The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-01
Bitter Attack On Tom Watson, i'm
Southern Baptist Convention


Alabama, "bitterly scores Tom Watson
according to the story published in The
Metropolis, of jacksonville Florida.
DR. Cox also denounced 'the commercial
men"
But I want you to see for yourself what
this meek and lowly follower of the meek
and lowIy Christ said to the applauding dele
gates in the Southern Baptist Convention:
Watson Attacked.
Watson was rakeds over the Goals by Rev. DR..
w. j. E. Cox of Mobile during discussion of
Pagan Missions
After describing his visit to mission stations in
China and Japan, the speaker said:
81 have something to say about Tom Watson, Of
Atlanta, for his attacks in his magazine foreign
Missions
" No, he is from Thomson Ca, interrupted a
delegate, evidently an Albanian.
Well, from Thomson" said the speaker.
"This man, Watson, he continued, Gin recent
issue Of his magazine made unfounded attack
on foreign missions. He stated that missionaries
gave the Chinese So hats in order to make them
become Christians.
cts lie.
"Watson also said that the missionaries gave
the Chinese clothing and food in order to make
them become Christians. That is also untrue
Absolutely Without Clothes
"In many places in China where I visited saw
Cinnamon who were absolutely without clothes
and did not have as much string to hang
around their necks. 1t is not true that our mis-
siOnaries gave them clothes in order that they
might profess Christianity but certainly they
needed something to in order to attend Sum
day school,
DR.. Cox said that he had met a man on
Pacific steamer who had told him he had use
for missions but admitted he had not visited
single missionary or mission station in China.
Commercial Men at Fault.
He said there another with whom he
had talked who had stated that if 80 per cent of
the commercial travellers in China from foreign
lands were drowned in the sea it would be far
better for missions.
commercial men usually immoral and they do
not come into contact with issionares unless to
hear themselves rebuked for their immoraties.
Consequently they hate the missionaries
'Thats rght-give it to them,' shouted dele
gate as the speaker concluded.-From The Me-
tropolis.
How much good was done to Christianity
by that bear garden racket?
[ have never said that s. plug hats we're
sent to China.
The Baltimore Sun, last year. published the
story about the shipment of plug hats to
africa. The missionaries have discovered that
naked negroes are made as proud as peacocks
by the gift of these silk tiles, which they wear
with intense pleasure. Therefore, the mis-
sonaries use these hats, to put the negro men
in a receptive state of mind to hear the glad
tidings about Christ.
The Baltimore Sun is paper of the
highest standing; and it would not have
printed such story, were it not true
1t is true; and DR.. Cox could have easily
obtained the verifcation, had he been fair
enough to apply to me for it.
To misreprcsent the statement, as he did;
and then denounce it as "a lie" was coarsely
outrageous. / wonder why no member of that
Convention had the nerve to correct DR.. Cox,
and to save the Baptist denomination from
the injury which such rabid and untruthful
TRADES, as has, infict upon the church How