The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-15
PAGE TWELVE
"HOn. T. e. WafSOn'S Theory of
Foreign Missions Exploded and
Exposed by c. iii. McCOrd,
Back-vVOOdS Local
Preacher
Preacher
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ence? Events were to prove that the work
was to be much more difficult in the home
field than among the Gentiles; and Christ
must have fOreseen this.
BY the way, how does Brother AIcCord get
rid Of that other command about selling the
garment and buying the sword Is that com
mand still binding? IF not why not? IF it
has been suspended, who did it,-and when?
If it is still in force why do the mission
aries disregard it? Have they the right to
pick and choose what part of a verse to con
slider and obey? If a missionary comes to
you, demanding a portion of the contents of
your purse, haven't you a perfect right to
say to him, Il won't give you a dollar until
you have sold your raiment and bought you
a sWord"?
1t was his garment that he was to SELL
not yours: it was his purse that he could
carry with him-nOt yours.
Brother McCord naively argues that be-
cause Christ did not forbid the taking up of
collection for mission purposes, that it is
scriptural to do it. That kind Of logic ought
not to pass at par among ten-year-old chill
dren. To argue that something is scriptural
because it isn't forbidden by the Scriptures,
is to take passage in a rudderIess ship on a
shOreless sea.
The Christian spirit which Brother Nc
Cord brings to this discussion is evidenced
by the fact that he alludes to me as "a little
dog and "a Judas Iscariot." 1t has been
one of the most amazing features of this pro
longed debate on foreign missions. that so
much ill-temper personal abuse and narrow
bigotry should have been displayed by the
champions of these modern, unscriptural
methods. Here is Mr.. McCord, assaiIing me
savagely, and undertaking to answer me all
along the line; yet at the very beginning of
of no fho+b o hoe
read my book "Foreign Missions Exposed"
Like so many others, he has fercely attacked
me without knowing my true position.
Let us see how accurate Mr.. McCord is in
stating facts: He says
"It hurts Mr. Watson mighty bad that the mis-
siOnaries can have comfortable houses to live in,
decent clothes to wear, and plenty of good food
to eat. And when they have worked themselves
down in the heated, densely populated countries,
like China and India, they go to a little noun
tain retreat to recuperate a little.
Though he lives in royal comfort, with SER
wants to wait on himself and family, and when he
gets in low state of health account of
work he goes to the mountains of North Carolina
and Virginia for rest
The married missionary with five children
njOys a regular salary of $3.50 a year. and
yearly vacation of three months. His
city home is one of elegance and luxury He
employs from three to six house servants to
minister to his comfort When he travels, he
takes several servants along to wait on him.
His three months vacation is spent in a COM
modious bungalow, beautifully situated in
the mountains, There, he is also waited on
by several servants. The purchasing power
of his salary in China, Japan, and India, is
equal to that of SIX or eight thousand dollars
in this country. DO YOU wonder that aD-
pointments in the foreign missionary service
are more eagerly SOUGHT after than FOREIGN