The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 02, 1899, Image 3
'TIST STATE
MISS3X mi
it is Being Done by the
Slate Board.
GALLANT WORK.
County In tlie Kt:it<- ll:is 1-Vlt tlio
I ient'o of Stiito MUsi<>iiK-- s Mmi«‘ I'luln
ft About Moriuuiilsin in Sontli Cnro-
Stato Mission Hoard was or-
ed by our State Convention in
The Rev. J. 0. B. Dargan, I). I
[as its lirst corresponding seen- :
policy of the Convention rein- !
» the work of tiie Board was
tad in u simple resolution : “That
oard for the present prosecute j
ly the work of State Missions, J
hat the general agent endeavor
cite in the Associations an active
est in the other objects of the
entionV”
th the brethren of that Conven-
Stute Missions was the work,
felt it to be a great work, they
t first, and their policy was to
up everything else through this
cy. They were right, for that
to Ohio, whence they were driven out
and went to Missouri, where they
committed murder, arson, robbery
and perjury and were expelled from
the State b.? citizens acting under or
ders from Governor Boggs. Escaping
into Illinois Smith claimed to receive
a special revelation enjoining poly
gamy. The proclamation and prac
tice of this infamous doctrine made
him so obnoxious to the people that
he was lodged in jail and afterwards
shot by an infuriated mob in ISHl.
It is a fact that the Mormons start
ed in 1810 tor Utah under the leader
ship of Brigham Young, who died in
1877. He was succeeded by Taylor,
who died in Mexico in 1887. a fugi
tive from justice under the Edmunds
nti-polygamy law, by Woodruff, who
Jtisnjfact that the Mormons ac
cept the “Book of Mormon'' and the
“Doctrino and Covenants” to be as
holy and authoritative as the Bible
itself.
ll is a fact that the Book of Mor
mon is a religious romance chiefly
purporting to ho a history of the
American Indians from UOO B. C. to
A. 1). 100. Although Smith claimed
to have discovered by direction of an
angel metallic plates on which were
inscribed in a peculiar writing the
revelation, it is known to bo largely
inspired by a manuscript novel writ
ten by Solomon Spaulding, an unsuc
cessful. 1'resbyterian preacher, and
afterwards revised by another eccen
tric preacher, Sidney Rigdon, who
inserted Scripture passages to give it
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lie New Te-lament order. The
tailing of the gospel, they felt
the primary w ork of the churches.
Ib Missions was to be the great
|r. it must he so yet. It is still
(work before us. and in proportion
re lose sight of this fact, will
3r interests sulTer in the end.
|hc work prospered under the lend-
iip of brethren, Dargan, IV,pe,
frail, Lamar, Strickland, Griffith
the pnsent incumbent. Every
rs rt showed growth, and now
ry ore of our thirty four Associa-
js is in sympathy with the Board
contributes to its work,
fvery county in ;ho State has felt
Influence of State Missions,
hie tnissionarh s and colporters of
Board have traveled over almost
ry country road and by-path from
Nortli Carolina line to the Savan-
Itivc-r. They have gone over
intains, through swamps and for-
and sand-hiHs everywhere they
b gone talking to the people and
(aching the word. Strong churches
}o been built up in towns, villages
destitute country places. Of the
white Baptist churches in our
te, one third of them has been
Ihered and built up by Missionaries
1 h^State Board.
f’d^ihirty three years this work
been going on with marked suc-
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is, and yet the time has not come
J relax our energies, to shorten our
Ipropriations, and to call in our
rces. There are yet waste places in
lr mountain districts and on our
ithern borders, where the standard
| the cross must Im planted and peo-
urged to rally around it. There
larger numbers of our people who
fed to be taught the ways of God
>re perfectly. The <>0,()(>t> people
gated in our factory towns
jot be overlooked. The thirty-
Mormon Missionaries who are
iveling over our State spreading
loir foul doctrines mr^t be looked
Iter, and our duty to do our part in
fting up the colored people to u
(gher moral and religious plane must
it be forgotten. Much has been
me, but very much yet remains to
done. State Mission work must he
;pt in the forefront. It needs more
rmputhy, more prayer, and larger
mtribut ions.
