The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-23
Our Baptist Board of Foreign
Mission Begins the Publi-
casiGn OF a MAGAZINE.
PAGE EIGHT

0nllll, enters the Journalistic held, With
16-page magazine named The Bulletin
That's what the pope's Knights of Column
bus call theirs and | am sorry to have two
such Bulletins coming at the same time
However, DR.. Smith failed to consult me
about it, and | reckon [ can stand it, if he
can.
am not sure that he has the right to use
our mission funds to run a magazine with, for
the money was given with the intent to stop
the heather from sitting in darkness making
soup out Of bird-nests, and eating rice with
a stick.
1t was eminently proper for Doctor Smith
to explain why he uses our mission money
IN support of a magazine, and / give you his
remarks in FULL
The matter in this Bulletin is for the exclusive
use OF pastors. 1t is not sent out under any
other form. We desire thorough The Bulletin to
speak earnest words to our pastors who are
Gods chosen leaders Of the people. Please read it
through carefully and keep it for We hope
that it may give help in preparing sermons
and addresses for the great foreign mission
paien. We have tried to put in some things that
may be quoted and many illustrative incidents
which the pastors may adapt to their own use.
We are enclosing some tracts which may be
useful for the campaign. We will be glad to send
to the pastors any number of these tracts that
they may be able to to good advantage. In
addition to these, have "Medcal Missions
an excellent tract by Dr. R. w. Hooker; Trial of
the Robbers by Franklin L. Riley and good
tract each field In ordering tracts, indicate
those that you wish sent and the number OF EACH
May God abundantly bless His servants in this
campaign, which is OF immense and vital impor-
tance to our foreign mission cause.
So you see, We give, say 81 600 to Foreign
Missions, and Brother Smith uses, say one
tenth of it, to print stuff which begs YOU for
more.
Then when you respond, and give $4,000
Brother Smith takes, say tenth of the larger
amount, and spends that for literature which
begs you for So 900.
Endless chain, you notice.
On page 3 of his Bulletin, Brother Smith
1unges at Inc IN the following vigorous style:
Slandering the Missionaries.
1t has always been one Of the chief methods Of
the enemies of foreign missions to oppose the
cause by slandeTing the missionaries. These de-
voted workers are far away and cannot defend
themselves. 1t seems easy for some people to
believe almost anything that is said about them.
This favorite plan Of nti-mission propaganda has
been extensively used in recent times Echoes OF
it have come to us from many quarters
1t is charged that the missionaries are extrava-
giant, luxurious, selfish wastefuI of mission funds,
in word, that they lot of grafters. 1t is
also claimed that their salaries already too large,
are worth many times in mission lands in
purchasing powers, than the same amounts are
worth in this country. According to these enemies
OF the work. the missionaries live in palatial
MONIES, keep retnUeS OF needless servants, ride in
automobiles and have every luxury that could be
suggested.
Everyone who has come in contact with our
own missionaries know that they are conse-
Grated, self-sacrfcing and devoted company of
men and women. They not perfect and they
make mistakes like the rest of US, but their de-
~Votion and self-sacrifce would put many Of us to
shame.
First-hand facts from many sources have been
published, which show that it costs more to live
in mission fields than it does to live at home. A
recent letter from of the finest young lady
missionaries in China shows that necessities pur-
chased in China cost from $50 to 200 per cent.
than the things cost in the United