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My! Those foreign sheep need lots of
shepherds, don't they?
Flow many Methodists do they claim in
China, after laboring there since 1846?
Only 5.025. Good gracious! After 69
years of expensive effort, only five thousand
converts in that vast empire of four hundred
million people? Yet how often and often
and OFTEN have you read and heard about
the glorious awakening in China, the new
China, the China that was stampeding to
Christ?
In addition to the missionaries, the Board
employs 596 teachers for the schools and col
leges, where 12.000 heathen children are be
ing educated at the expense of Southern
Methodists.
I lie Report doesn't give the number of the
' doctors, but as it shows nine hospitals, and
10,630 patients in one of those (with 638
surgical operations not counted) we can fairly
assume that each hospital has a staff of at
least six doctors and nurses.
I hasten to say that none of these Meth
odist doctors are sent to Persia. Somehow,
that unfortunate country has fallen from
grace with Warren Candler.
How much money have the Southern Meth
odists tied up in these foreign churches?
A million dollars in round numbers.
How much in the hospitals and school
houses?
The figures are not given.
The Report shows that the Board paid in
round numbers half a million dollars, last
year, for what?
To build houses, furnish medicine, main
tain nurses, salaried doctors, and salaried
pastors for the foreign congregations.
The Board invests a million dollars in these
foreign homes, and then spends half a mil
lion dollars a year to have the houses used
by school-teachers, nurses, doctors, and sta
tionary preachers.
Is that what the Bible means by ‘‘Go ye
preach the Gospel to every living creature?”
The only item in this elaborate Report
which looked to me like Gospel missions was
this one—
“An evangelistic tent in China.”
One tent! One missionary who is willing
to move about from place to place.
ONE! All the others must have mansions,
permanent elegant residences.
Only one missionary was willing to work
on the Pauline plan, and he had to have a
tent purchased by the Board.
According to Dr. William 11. Smith, the
missionaries must have imported food to eat.
According to Dr. Carleton Harris, they do
import their granulated sugar, their blitter,
their lard, their soap, their baking powder,
their ham and bacon, their flour, their kero
sene, their Pond's extract, their pen-knives,
their clothes, their shoes, their daily papers,
and their Ladies’ Home Journal. Saturday
Evening Post, &c.
(See page 29 of “Thos. E. Watson ex
posed.” The Nashville Board will cheerfully
send you a copy. It is an attempt to answer
my “Foreign Missions Exposed.”)
In glancing over this Report
to the Methodist Board, I was delighted to
see that Sister Emma Lester is on the roll.
Sister Emma is the Georgia lady who runs
that Missionary Sewing Shop in Soochow,
China, where Chinese women work all day
for $1.75 a month, and “never cease to be
grateful for the opportunity to earn so
much.”
Sister Emma assures us that the Chinese
woman supports herself and family on the
wage of $21.00 a year.
And she is so grateful for so much!
It is to be hoped that Sister Emma is grate
ful for her S6OO a year.
A difference of $579 a year, in favor of
the missionary, is calculated to make her
THE JEFFERSONIAN
look real pleasant, when she sits for her pho
tograph.
From week to week, I will go further into
the latest reports on Foreign Missions, and
afford you the amplest opportunity to com
pare present Board methods with those of
Paul, the early Fathers, and such pioneer
missionaries as Judson and Morrison.
If you will read “Stevens’ Methodism,*’ Vol.
L. page 268. yon will find that John Wesley’s
living expenses were £2B. a year.
In our money, that was not quite $l4O.
Times have changed.
EDITORIAL NOTES
By J. D. WATSON
For some time Mr. Bryan has been noted
as being our most overrated, visionary, hal
lucinated, would-be statesman, but it was be
lieved that Mr. Bryan had reached the limit
of making fool propositions, and making a
complete jackass of himself.
With his retirement from the State Depart
ment. there were rebuffs given him on every
hand that would have taught any man with
common sense that the people were tired of
him for good and ever, and it would have
made the average man retrospective enough
to refrain from doing even worse in the fu
ture than he had done in the past.
Virtually kicked out of the Secretaryship,
the whole country was reminded that he had
been a failure at everything he had ever at
tempted, except filling the Bryan pocket
book.
The whole country was reminded of the
fact that he was never a lawyer worth rating
—that he got his start in politics because he
was a demagogue—that he bodily stole the
Cross of Gold. Crown of Thorns speech that
won him the Democratic nomination in 1896,
that he had flopped from one issue to an
other from 1892 up to. 1912. when be stuck
the dagger in the back of his long, faithful
friend. Champ Clark, at Baltimore, and was
rewarded for his treachery with the Secre
taryship of State.
The whole country laughed at his so-called
peace treaties, and the whole country called
him the short and ugly word that takes the
place of falsifier—when one red-blooded
American is talking to another—because he
gave as his excuse for resigning from the
Cabinet the note to Germany that was not so
severe or hostile as notes he had signed pre
viously. and pertaining to the same issues.
But Mr. Bryan has gone even Bryan one
better, and now comes forth with a proposi
tion that hereafter we not only wait twelve
months, after falling out with a country be
fore we go to war, but we wait twelve months
and after the twelve months have expired, we
will submit the question to a vote of the
people.
In other words, we will refuse to fight, if
another country slaps our face, until twelve
months after the slap is handed us, and if at
the end of the twelve months the country
slapping us is not, yet ready to apologize, as
provided in the Bryan Peace Treaties, we will
then call a special election and submit the
matter to a vote of the people to see whether
or not we shall resent the insult.
Can't you imagine what would happen to
us while all of this was going on—this wait
ing twelve months, as provided by the Bryan
treaties, together with the added time that it
■would take for the question to be submitted
to the people for a vote?
Imagine what would be left of any part of
Europe today if either side to the conflict now
waging there had pursued any such asinine
policy.
How long would any Nation remain a Na
tion with such a policy as that advocated by
Mr. Bryan, in his latest display of decadence?
Only a year ago, the Woman Suffragists
were making all kinds of pleas to President
Wilson to take their side of the question, but
nothing could move the President to even a
consideration of their cause.
Time, and again the Suffrageties stormed
the White House with divers and dire threats,
but they had no terrors for the Chief Execu
tive, and he stood as firm as the Rock of
Gibraltar against giving woman the ballot.
But this year —rather during the past few
months—a sudden change came over the
President, and it was announced that he
would vote for Woman Suffrage at the New
Jersey election.
The New Jersey election took place re
cently, and New Jersey went against Woman
Suffrage by an overwhelming majority, in
spite of the fact that the President went all
the way from Washington to New Jersey to
vote with the Suffragettes.
The New 1 ork election comes off early in
November, and the Suffragettes are now pray
ing that Uncle-.Jli 11 McAdoo will prove no
such Jonah as d*d President At oodrovv.
But what is interesting the country inora
than the result of the vote against the Presi
dent in his home State is why the President
and McAdoo so suddenly changed their opin
ions about votes for women.
Most people do not seem to believe that it
is a case of a wise man changing his opinion
where a fool never does, but rather that there
is some reason for the change that the people
have not been told.
Perhaps the answer is a secret of the Suf
fragettes
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Editorial Notes on Topics of the Day,
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