Some ritiin Fuctn Ahout .Mormonism.
It isy fact that the Mormons are
itting fort h zealous efforts to spread
ieir doctrines in the Enited States,
ipeclally in the South and West,
[bout live hundnd missionaries are
“work in the South, their headquur-
|rs being in Chattanooga.
It is a fact that the lirst Mormon
(lurch was organized in Fayette, N.
1830, its founder being Joseph
mith, who claimed to bo a “1‘rophet,
eer and revelator. ”
It is a fact that Smith and a band
it of followers moved from New York
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I’OL. PATRKK, OK Till: RATRH'K MILITARY INSTITI TK.
died last year, and by Lorenzo Snow,
the present ''ucumbent.
It is a fact that the Mountain Mea
dow massacre occurred in JSo7 in
L'tah, when one hundred and twenty
emigrants on their way to California
were butchered by a emipany of
Mormons and Indians led by John D.
Leo acting under orders from Brig
ham Young. The Mormons once.i
the guilty parties for twenty years;
but the leader. John 1). Let', was ar
rested on testimony of detectives,
convicted in a federal court on Mor
mon testimony and executed in L'77.
Brigham Young's death soon after
wards prevented Ids being brought to
the effect of a revelation from God
Joseph Smith dictated the Book of
Mormon to an amanuensis, keeping
; liimseli concealed behind a curtain,
a bed-blanket, stretched across the
room. Soon afterwards the plates
disappeared.
I It. is a fact that Mormons claim
’ that the whole, euith lias been given
t) them by God and that all who do
m t become Mormons are to he ex
terminated by them, just us Israel
destroyed the Canaanites.
j It is a fact that Mormonism teaches
polygamy as the perpetual family or-
■ der of (iod. God is represented as a
polygamist, having a material “body
\V. K. i:\TZ.M I MiKIl.
trial for this shocking crime. The
emigrants were encamped in a valley
surrounded by hills and were besieg
ed in vain for a few days. The Mor
mons tlien presented a Hug of truce
and promised the emigrants their
lives if they would lay down their
arms and lea..j all they had. The
proposition was accepted and the em
igrants were marched out in single
file, the men first, who w« re shot by
Indians in ambush at a given signal,
while the Mormons cruelly slaughter
ed the women and children. Their
bodies were left to vultures while the
and all the parts and passions of a
man;” ho co-habited with Eve and
became the father of the human race,
and with the Virgin Mary, another of
his wives, and became the father of
Jesus. Mary and Martha and Mary
Magdalene were wives of Jesus, a
polygamist. Decency forbids the
mention of other polygamous teach
ings.
It is a fact that Mormons
teach that child-bearing will continue
throughout eternity, the saints be
coming fathers and mothers in the
next just as in this world, and that
K. N. K. RAILKY, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OK SOUTH CARO!,
COEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE, E D< i E Kl E I.D, S. C.
property was divided among the per
petrators of the atrocious deed.
It is a fact that the Greek word,
Mormon, means (Liddell and Hcott),
“a hideous she-monster,” a fitting
name for such a system us that styl
ed, “The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Duy Saints.”
this will ho one of the chief meai
u man’s glory, he being the mos
alted who has the greatest numl
wives.
It is a fact that Mormons t
that unmarried women go straig
perdition, however excellent
characters, while all married wo
however wicked, go straight to heav
en. Gut of marriage no salvation for
a Mormon woman.
It is a fact that the “Book of Mor
mon” forbids polygamy, but Joseph
Smith received a later “Revelation
on the Eternity of the Marriage Cove
nant. Including Plurality of Wives.”
and authorized polygamy. Polygamy
can never be renounced by the Mor
mons without renouncing the system.
It is a fact that Mormonism holds
that all who die without becoming
Mormons are lost, but they will have
an opportunity of accepting their
teachings in the next world and of
being saved. But as they teach that
without water baptism there can be
no salvation, they baptize the living
for their departed friends > and relu-
trino until they have made a prose
lyte. In this way many an unwary
soul hns been led by fair promises to
go to Utah to endure a burdensome
life; deceived by plausible teachings
the unsuspecting are ensnared into a
vile system from which they long in
vain for liberty, held by the power
and threats of the priesthood,
It is a fact that Mormon mission
aries are trying to subvert the Gospel
' of Christ, however much they may
deny it, and should not be given hos
pitality or aided in any way in their
infamous work. For humanity’s sake,
when in sickness or dire need, they
should be helped, but no lover of the
Lord Jesus should receive them us a
disciple.
