The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18

tinued BECAUSE OF THE EFFECTS OF 1T
WHICH WE OBSERVED ELSEWHERE"
In other words, DR.. Macarthur did see the
same hideous results of it that DR.. Blackburn
had seen!
Reader, don't you think that this eminent
minister had better have refralned from
writing to Clecl1ler the letter which appeared
in the Advocate?
In the New York World, he said the exact
opposite of what he afterwards said in two
private letters.
And Dr. Macarthur should be extremely
careful how he denies what he said to the re-
porter.
You, Reader know what happened to DR..
Paul Wakefield and DR.. S. J. Corey. They
denied the correctness of the newspaper re-
port of that Charlottesville lecture, and the
reporters laid the ta00 Doctors out. Yes; fiat
of their backs, lie Doctors Wakefield and
Corey.
Below we reprint clipping as it appeared in
the New York World:
without Exception the Ministers Denounce sys-
tenn of Individual Instruction.
Representative opinion among city clergymen
is we'll settled in opposition to individual mission
work by young women among the Chinese. Those
whose service in this field dates back twenty-five
years recall that fad which then enlisted nearly
all the prominent churches in individual work
bore no good results and subsidized because it
threatened evil. Many Of the clergymen yet active
assisted in it's encouragement and some of them
recall with satisfaction that they saved their par
1shes from it. The present feeling of the body of
the clergy is very strong for the complete elimi-
nation of the system to which Elsie Sigel sac
rificed
1T always seemed to me a bad thing said
the Rev. DR.. R. S. Macarthur, of Calvary Baptist
Church, to place young women in close re-
l CSl with Chinese Even when Calvary
L had misgivings as to the method employed.
These misgivings existed in spite of the many
precautions the church took to avoid the evils of
too friendly interest. We had Chinese Sunday
school, with regular attendance of forty to fifty
pupils, which we maintained for ten years. A
man superintendent it and there teachers,
male and female, young and old. Individual
teaching seemed to be the practice among the
churches and we adopted it,
Whether by reason Of our precautions or by
special good fortune, did not menace us in
a single instance. I confess that in the course of
the work I performed the marriage ceremony on
two occasions between Chinese and white women
At the time 1 expressed my reluctance but the
parents of the women were willing and I hardly
felt entitled to press objections. The persons
whom married did not belong to my parish.
''saw Evil in the System.
although no affiliations annoyed us, we could
not fail to observe that the system encouraged
them. When finally proposition came from the
American Baptist Home Missionary Society to
unite our pupils with the pupils of other churches
for further religious instruction by Chinese mis-
sionary who had arrived from San Francisco we
were very glad to comply. No consideration could
induce us to resume the former work. If it did
not bring misfortune to ourselves felt that it
ought to be discontinued under the old system be-
cause of the effects of it which observed else
where -
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