The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-31

are sent to Europe and the United
States for instruction in English and
the sciences, but they never leave
their own country to be converted to
the Christian religion. They don't
want to become Christians; they
proved it by the Boxer uprising in
which great many missionaries
were killed. Bribery by money,
food, schools and hospitals are the
means being used to induce the Chi
nese to change their religious belief.
In Africa, the missionaries build
tine brick houses for the black heath
en-, who are used to living in the or
binary African hut. They are so
anxious to convert and educate these
negroes that they buy African Or
phans in all parts of Africa. After
all this effort in Africa, Mohamme-
,danism has won more converts in the
last fifty years than has Christi
anity.
We are sending missionaries to
France, Italy, Spain and Portugal
where church work is thoroughly Or
ganized, and every person is afforded
the opportunity to obtain an educa-
ton.
Why not make each mission sup
port itself?
Has all the teaching, made posi-
bic in the past fifty years by millions
OF American dollars, failed to teach
these heathens how to support them
selves and their schools? WHY?
The missionaries are supplied with
all conveniences. They have beauti-
full homes to live in, one in the city
during the winter, and one in the
mountains during the summer. These
homes are supplied with beautiful
furniture of every kind, which only
the well-to-do American can afford.
The dentists and doctors are sup
piled with the best of material and
implements with which to do their
work, so the heather can have the
best work that money can afford.
Some of the missionaries give vast
ly more attention to political affairs
than to preaching the gospel
Before we get too deeply interest
ed in the heather and the foreign
countries, let us look at the condi-
lions that exist in our own country.
Ii you doubt the need of enlarged
home mission effort, study the cities,
the mountain districts, the frontier.
Consider the overwhelming percent
age of non-Christian population, and
read of the tremendous emigration of
people of the earth into America. It
has been shown by statistics, that for
every heather converted there are
ten unconverted people who enter
this country.
Out of a population of 90,000,OOO
in the United States only thirty-two
million make any claim to be Chris
tians. If the missionaries are so ca
ger to convert people, why don't they
grasp the great opportunity afforded
them in this country. While the mis-
sionaries are in foreign lands bribing
the heather to become Christians,
and clothing and feeding them, there
are thousands of Christians in this
country who are begging for fuel,
food, clothes and homes. We are
neglecting our own flesh and blood
when we donate money to Foreign
Missions.
The statistical abstract of the Uni
ted States shows that there were over
$4,000 paupers in the almhouses of
this country during 1908. Statistics
also show that 81 per cent. of the in
mates of almshouses, prisons and re-
form schools in the United States are
foreigners. Wouldn't it be a great
deal better to spend the money it
takes to maintain these institutions,