The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-03-19
A BAPTIST DEACON WRITES
ABOUT FOREIGN MISSIONS.

tlstS OF Georgia, DO you want to be
martial laWed and shot?"
Well no, Bro. Watson. Neither do
we intend to be. Your quotation
from the Index does call for more
talk, to be sure. We had thought
that all men had learned some sense
ON the question Of missions ere this,
but we were mistaken. How it is
that you have the patience to keep
on telling, and proving, and explain
ing the foreign mission fraud is be-
yond our comprehension.
The men who publish the Conven-
ton Board, or Foreign Mission Or
gan IN Georgia speak right out like
men having authority, don't they?
Your churches Of Georgia say they
are responsible for all the objects of
the Georgia Baptist Convention. And
remember Georgia Baptists, all in
cludes the little item of $4,000,
more or less, for missions.
Brother Baptists of Georgia, the
writer Of this card has been a mem
Der of an obscure country church for
forty odd years, and a sort of Deacon
most Of that time. What we will try
to say is, we think, the sentiment of
ninety-nine per cent of the Baptist
in the country churches. We abso-
lutely will not take orders from the
Southern Convention, or any OTTER.
The Boards and Conventions. we
maintain, are not creatures Of ours
So long as we are privileged to have
and to read Gods word in our homes
and churches, we will follow it's pre-
cepts as God gives US knowledge to
understand. We haven't surrendered
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die first. Do you hear?
Mr.. Index, your Brother Baptist
can't set a hearing in your paper.
IF we are not mistaken Bro. Watson,
Editor Of the peoples organ, pro-
posed at the outset to discuss the
matter Of modern mission methods,
through either your Index or his JEFF
fersonian, and you refused. Then is
when we dropped you. Your modern
methods wouldn't bear Investigation,
We thought then, what We know now.
Discuss? No, not us. We can't,
you. seem to say. But wen send for
Ellis Ellis can fix it. He's an ex-
pert. He'll get us out Of all this
trouble Ellis came, and he went,
and doubtless he is not coming
again.
But for the peoples organ, Mr..
Watson's Jeffersonian, the great
common people in our. Southland
= could not get q hearing anywhere,
neither in church or State matters.
There are two things Of which we
would like to speak, but we can't
for the lack of language to express
out thoughts.
First, the love and respect we
hold for the man who has fought, is
still lighting, and will continue to
fight our battles. We can only say,
God bless you Bro. Watson.
And lest we forget, we say, yes
Mr.. J. B. Baker Of Lump1in, Ca,
yes, we will be enc of the ten thous-
and you speak Of we don't know
you Mr.. Baker, but you have heart
of gold.
Language fails us again when we
try to write or speak of a lot of
grafters trying to lord it over the
churches. No church has any right
to shirk the payment of these debts.
Don't that sound big?
Well, we amt going to pay the
Boards debts, and there you are, We
don't care to buy any more little
Doras, don't need them in our bust
ness. We have several million too
many niggers already. Another
houseboat, did you say? at ten
thousand dollars. Well, we just
can't help you on the boat question
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