The Little River news., 1920-03-17
AMERICANS ARE ASKED
 TO STAY ar HOME
Sigltseers Should Keep Out Of Europe Until People Get on Their
 Feet Again.

Americans should keep out of Eur ope, unless they have important busi- ness there, until Europeans have had an opportunity to get on their feet again, declares Dr. J. F. Love- secre tary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
 Dr. Love, as chairman of commis- sion named by the Baptist 75 Million Campaign to visit Europe and make survey of the mission fields there, has just returned from a five-months' tour of the continent He says Americans nave distributed cash with such lav ish hand in many places on the conti- nent that the people have become con yinced that Every American has money to throw away and as soon as they spot Q citizen from this country they proceed to overchafge him for every thing he buys and every service ren- dered. Unless Americans forego sightseeing in Europe for a few years a lot of natives there will become professional beggars in Dr. Loves opinion.
 Baptists Suffered Heavily.
 Along with the other religious de- nominations Baptists suffered heavy osses of property in Europe during the war, Dr. Love reports, but he found that such Baptists as survived the war remained loyal to their convictions and they are now ready to welcome the aid and cooperation of American Bap- lists in the rehabilitation of their coun- tries and the propagation of the gospel. From the contact formed with the Baptists of the chief countries of Eur ope by these representatives of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Love believes there will ultimately be formed a cooperative alignment of the Baptists of the world that will make them larger factors in world evangel- ization than they have ever been be- fore.
 Carry on Relief Work.
 While the program which Southern Baptists will carry on in the European countries which they have not occu, pied before will not be determined un- til after the commission has reported to the Foreign Mission Board members of the commission found crying need for money with which to meet cases demanding immediate relief and cabled home for funds to be employed in this connection in northern France and Belgium. This money was promptly forwarded and has been distributed through an agency set up in Paris in conjunction with the Foreign Mission ary Society of the Northern Baptist Convention Prior to the visit of this commission, missionary work by South ern Baptists in Europe has been con- fined to Italy and Bohemia. However, the commission visited England Scot land. France, Belgium. Holland and Italy, but found 1t impossible to get into Czecho- Slovakia, the Balkans and Russia at this time.
 Palestine and Egypt Visited.
 After the tour of Europe had been completed, the commission, which in, cluded Dr. z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier, of Greenville, s. C., and Dr. Everett Gill, formerly mission ary to Italy. but now pastor in Kan sas City, went to Palestine to look into the missionary work there, formerly done by the Baptists of Southern lllt nois, but recently taken over by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. A trip into Egypt for the purpose of studying the Moham' medan situation was made by the party while awaiting ship on which to re- turn to Italy. So far, Christianity has made very little inroad on Mohamme- danism anywhere, Dr. Love found, though some of the missionary agen- cies in Palestine have been established for more than half century. He anticipates a better chance for the Christian religion there, following Brit