Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-04
AMERICANS ASKED
TO STAY AT HOME
siGHTSEERS SHOULD KEEP OUT
OF EUROPE UNTIL PEOPLE
GET ON FEET AGAIN.
BAPTiSTS ENLARGE WORK
Mission Secretary Will Recommend
How Evangeiistic, Educational and
Benevolent Program Can
Be Carried Out.

Americans should keep out of Eur.
ope, unless they ave 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.
DR.. Love, as chairman of a commits
sion named by the Baptist Is Million
Campaign to visit Europe and make a
just returned from a five-months' tour
Of the continent. He says Americans
have distributed cash with such a Law
ish hand in many places on the CONT
nent that the people have become con
vinced that Every American has money
to throw away and as soon as they
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 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
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 be
formed a cooperative alignment of the
Baptists of the world hat will make
them larger factors in world evangel-
ization than they have aver 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 h commission found crying need
for non 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.
airy Society of the Nor bern 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 it impossible to get
into Czecho-S 1ovakia, the Balkans and
Russia at this time.
Palestine and Egypt Visited.
After the tour Of Europe had been
completed, the commission, which in.
Guided DR.. T.. T. Cody, editor OF the
Baptist Courier, of Greenville, s. c.,
and DR.. Everett Gill, formerly mission.
airy to Italy, but now a pastor in Kan,
sas City, vent to Palestine to look into
the missionary work there, formerly
done by the Baptists of Southern I'LL.
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 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 beer established
for more than a half century. He
anticipates a better chance for the
Christian religion there. following Brit.
ish occupation of that country.