The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-02
15be Jeffersonian

Oh I1SuC Here among us, HOW 20 OOe HI0OW
aohat goes on IN Japan, china and Imdlag"
The Cairo clergymen deny that Elsie Sigel
was a missionary. But she a0as, until her
converts" dragged her to perdition. Her
father, her mother, her uncle, her aunt, all
stated that she chose the mission field as her
life-work; and all the newspapers SO stated.
The Cairo ministers declare that Rev. Paul
Wakefield lied. How do they know that? He
was talking about mission work, and he
claims to be one of eve Missionaries. 1t so
happens that Parson Wakefield is powerfully
corroborated by other missionaries.
Miss Helen f. Clark, a missionary of seven
teen years experience, and director of the
Helen Clark Mission, said in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin of June 80, 1909:
"White women must leave the lives of China
men alone For seventeen years have urged the
folly of that. All about me l have seen the ruin
and wrecked homes. Case after case that paral
les Elsie Sigels, with the exception of the tragic
ending. But even death is better than some
things
To the same effect, spoke Mrs. Florence
Todd, the oldest of the New York Chinese
missionaries.
Rev. Towson actually has the hardihood to
introduce Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur, one Of the
most respected Baptist ministers of New
York. as witness for the defense, in the mat
ter of individual instruction of single China
men by single white girls, when, in fact, DR..
Macarthur was one of the strongest witnesses
against the system.
DR.. Macarthur, after saying that he had al
ways considered the system bad thing, did
state that, by taking precautions in his Sun
day-schOol, nothing worse occurred than two
marriages of Cinnamon to their teachers But
men of the world will understand very we'll
that many of the girls might have drifted into
improper relations with their separate pupils,
without the fact ever coming to the lnowl-
edge of DR.. Macarthur, or of the public. It
isn't every wronged missionary that is MUIR
dered. In Chinatown lives many degraded
white girl, sinking quietly deeper and deeper,
IN moral mire, and attracting no attention
from the newspapers.
DR.. Macarthur said to the reporter of the
New York World, in the interview from
which MIR. ToWson seems to quote
eff the World would employ it's great facil-
tiles for gathering news to obtaining q list OF
the mission girls ruined By Chinese a0hom t5ey
ooere teaching it would perform service for
which all the churches would be supremely
grateful There haze been enough cases of
that kind to fill an entire page IN the paper.
That list would be read everywhere as am uao-
publication would so sh0ch the country as to
correct the evI at which it would aim Moth
ing short Of some such exposure qOiU stop 1t.
The people need to be Mortified I shall be en-
symapathy aoith amy measure, hoaOe0er Shoch-
ing, TO SAFE orr y0u'og a00noer1 from q continu-
0noe Of this INFANY, and with what feeble
force have [ Will speak for it."
Reader, what think you of the Christianity
and the honesty of a missionary fanatic who
would pretend that the great Baptist preach
er, DIR. Macarthur, IS q aoit1oess against Wat
son, when Watson is doing the very thing