt. 9 Cong House, Boston, Mass. Pawtucket, R. I. Providence, R. I. Missionary Soc, of Connecticut.. Hartford, Conn. ..Hartford, Conn. New York Home Miss. Society....Syracuse, N. Y. ....New York City. THE HOME MISSIONARY. GO............ PREACH the GOSPEL..... Mark xvi. 15. How shall they preach except they be SENT?....Rom. x. 15. VOL. LXIII. JANUARY, 1891. No. 9. "By virtue of the fact that you are a Christian, you are in commission as a Home Missionary.' "WHAT We need to do for this hard world every day is to put something of Christ into it." "RECENTLY a church in London tried self-denial for one week, and raised more money than their whole annual collection for missions." THERE must be brain service, hand service, foot service, purse service, as well as lip service, if we would see the answer to our prayers. "MISSIONARIES do not like to complain. They very much prefer to tell of their joys. But they have sorrows and shed bitter tears. One of the hardest things to endure is the sight of precious souls perishing for lack of the Lord's money." "WE sometimes wonder if 'Praying and Paying' are as the two arms to the body whereby we do the will of the mind, or as the two wings that bear on equal poise the bird aloft. One arm or one wing is better than none, but we are best balanced for use or comfort by having a holy twohandedness." "A GOOD CHRISTIAN cannot be other than eager for the extension of our Lord's kingdom among men, not only from his sense of what is due to the Lord who bought him, but also from his natural sense of justice, his persuasion that he has no right to withhold from others those privileges and prospects which are the joy of his own inmost life." FIVE POINTS OF CALVINISM. BY PRESIDENT BARNES, FARGO COLLEGE, NORTH DAKOTA. [From an address delivered at the dedication of the George H. Jones Memorial Hall of Fargo College, North Dakota, October 7, 1890.] WHILE I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and so have no special wisdom, I yet cannot but know that in the apprehension. of all reading, thinking, devout people of the present day these five propositions that I am about to name are only less than axiomatic-for all practical purposes, indeed, are of the rank of first truths. And of these The first is, that on one condition, and one condition only, the Anglo-Saxon is to dominate the race.* In the year 1700 he numbered 6,000,000; in the year 1800, 20,000,000; and in the year 1880, 100,000,000. So that now, constituting as he does only about one-fifteenth of the inhabitants of the globe, he yet rules over one third of its surface and one fourth of its populace. He is a wedge-six millions, twenty millions, a hundred millions-which, struck by the blows of resistless providences, is to cleave asunder the nations. The second proposition is, that if the Anglo-Saxon dominates the race, he will do so FROM America. Here he is concentrated, massed, while elsewhere, in the comparison at least, he is distributed, scattered; and here he is in possession of a continent, the one fit place for the forthputting of his power; the place from which, if from anywhere, as from a shoulder, the blow is to be delivered before which alien civilizations are to fall; the place sought, and sought in vain, by Archimedes on which one might stand and move the world. The third proposition is, that the one condition on which the AngloSaxon is to dominate the race, and dominate it FROM America, is, that he dominate it IN. America. Here, I have said, he is in possession of a continent, and he is; but that possession is not undisputed. Here, too, I have said, he is concentrated, massed, and he is; but we are not to forget that over against him, massed and massing, these alien civilizations are challenging his supremacy. Evidently, if he cannot maintain himself at home he will do little by way of achieving conquests abroad. If mutiny cannot be kept down on the deck of the flag-ship, what conceivable ground of hope that the fleet of the enemy will be swept from the sea? The fourth proposition is, that the strategic point in this one vast battle field, which America is, is the great Northwest. I do not deny that in the East, in the Middle States, and in the South, they have their questions, civil, social, and economic, which are of every degree of impor * My indebtedness to Dr. Josiah Strong in the matter of these propositions will be apparent to all, and is hereby cheerfully acknowledged.-G. B. B. |