The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-07-13
PAGE SIX
"A Baptist Layman's Appeal TO
the Clergy of ALI Protest
ant Churches.

Establishments IN America.
The Mission Societies send out, to lands
across the seas, teachers of blacksmithing,
tarpenterlng, chair-making, type setting, cab
network, medicine, dentistry, hygiene, music,
and mechanical arts
The churches do not furnish anything of
that sort in America.
Missionary doctors rove and roam the
foreign country, looking for the neglected
woman in childbirth, for the abandoned VIC
tim of contagious disease, for the bed-ridden
Sufferer from fever, for all the afflicted who
need and will receive the merciful ministra-
lions of organized benevolence.
The churches are not engaged in that kind
of divine work in America
In the far East, the Christians of the West
build the school house, the college, the kinder
garten, the boarding -dormitory, the Orphans
home, the hospital, the widows refuge, the
drug store, the gymnasium, the chronological
institute, the palace for the preacher, and the
palace for the doctor; and the Christian West
throws open the doors of all these sumptious
establishments, and cries aloud
"Enter and abide: dwell and enjoy: it shall
cost you nothing!"
The missionary loves this fascinating
Eastern life with its pentude Of servants at
40 cents day; its bountiful food at ridicu-
1ously low prices; its ease, comfort, lazy 60
as-you-peaSe, with no critical congregation
TO find fault, no bishop to reprimand, no con-
ference or association to haul him over the
GOALS No wonder college boys, like DR..
Poteat's sons, hasten to the East, before their
diplomas are dry: they hnoao what a fine pro-
fession it is-this foreign mission trade.
Likewise the doctor, the Dentist the nurse,
the apothecary, the teacher: it's a splendidly
good business, and they flock into it, for that
reason So crafty eager are the Boards to
keep all the positions filled, that the mission
cries are not eUe72 required to be members of
the church!
Of course [ don't mean the preachers:
mean the missionary teachers, doctors, dent
lists, etc. For instance, in the Methodist
School at Lucknow, India, there are IA
teachers and of these do not believe in
Christianity at all.
This statement was made by Prof Don
Woods, in talk he made in the Methodist
Church. at Missoula, Montana, on April %,
1916 The Professor himself teaches Athlet-
les in the Lucknow School.
Isn't it shame, isn't it fraud, isn't it a
cheat and swindle, for our missionary
Boards to be bowling themselves hoarse for
more money, when their purpose is to con-
tinue and expand such utterly unpatriOtic and
rn-SCriptural work as this?
Yet, you cannot persuade them to listen to
reason Partly fanatical and partly mercen-
airy, the Boards the UNCONVENTIONAL papers,
and the foreign missionaries are inter2oched,
banded together by a community of interest
They are organized: the congregations are
not: hence, the organization preys at will
Upon the helpless church members, who are
made to feel that they will be false to God,
# they cease to rob their own children, and
their neighbors' children, for the benefit of
this interlocked Foreign Missions imposture.
Robbing their own children? Yes. Rob