“If there come any unto you, and
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1'EoF. <\ .1. OWENS, I‘RES I DENT OF ORANO ERURO COLLEGE AND FIRST
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE 15. V. V. C. OE SOUTH CAROLINA.
lives. bring not this doctrine, receive him
It is a fact that Mormons reject all ! not into your house, neither bid him
allegiance to any earthly government ! (iod speed; for be that biddetli him
save as a matter of policy. They hold | God speed is partaker of his evil
that no man can rightfully hold any , deeds.” Second John 10:11.
civil office without ordination to the ; Mormonism is a detestable corn-
priesthood; that all civil laws are I pound of Paganism, Mohammodan-
null and void, that civil courts have i ism, Judaism and Christianity so
no jurisdiction and that all who re- vile and contradictory as to be un-
ject Mormonism are liable to punish- worthy of being called a religious
ment. | system. The State Mission Board is
It is a fact that Joseph Smith was | doing its best to counteract theinllu-
a false prophet. He prophesied that ence of these false teachers,
the saints were to build a temple
at Independence, .Missouri, which —J. \V. Tolleson has just received
“should stand forever.” This failed ■ a nice assortment of ladies beaded
when lie was driven from the State, j elastic belts,
\V. E. ENTZMINDER.
but he confidently prophesied that
the city of Nauvoo, 111., should “Be
to the saints an everlasting habita
tion.” H is brief stay there showed
that he did not have the secrets of
God.
It is a fact that Mormon elders
claim to be spreading the gospel free
of charge; but they do not tell the
people that they have left their wives
and children behind to provide for
themselves as best they can, thus
practically abandoning their families.
It is a fact that, while Mormon el
ders declare that they offer the gos-
,Cotton Mill For Humboldt.
Humholdt, Tenn., Dec. 1.—Humboldt
will soon have a 5,000-spindlo cotton
mill. Today several stockholders met
and made application for a charter. The
authorized capital is $100,000 and most
of the stock has already been subscribed.
The promoters of this enterprise are the
wealthiest citizens in this community.
A committee of four returned yesterday
from a tour of inspection of the south
ern mills and expressed themselves as
being satisfied that nothing better to
invest money in than a southern cotton
mill exists.
MRS. M. M. RILEY.
pel without money and without price,
in Utah the tithing law is enforced,
requiring the tenth of everything
produced, even to garden vegetables,
and also the t< nth of time at work on
some church enterprise.
It is a fact that Mormons prac
tice duplicity. They present among
strangers their more acceptable teach
ings, holding back their nefarious doc-
CNiii|>Nl(fii Ih lielng 1'usnca.
Washington, Dec. L—Genera Otis’
advices to the war department today
show that the advance into the interior
is being vigorously pushed and the
American troops continue to drive back
and disperse the scattered bands encoun
tered. Ho states that Captain War
wick, Eighteenth Infantry, was killed
in an engagi ment at Eussi, Iloilo prov
ince, on the twenty-sixth ult.
BAPTIST FOREIGN
MISSION WORK.
[CONTISFED I ROM CAGE ONE.]
has so much been done to uplift it as
by Christian missions; and, no other
agency can show the same good edu
cational and moral results at so little
expense.
A tilanccut the Elchin of the Foreif'ii Mis
sion lloiirtl.
Before the organization of the
Southern Baptist Convention the
Baptists oftbe South gave through the
Triennial Convention, and had their
representatives in the foreign fields.
I’ossibly the most prominent of these
was Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, who had
gone from Virginia ten years before,
and was laboring in China. It was
most natural that he should come
under the care of the Convention, and
that the first actual work undertaken
by the Foreign Mission Board should
be in China.
