The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-24
Cbe Jeffersontan


is urged and directed to push the circulation
of 800 Foreoard" The purpose for which our
Methodist friends have established this paper
IS to whoop-up the faithful on the subject of
foreign missions. Apparently, go For
qoard" has no other object in life than to per-
slstently pump the wealth out of this country
into foreign lands. Therefore, each issue of
the paper IS supplied with letters from abroad.
Missionaries in distant fields write encourag-
ing reports of the good work which they are
doing, and thus the home folks are stimulated
into sending to China and Korea and Japan
the money that could be much more wisely
employed in these United States.
For instance, $50 Forward" had letter
from j. Arthur Thompson, of Songdo, Korea
in it's April number. Brother Thompson
wrote about meeting a Korean boy, an or
phan, who asked the missionaries to adopt
him. Says Brother Thompson
"Boys like the one mentioned above can be
kept in school for twenty five dollars a year
This aoiA feed, cz0the, and furnish books for
those a0h0 are bright, good students, but aOho
are too poor to do anything on their 0qo41 &C.
count. Their parents, being hardly able to
spare them from aoork, cannot do anytbi4g
toa0ard taking care of them aa0ay from home.
We need the main building first and will need
the industrial shops soon after in order to
pCCACO
If necessary. Above or along with buildings
we also need badly men who will put heart,
life, and mental activity into the mem of the
neqO Korea"
Now if this kind of thing is not enough to
put the average Methodist to doing some
thinking on his own hook, nothing will
Within a hundred miles of where 500 For
qOard" is published there are probably thou
sand white boys whose parents are too poor
to send them to school, and who will grow up
in all the ignorance and squalor which has
been handed down to them from their ances-
tors. In every Southern State can be found
thousands of white boys who need just such
openings as Brother Thompson wants the NJ.
E. Church South to give to the yellow boys of
Korea. At the Reinhart College and at the
Martha Berry School, twenty five dollars will
do as much for our own poor boys as that sum
will do for the Korean boys. How, in the
name of common sense, can the Southern
people be expected to board and clothe and
educate and industrially train the poor chill
dren of heathendom, when they are unable to
do their duty By their oa0m boys and girls?
The policy to which such papers as 500
F0rward' is striving to commit the people is
so unnatural that it shocks our ideas of duty,
of charity, of sane benevolence.
Until our people have established Waleska
schools and Relnhart colleges and Martha
Berry and Emma Perry schools, sufficient to
offer opportunities to every white boy and
girl in the South WE DO WONG to tax
our people with the expense of maintaining
such institutions abroad.
To feed, clothe and educate Hindu, Chi
nese and Korean children-leaving hundreds
of thousands of our own sunk in poverty and
ignorance that too often dooms them to lives
of vice and crlme-ls a sin and a shame.
The Baptists, the Methodists, and the Pres