Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-28
OUTLINES IMPORTANCE
OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
Rev. X. W. Patton Delivers Striking
Address In St. PauIs
Church.
AMERICAS DUTY TO CHINA
Says Those Who Assert Unbelief in
Foreign Missions Have Not InyeS-
tigated the Subicct-Work OF St.
Johns College in Shanghai.


~ don't believe In foreign missions;
we ought to spend our money for those
at home is Il statement made by Il
person who has not spent an hour OF
his life in examining into the facts Of
what foreign missions are accomplish
ing" said Rev. K. W. Patton, of At
lanta, last night in ST. Paurs Epsco-
pal Church, at the missionary mission
held under the auspices of the Epsco-
pal Churches OF Richmond.
The Christians i'll Richmond to-day
are the fruits of foreign missionaries.
licarkcn back to the time when Jesus
of Galilee was walking in the streets
of Jerusalem. There was little tribe
OF savagcs, yellow haired and blue-eyed,
who were running over the desoiate
places in Northern Europe. These for
cign people were the Anglo Saxons,
the ancestors of the people in this
congregation tonight
During the lifetime Of Christ they
were barbarians. They practiced piracy,
by and robbery by land Their
doctrine was that the man who could
WELD the biggest war club and was
the strongest in the chase had the
greatest right to survive.
MISSIONS RAISED OUR
ANCESTORS FROM SAvAGERY
AS an example OF their religion in
devination on the course to take in
the chase after game or to ,go into
battle. they selected the most bcauti-
full maiden in the tribe. and placed her
In Il wicker basket at which the war
riorS shot arrows into her Quvering
body. The blood that trickled from
her wounds and found it's way out of
the basket. In whatever direction II
flowed, determined the fighting men or
hunters in the direction they were to
Eo. That was Just one example from
their religion.
Then came the missionaries 10 them
Brave pioneers and church men they
were TO so away from civilization to
bring the word Of Jesus Christ to those
savaGeS in foreign lands
60 We int" all the world was the
command given by Christ to his amos
Ties That meant that his teachings
were not to be restricted 10 the area
around which Christ lived and taught.
Christianity is not provincial.
we should send out foreign mission
aries to China. IL we do not save
China, then China will destroy usA
Whenever hear a man say that he
doesn't believe in foreign missionaries.
think OF man with Il shriveled soul
He has not investigated the facts
we must learn that it is the duty
OF the people Of Richmond to bring
china into the fold. China will never
be brought in unless the people of
America go into the highways and hy-
ways TO bring her in. The railroads
ana steamship lines are bringing US
nearer To China every year
CHINA PRESENTS MENACE
UNLESS TT is CHRISTIASIZED
Suppose that China sent zoo, 600
OF her inhabitants TO Richmond. Is il
not a fact that we would be over
whelmed and Christianity effaccd un-
less we made some EFFORT to bring the
Chinaman up TO our level:
w hen was in san Francisco | ask :
ed AN Irish policeman there was II
true that there WAS much wickedness
IN that city as was reported and he
replied that there was IT is Shang
hai. he said. Jerking his thumb to-
ward that distant city. The wicked
ness creers In from there. Can't YOU
see mat there is need for us to bring
the Word OF Christ 10 these people?
millionaire in Atlanta told me
fha' he did not believe in foreign mis-
slons. | told him that IL he didn't. then
the STANDARD oil Company and the steel
Trust did, for they were sending their
missionaries Into China to educate the
people there To use kerosene in lamus
and TO use steel tools
Thc church is the most unbusincss-
IKE organization in existence And
why should ii be? One or the reasons
Tor TN" existence OF this mission is IN
l.
YOU who are Christians to believe in
foreign missions.
GENERALLY the man who saw he
doesn't believe In foreign missions s
also unacpuaintcd with the fact thar
out OF every 100 persons in Richmond
only forty-threc belong 10 any churcb.
mat the amount of money given IN
foreign missions Is but cents per can
lth. The banner church in the United
states is at Wilmington, " c., which
gives per capita contribution OF %
cents"
TELLS OF WORK or
ST. JOHNS COLiEGE
Or. Patton then spoke of the great
work that 81. Johns College In Shang-
hai was doing. II is csta hlished by the
Episcopal Church aud has 500 students
whereas If sufficient money were avail
able 1t could rs easily have 5000. lie
SAID That the representative from China
AT the Court of ST. James in England
ana at the court of the Kaiser in Ger