The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
He Says Missionaries Should
Be Sent to The Rich
GOSPEL is MADE FOR ALL
In Address Before Home Mission Con.
ference Senator Smith Creates
Sensation and Asks for Fair
Show for Every Man.

Charlotte. N. c.. October 20.-With an
address from United States Senator e.
d. Smith of South Carolina on 'eThe In
dustrial Development in the South and
the Cotton Mill as an Economic Problem"
the home mission conference rounded out
day and night calculated to shed light
on the question of the relations of the
church to the industrial situation Sena-
tor Smiths address was the feature of the
days sessions. He made an earnest plea
for the cotton min operatives, whom he
characterized as men and women as ripe
and as fit for Gods kingdom as the
Weather classes among which the church
is working. The field, he declared, is
ready for the harvesters. The church
should go to them, not with the patroniz-
Ing hand of charity but with the broad
spirit of craftsmanship, which recog nizes
their possibilities and affords opportunity
for legitimate expression.
II bring no railing accusation against
the church. but 1t seems to me it is time
the millionaires had missionaries
sent to them. You emphasize the petty
vices of the poor and doff your hats to the
scarcely yelled crime which stalks in
silk and gold If the church would cry
aloud and convict the thief who steals
railroad as quickly as the one who steals
a penny, the situation would be remedied.
The gospel as | understand 1t, means
good tidings of great JOY which shall be to
all people, and that does not mean theo-
logical dissertations either.
HfsCf,,Fef .~a.,A reof Hell, &ho-o x.,t,
needed it and His gospel means giving
| every man a fair show"
! Senator Smiths remarks created mild
sensation. Speakers who followed him
| urged the need of larger gifts for the
prosecution of the work in mill settlement
and more appointments of ministers to
these fields.
The sessions closed tonight with an
| address by DR.. ]. C. Kilgo, president of
Trinity college, who expressed lack of
sympathy for the man who makes a
business of stirring up sympathy for
overworked children. He declared that
he felt more concern for the children of
| the rich who are brought up in Incidence,
| than for the people whose necessities
| demand that they work their children
over time. He rasped the church peo-
Pile who draw class distinctions and who
shun the honest toiler. at Is no more
| honorable to sit in the United States
| Senate" he declared, than 1t Is to shovel
coal"
Conditions among the people who work
| in the cotton mills Of the south are much
better than when these people lived on
| farms is the consensus of reports made
| at today's session of the conference. Re-
ports containing careful analysis of the
present conditions of mill employees were
made by representative of the board
| of missions of each of the districts of
| the five southern states represented.
| Their reports also indicate great progress
| is being madp In church work and In the
| welfare work of the church among the
| mill operatives. A movement is about
| to be launched for educational evangelism
| in mill villages.
Much interest was evinced in the re-
ports of the IL conference representatives
| by the delegates. During the afternoon
| the conference listened to the Rev. j. A
| Baldwin of Charlotte and the Rev. DR..
| w. r. Vase of Greensboro, N. c., who
delivered an address on Methods of
Work, Institutional and Educational"