Mr. Shuck labored at Macao, Can
ton, a % nd Shanghai. Ho was the pio
neer of an illustrious line of miscion-
aries sent by Southern Baptists to
that field.
The work in China is divided into
three separate missions, which are
widely separated and very different.
First in order is the Southern China
Mission, which has Canton as its cen-
W. E.CROCKER.
ter, covering almost all of Kwang
Tung province and a good part of
Kwang Si. Beginning in 181"), the
work in this field has grown till now
we have over 1,200 members.
Fussing up the coast something
like a thousand miles, we to ich our
Central China Mission, which will
always possess peculiar interest for
our people, because it was the scene
of the distinguished Dr. Yates’ la
bors. Shanhai is the principal sta
tion.
Another journey up the coast of six
or seven hundred miles is the North
China Mission.
The summary attached at th : end
of this article shows that we havo
under the blessing of the Lord ac
complished good results in Ciina.
\Ye ought to be profoundly graceful
for the results accomplished. And
yet of the throbbing million i in
China only a few thousands have
been reached by us. The past year
has been the best in t he history of
our China work, and greater things
are to follow.
The next field into which into the
sickle was thrust is the Dark Conti
nent. Africa, where work was begun
in 1850. Owing to the hostility of
the climate in the section where our
mission is located, on the lowlands
of the western coast, it has been hard
to keep up the force of workers to
such a point as would promise large
results.
The past year has had no striking
features; the work has gone on about
as usual. What we need to do is
greatly to roinfororce the field, and,
as Ethiopia is stretching out her
MRS. w. E. CIUK IvER.
hands unto God, show her the way to
come to Him.
The heart of our people next began
to turn to Italy, being moved by the
great need of her priest-ridden peo
ple. As soon as Romo was taken by
the conquering army of Victor Eman
uel. September 20, 1870, the armies
of Christ could enter, and our work
was begun at once.
While the work in Italy may not
be the most fruitful, it must be re
membered that Italy is included in
the commissisn, and as sorely needs
the pure, saving Gospel as does any
people. The work done almost en
tirely by natives would doubtless be
greatly advanced were the Board to
send a large reinforcement of Ameri-
ican workers.
Not willing to stop with an effort
to save from the destructive power
of Papacy those under the shadow of
the Vatican, the Board opened work
in Mexico, our neighboring repub
lic, where a beginning was made in
1880, ten years after Italy was en
tered. Mexico has been a fruitful
field, and now we havo a gratifying
showing. The work has lately been
divided into two missions, the North
Mexican Mission and the South Mexi
can Mission.
The past year has been marked by
internal troubles, us the result of
which a goodly number of the former
missionaries resigned. But perfect
peace reigns now, and the work, re
inforced by a number of excellent
new workers, moves steadily forward
and promises much for the future.
The turning toward Mexico was a
very natural precursor of taking Bra-
zil upon the heart. Work was begun
hero two years later than in Mexico,
in 1882. Brazil has proven a rich
and responsive field. The work,
though hindered in its early history
by internal troubles, has made re
markably fine advancement, and now
makes a good showing.
The youngest of all our missions is
in the marvellous little country, Ja
pan, which we entered ten years ago.
1889. As yet the force is small and
and the the showing is not large, but
progress is steady, and the future
will be fruitful.
A combination of the foregoing sta
tistics from the six fields gives the
table attached. Southern Baptists
need greatly to enlarge the force on
eacli one of these fields, and, what’s
more, need to press on till every nook
and corner of this dark w'orld shall
see their light:
COCNTUIES.
I’hlim....
Africa ...
Italy
Mexico
Brazil
Japiti ..
Total
1*45,40 55
1*50 <i| 10
1**0 1 ‘JO
18*0 10 111
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The following missionaries of
the Southern Baptist Convention are
from South Carolina: Dr. J. B. Hart
well and Miss Anna B. Hartwell,Tung
Chow, China, Miss Lula Whilden
Canton, China, Rev. M. W. Lawton
Chinkiang, China, Mrs. W. E. Crock
er, Chinkiang, China, Rev. W. E.
En’zminger and wife Pernambuco,
Brazil. These consecrated noble sons
and daughters of the state are prov
ing a blessing us they carry the light
of Christ to those in darkness and sin.
