Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-03-18
AMERICANS ASKED
TO STAY At HOME
sleHTsEERs SHOULD KEEP OUT
OF EUROPE UNTIL PEOPLE
GET ON FEET AGAIN.
BAPTlsTs ENLARGE WORK
Mission Secretary WIN Recommend
How EvanseIistie, 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.. 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 rs 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. He says Americans
+, have distributed cash with such a Law
ish hand in many places on the conti-
nent that the people have become con
vinced that Every American has money
to throw away and as soon as they
spot 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 natives there will become
professional beggars In DR.. Loves
opinion.
Raptists 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 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 viii ultimately be
formed cooperative alignment of the
Baptists Of the world that viii 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 IN
til after the commission has reported
to the Fofeign 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
airy 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 it 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.
eluded Or. 2. T. Cody, editor Of the
Baptist Courier, of Greenville, s. c.,
and DR.. Everett GIL, formerly mission
airy to Italy, but now pastor in Kan
gas City. went to Palestine to look into |
the missionary work there, formerly |
done By the Baptists Of Southern iii.
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 been established
for more than a half century. He
anticipates a better chance for the
Christian religion there, following Brit
ish occupation Of that country.