The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-11-06
Brethren. Have You Dome Your
Duty i'm Feeding, Clothing,
Housing, Physicing, Nursing,
Educating and Musically
Training the Chinese?
9 EARCH your consciences, brethren.
- Put yourself on trial, as it were.

Consider yourself under arrest, and that
stern old Judge has asked you what you have
to say why sentence should not be passed on
you for not doing your duty by the Japs, the
Chinks, the Hottentots, the Fiiians, the
Hawaians, the Terra-del- Fuegans, the Esqui-
maux, the Rooshians, the Prooshians, the
Pottawatamies the Hidalgoes, the Guinea
niggers, the Zulus, the Dyaks, the Koreans,
the Burmese, the Chinooks, the Tibetans the
Ceylonese, the Oleanders, the Chipmunks,
the Hyderangeas, and the wild men Of Bor-
neO.
Yes, BRETHREN search your conscences and
then feel of your pocket-bo book.
Brother r. j. WIflingham is about to get
loose again. Brother William Smith shows
signs of restlessness Brother w B. Crump-
ton is handing out his dope, with freedom
which indicates that your money is paying
the printers.
A missionary collection was taken up, in
one Of the gorgeous New York churches the
other day, and the offerings were so liberal
that it took three preachers to tote the money
to the rear.
By the time that lucre finally gets to the
heather, one preacher will be amply able to-
tote it.
We have to pay our writer's, you knog
Also, our printers. Likewise. stenographe 4.
clerks, assistants, deputy clerks, deputy ASST
tants, secretaries, assistant secretaries, type-a
writer's, proofreaders, copy holders, and so
forth.
In the meantime, | call your attention Ito
the following, which you might read with
profit, while you are waiting for Brother r.
j. Willingham to roll up:
Bishop G. P. Anderson of St. Paul's EJipis-
copal Church, Chicago, said in speaking to
the Church club
"I doubt if you could call this Christian
nation. 1t is a debatabIe question I doubt if
even the church of today believes in the extension
OF the principles for which it is supposed to stand
In the Christian census many people put down
their names as adherents of churches from which
they had long since detached themselves. When
we add to these the number that professedly
belong to no church whatever, and compare this
number with the total population, we cannot be
too sure that we are Christian nation
Towns Without Churches
There are in Southern Illinois alone from thirty
to fifty towns of from 200 to 500 inhabitants that
nave no church whatever. They have no Sunday
school, no religious exercises, nothing to remind
them that there is a Heaven. And yet they call
themselves Christians.
1.-THE pagan Mohammedans Worship once every
day and never drink. The Southern Illinois
Christians drink every day and never pray
Ihe nlggardly aspect of the church toward
nome missions is the cause. Mismana gement and
neglect Of business methods have been prominent
features in all the home work. Here there is no
glamOr, no romance The missionary bishops and
missionary clergymen of the middle west get lit
tie or no help and thanks or appreciation for
their labOrs.
AS you go west religion sits more lightly on
Che people than 1T does on the people of the east
or the old world.
An Age of Exposure.
eve are living in age of exposure and peo-
pie sit back and think because many wrongs are
being uncovered that they better Wouldn't
it be better to plant Christianity at the roots; to
have it waiting the agricultural invaders of the
new countries; to have original church there
to receive the people when they come? The love
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