The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-03-07
Americans ASKED
TO STAY AT HOME
sIeHTsEERs SHOULD KEEP OUT
or EUROPE UNTIL PEOPLE
GET ON FEET AGAIN. Ia
BAPTlSTs ENLARGE WORK
Mission Secretary viii Recommend
How Evaneeiistie, Educational and
Benevolent Program Can
Be Carried Out.

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Be Carried Out.
Americans should keep out OF Eur
ope, unless they have important bust
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.
Or. Love. as chairman Of a commits,
sion named by the Baptist IS Million
Campaign to visit Europe and make a
survey of the mission fields there, has
just returned from a five-months' tour
Of the continent. lie says Americans
/ have distributed cash with such Law.
ish hand in many places on the conti-
nent that the people have become con
WINGED that Every American has money
to throw away and as soon as they
1 spot a citizen from this country they
proceed to overcharge him for every
thing he buys and every service rem.
dered Unless Americans forego
sightseeing in Europe for few years
lot OF natives there will become
professional beggars in DR.. Loves
opinion.
6aptists Suffered Heavily.
Along with the other religious do
nominations 3apt'sts suffered heavy
losses 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 Dap-
lists in the rehabilitation of their coun.
.ries and the propagation Of the gospel.
From the contact formed with the
Baptsts 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 a. the
Baptists OF the world that will make
them larger factors in world eyangel'
ization than they have ever been be-
fore.
Garry on Relief Work.
Whileathe program which Southern
Baptists will carry on in the European
countries which they have not occu
pied before VII not be determined IN
ill 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 cableC
home for funds TO be employed In thi'
connection in northern France anC
Belgium. This money was promptly
forwarded and has been distributed
through an agency set up In Paris In
conjunction with the Foreign Mission
airy Society OF the Northern Baptist
Convention. Prior to the yisit 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 It impossible TO gel
into Czecho. sloyakia, 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.. Y. T. Cody, editor Of the
Baptist Courier. of Greenyille, S. G.
and DR.. Everett gill. formerly mission
airy 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 Ill
nois. but rec emily taken over by III,
Foreign Mission Board Of the Southern
Baptist Convention A trip into Egyp
for the purpo sc OF studying the Moham
medan situation was made by the party
while awaiting a 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 a half century HI
anticipates better chance for th'
Christian religion there. following Brit
Ish occupation OF that country