The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-06-24

from flies and mosquitoes, how to escape the
summer complaint, how to guard against
contagious diseases, and how to raise the
babies?
How many Of our churches teach needful
lessons to young women engaged to be mar
ried, and how many hold daily and weekly
clinics?'
Another thing: If Chinese woman can
support herself and family ON STE month,
why does the unmarried lady missionary
have to have $50 month, and fine house
to live IN, free of rent-and yearly yaca-
tion~of three months, on full payg
Then, when Miss Emma marries mis-
sionary, and their combined salaries jump to
81 200 year, why does Mrs Emma have to
have 500 a year. extra, for every baby born
to her?
The Chinese woman works steadily in the
mission, bending her tired back all day long,
as she embroiders, and does other fancy
needle-worz: she is paid 1921. O0) twenty
one dollars a year, for her labor, which is
far more than Chinese merchants would pay
her.
She supports herself and her family, on
this S21.00 year, paid at the mission.
Yet, Miss Emma Lester, the missionary,
must not only be paid 5000 year, By you,
but you must provide palace in the city,
and mountain bungalow, free of rent, for
Miss Emma to live In, and change about
And when Miss Emma marries, she must
have nearly five times as much extra allow
ance, for each child, as the Chinese woman
can get for herself and her qchoze fana1zu!
No wonder the American girls and young
preachers are clamoring for employment con
the foreign field
The foreign field is clover patch, and
the young folks have found it out
Not long ago, Dr. John J. Mullowney,
graduate Of the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School, returned from China, where
he had gone as medical missionary
He taught the science of medicine four
years IN North, China, and was also in
charge of the Hopkins Memorial Hospital.
at Pekin.
DIR. Mullowney abandoned the work. and
he gave out his reasons for it.
Please take the time to read what this en-
hghtened and unlmpeachable witness testi-
hes dgaen8t the present system:
sAzsz=zssszzz@=szzszszz==s 7~1-@-~s~7-7----r-s-
While do not believe in taking the real Mes
sage OF Christ to China, cannot feel that it is a
religious duty practical undertaking for us to
take thousands of dollars annually from the com
mon people of these United States to help build
in China a lot Of institutions of higher education
which may be useful from the standpoint of learn
Ing but which are not an essential of the Message
or CHRIST cannot think that it is our religious
DUTY to beg the hard-earned money of our people
IN America for the purpose of building up insti-
buttons of education which are to compete with
each other and with Chinese Government institu-
tions-because it is both unnecessary and foolish
1t is unnecessary because the Chinese nation is
perfectly able to educate it's own people and is
doing it in its own way, which is the best way for
them 1t is foolish for US to think that we know
how to educate the Chinese better than the Chinese
themselves, and it is foolish to try to do for them
what we have not done for ourselves
In short, have come to feel that we are pre-
tending to do what we have not done for ourselves
and we are pretending to be what are not,
which is expressed in one Word-hypocrisy.