The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-28
DOUBTS VALUE OF /
FOREIGN MISSIONS
EPISCOPAL CHURCHMAN SAYS
THAT CHARITY SHOULD
START AT HOME.
CONTRIBUTES ARTICLE
MIGHT WORK ON EDDYITEs AND
OTHERS NOT BEYOND
OUR BORDERS.
ARTICL E

Suggesting that the money might
better be spent on some 100000 be-
nighted Eddyites and others laboring
In darkness at home, Mr.. J. Staunton
Moore, prominent Church Hill mer-
chant and communicate of st. Johns
Episcopal church, wants to know wne-
Their the foreign mission business Is
not being run into the ground.
In an article in the current num-
Der of the Southern Churchman, he
says:
Are the vast sums and efforts ex-
pended in foreign missions justified
by the results? AS business man
would express 1t. Does 1t pay? Is the
game worth the candle? Is the pro-
gress of the kingdom satisfactorily
proven? For instance, our church es-
Ia blished mission fields in Africa in
1885, in China in 1896. In 1909 We
expended in Africa about 100000, in
China over $4,000. What was spent
prior to 1909 Is unknown and an I'M
ascertainabie problem, and yet after
all these years and the expenditure
of these vast sums, We have less than
three thousand communicates In At
RIGA and less than twenty-five hun
dred in China.
Too Fat to Run
Az shc" VI tAtSt AtSultdAh AdStS
and the command of our Lord Ito
begin at home), the question natural
ly suggests itself, Are we obeying our
Lords command in throwing away
this money? 1t may be reasonably
assumed that more than half of these
so-called communicates are what Is
known in mission parlance as Rice
Men" or beggars--like those who fol-
lowed Jesus when on earth for the
I - All.
good authority that during the boxer
war In China the one mission, con-
tanning about SOC so-called Christians.
all left and joined In the pillage of
the foreign DEVILS" except the cook,
and he was so fat he could not run
away.
Start at Home.
imu 'pv'wcmfi EHa-otiiB1tee e
"Jnst imagine the incalculable good
that could be done and the suffering
that could be relieved by these vast
sums in our own land among people
more worthy and more susceptible OF
reformation and Christianization. Is
the soul of an African dearer to God
than the soul OF an American negro?
After all thess efforts OF years and
waste OF means are we not Justified In
adopting the words of our Lord as an
nounced by the prophet Hosea. In ref
erence to the Ephraimites, that they
are irreclaimabie and should be 'let
| alone There are thousands of un-
converted Jews Goods chosen peo-
plep. hundreds OF thousands of Nor
mons, many Socialists and Anarchists
in our midst that need repentance
| and remission OF sins" Look at the
millions of negroes and Indians in our
| country who need evangelization,
| Why not go TO work on the see, 900
benighted Eddyites or Christian Scien-
! lists wprshif.s4s at The shrine of tfTefr
departed patron saint
| THE I-aymen's Missionary Move
! ment to convert the world In this gen.
| Grafton Is purely idealistic-a vision
| airy conception. We are told the age
| of miracles Ia past. and every think
! ing man knows that without GODS
| special providence or miraculous in
| terposition. there is no more chance
/ to accomplish this Ctopian scheme
| than there Is to bail out the Atlantic
with q teaspoon"
DIR. Clark Replies.
| Replying to Mr.. Moore's articia.
/ Rev. Dr. w. NJ Clark says editorially
| in the same issue of the Southern
! Churchman:
No. Foreign Missions are not run
/ In the ground. nor can they be, as
/ long as Christ is acknowledged as
! the head of the church and his COM
! mands recognized as supreme. Just
I so long as there is any region be-
yond." just so long the paramount
| duty of the church is to carry the
I gospel into that region; and when this
| church, or any branch OF the church
/ of God i. higgins To, .sst. d9wa ana east
up in dollars and cents the value of