The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-19

maze, as any m0mDr OF Ln1S MISSION
can testify who has heard his
speeches in Mission meetings for two
or three years back.
Another signer of this letter is DR..
T. 0. Hearn. Here is letter he wrote
me after 1 had written him telling
him that I had asked the Board to
request him and the others for proof:
Dear Bro. McCrea: Your letter
Of the 4th inst, has been received. I
have been quiet, but interested, in
what you have had to say about our
methods of work.
For the most part I agree with
what you have said in your letters,
and my dissenting is in regard to two
particulars. First, there is danger
of many who read your letters decid-
ing that Mission Schools have been a
failure, which [ think is not true. In
the second place, while [ am exceed
ingly sorry that we are not pushing
On faster in regard to se1f-support,
fear that many who read your let
ters will minimize or possibly lose
sight of what is really being done
along this line.
Remembering the relation which
we bear to our Board and Southern
Baptist Convention, in my judgment
it was not wise to attack, in the way
you did, policies to which they have
committed themselves Of course
everyone has a right to his opinions
and to express them, but | think it
would have been better if you had
begun in a quiet way to work out
your principles in your station, in
the Mission, and by writing to the
Board. And 1 think it was not a
good thing for our cause to hand
over your letters to Mr.. Watson as
you did. This in short explains my
feelings in regard to your letters,
and gives the reasons why [ signed
the paper.
With love and best wishes, I am,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) t. o. HEARN.
This letter shows that Bro. Hearn
acknowledges that my criticisms are
"fOr the most part" true, but that
he simply disagrees with my method
in getting these truths before South
ern Baptists. DIR. Hearn knows as
we'll as | do that I tried to bring this
subject up for discussion in our Mis-
sion meeting a year ago last Febru-
y
man in the midst of my speech and
was denied the right of freedom of
speech in a Baptist assembly, The
Chairman who did this and who
acknowledge afterwards in public
that he had exceeded his authority,
is the same brother I understand who
originated this letter Of dissent.
Another signer of this letter was
Bro. w. H. Sears. He also appears
to be undergoing a change Of heart
for only few days ago he circulated
through the Mission a letter from
Rev. E. G. NICHOLS, Sec. of the Eng
lish Baptist Mission of this province,
and which most significantly corro-
borates my criticisms of higher edu-.
cation, into which Southern Baptists
are being asked to put such large
sums of money Mr.. Nichols wrote
as follows:
LAS regards to the Union College;
there is one thing on which 1 think
you have not yet been able to make
true estimate. No one who has not
been in this higher educational work
can tell what strain it is to keep
up a foreign staff When you are
once in it, you must go willy nilly.
I should be grieved if it ever came
about that the relation of your evan
gelistic and EDUCATIONAL work should
be reversed, as it might inevitably
do. Do not risk your fine heritage of
prosperous evangelistic work. Your
Chinese doubtless could not resist