NO PREFERENCE OF PRISON.
Kecso Decline* it .Judgo’s Spuclul Jail
Privilege OfIVr.
Fort Scott, Kan., Nov. 30.—John P.
Reese, member mt the national execu
tive board of the United Mine Workers
of America, sentenced to jail for con-
temnt of the federal court, has refused
the offer of Judge Williams for special
privileges at Topeka, saying:
“An innocent man has no preference
of prisons in which to bo unjustly con
fined.”
Reese had been sentenced to the fed
eral prison here, but when Judge Wil
liams learned that the accommodations
were poor he ordered him taken to the
Topeka jail, where he could have the
Bole use of a corridor.
Because ho made speeches to striking
miners in their own hall, which is not
on the mining company’s property,
Reese was sent to jail here for three
mouths lor contempt of tho federal
court.
Reese is a young man of much ability-
who has been stationed In the Albia,
la., district. When the 3,600 coal miners
of the Kansas district went out in sym
pathy with the Illinois, Arkansas and
Indian Territory miners he was sent
here by President Mitchell to direct
them.
An injunction was obtained by the
coal mine managers to prevent Reese
from interfering with the operations of
the Western Coal and Mining company,
whicli is practically the Missouri Pa
cific Railway company. Several weeks
ago he was cited for contempt and a
trial which lasted two days closed Mon
day.
His conviction and imprisonment have
aroused the bitterest indignation among
tho miners and it is declared by diatriot
officers hero that the national organiza
tion will take the matter np.
$7,000 SHORTIN ACCOUNTS.
Cushier of the Revenue Office at St.
Louis Missing.
St. Louis, Nov. 80.—The Po>t-Dis
patch says: Arnold Tuchschmidt, the
missing cashier of the internal revenue
department, is said to be short in his
acconuts over $7,000. A warrant was
issued for Tuchschmidt’s arrest, charg
ing him with having embezzled $7,000.
Tuchtchmldt’s books aro being thor
oughly investigated.
The Post Dispatch says it has learned
that the alleged defalcations have been
going on since last August. The in
formation specifying the shortage men
tioned was sworn to by Collector Henry
C. Grenner. Tuchschmidt, it is alleged,
made a full confession to Treasury In
spector Gavett about 0 o’clock Mouday
morning.
“I know I have done wong,” he said,
“and 1 would like to know what I
ought to do.”
"Make a clean.breast of the affair,”
replied Mr. Gavett.
Tuchschmidt was then told to wait
until the inspector had consulted with
Collector Grenner. The conference
lasted a half hour, during which tim
Tuchschmidt disappeared.
United States secret service officials
and marshals are searching for the miss
ing man, a description of whom has
been sent to the state and federal au
thorities all over the country.
GIVES LIFE TO SAVE SOUL
Sian Off ers to Die For Brother's Sal
vation and Drops Dead.
Chattanooga, Not. 80.—A private
letter from eastern Kentucky tells of s
peculiar incident in Wolfe cotinty.
Frank Miller was at the point of death
after a long illness. His brother John
was offering up a prayer for his salva
tion, having come to realize that his
death was near at hand. In the coarse
of bis prayer John Miller said:
“Oh, Lord, lam willing to give my
Hfe if it be required to save my broth
er’s soul.”
A moment later John Miller had fallen
dead. His brother died on the night of
the same day and the two were buried
in the same grave. ‘
The brother’s prayer was answered,
as Frank Miller shortly before his death
confessed faith in the Lord.
Train Crashes Into a Stage.
Hazklton, Pa., Nov. 80.—A Pennsyl
vania railroad train crashed into a stage
at Cranberry crossing today, killing
Miss Davidson of Grafton, W. Va.,
Miss Ethma Goeddecke of Bntler and
Mrs. Paisley of Harwood. Toney Ohe-
roy of this city, the driver of the coach,
was severely injured.
Louisiana Industrial Show.
Nkw Orleans, Nov. 80.—The second
Louisiana Industrial exposition will be
held at the fair grounds. It will open
Baturday, Mar 12, and will last 23 dry*.
This was decided upon at a meeting of
the executive committee held last night.
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