The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06

| is preached hospitals are erected ~
medical missionaries trying to ADM; o09
to the 100000 non-christians of earl t Slef
an enormous task, but with the 900 Love
pitfalls, dlspensarles etc., they treated in on"
form or another in recent year 8 O00 OHe
people. All these were not conyartod wv
most of them were helped physicaI1v VI.
being told the story of Jesus were faToro anu
impressed with christianity. This is Soy Soy
a great crop Of seed, the harvest of D,bias
will be governed by and by. LII
Third, objection is raised to the nub1iL
ing work of missionaries. They seem -
forget we have our religious press +beU "
printing literature is a great educator ' aas
that all movements these days that accom-
plish anything use largely the press. NJ
1853 presses in non-christian lands owned NV
our churches publishing over 400 neriod;
Gals and thousands of books and pamnhIo+a
including the Bible, are exercising a miobtr
influence for good in those countries Inv low
ing foundation for the future and destroy
ing their ignorant corrupt and immorol
ideas.
Fourth it is claimed by some that orr
missionaries live in luxury and ease. which
claim is only made by men who know moth
ing about the salaries of these men or tbo
cost of living in those countries, or else nv
men who have been to those fields as mis-
sionaries and failed themselves either from
ING IcCh VI dUI1IIy VI 81 ave. anu returning
in order to justify their own failure have
exaggerated conditions in this work If is
no easy task to leave home country, 20 into
new climate, different food, habits. chs
toms, language and spend your life among
heather, foreign, ungrateful people, thus los
ing the business and social opportunities
the advantages of home, for a salary of $3.50
per year if you are single and $1,000 if you
are married, for this is the average salary
of our missionaries.
To review these we find they are excel
lent methods our churches have developed
under God, and marvellous progress has been
the outcome as we shall see presently
A. Anti-missiOn folks claim they object
to mission abroad because it has been a fail
ure, but study these figures: There were in
1913 24,092 missionaries in nOn-christian
lands; 2, 644, 120 members of churches; over
5000, 900 believers, not all members for
various reasOns-One main reason being the
fact that they are not received into the
church as soon as they embrace Christ like
we do in our country. They are kept and
tried, instructed and to see if they continue
to believe. Practically all the inhabited
world is today open to missionaries We
were increasing in 1912 30 per cent in Ko-
rea, 20 per cent in all the mission fields,
while we increased in the home land "a
per cent, Notwithstanding the fact that we
have one preacher to every 546 persons in
this country and one to every 275,000 in
those lands. The average annual gain from
1900 to 1850 was $500, from 1850 to 1900
27,420, from 1900 to 1910 $4,000 So you
see we are gaining rapidly instead of fail
ing. They claim our work is a failure be-
cause of the grade of converts we win. claim
ing they are not genuine. Neither are all
the church members in this country genu-
inc But they average as well there as here
for where they embrace christianity they of
ten lose their social standing and often are
disinherited by their parents, turned out of
their homes, despised, laughed at and in
some cases have been put to death, yet re-
manned true.
Let us cease, then, to object to this great
work of the church in obedience to the last
command of our Lord that is doing so much
to bring the world together, christianze
heather lands, civilize, educate and other
wise enlighten and elevate the world Rath-
er let's give to it our prayers, our sympa-
thies, our money; yea, our lives or the lives
Of our sons and daughters
Sasser, Ga. j. FRANK SMELL