Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1920-03-11
AMERICANS ASKED
TO STAY At HOME
sIeHTsEERs SHOULD KEEP OUT
OF EUROPE UNTIL PEOPLE
GET ON FEET AGAIN.
BAPTISTS ENLARGE WORK
Mission Secretary Will Recommend
How EvanselistIe, Educational and
Benevolent Program Can
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.. ]. +. Love, secre-
tary of tile Foreign Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
DR.. Love, as chairman OF q commits
sion named by the Baptist rs Million
Campaign TO visit Europe and make d
survey of the mission fields there, has
just returned from five months tou;
Of the continent. He says Americans
have distributed cash with such Law.
ish hand in many places on the CONT
nent that the people have become con
vineed that every American has money
TO throw away and as soon as they
spot d citizen from this country they
proceed to oyercharge him for every.
thing he buys and every service rem
dered. Unless Americans forego
sightseeing in Europe for few years
a lot of the natives there will become
professional beggars, in DR.. Loves
opinion.
Baptists Suffered Heavily.
Along with the other religious de,
nominations Baptists suffered heavy
losses of property in Europe during the
war, Dr.-Love reports, but he found
that such Baptists as survived the wal
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 bt
formed a cooperative alignment OF tho
Baptists OF the world that will MAKE
them larger factors in world evangeli
zation 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 reporte,
TO the Foreign Mission Board. member
| of the commission found crying neet
| for money with which to meet case
demanding immediate relief and cablet
| home for funds to be employed in thi
| connection in northern France an
! Belgium. This money was prompt.
forwarded and has been distributes
through an agency set up in Paris il
conjunction with the Foreign Mission
| ary Society Of the Northern Bapt, s
! Convention. Prior to the visit OF thi
commission, missionary work by South
y Baptists in Europe has been cor
fined to Italy and Bohemia. However
The commission visited England, SEQ
land France, Belgium, Holland an
Italy, but found 1t impossible 20 &c
into Czecho Slovakia, the Balkans an
Russia at this time,
Palestine and Egypt Visited.
After the tour of Europe had be p
completed. the commission which +
cluded DR.. Z, T, Cody, editor Of tn
Baptist Courier, of Greenyille. S. {
and Dr. Everett Gill; formerly mission
ary to Italy, but now a pastor in KaI
sas city, went 70 Palestine to look Int
the missionary work there formcrl
done by the Baptists OF Southern III
nois. but recently taken over by tn
Foreign Mission Beard Of the SoutheY
Baptist Convention. A trip into FgyI
for the purpose Of studying the NOLAN
medan situation was made by the part
while awaiting ship on which to T.
turn to Italy. So far. Christianity ha
made very little inroad on Mohamm
danism anywhere DR.. Love foun'
though some Of the missionary agel
cies in Palestine have been establishe
for more than half century. He al
ticipates better chance for the Chri
tian religion there, following BIRTHS
occupation of that country.