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immensely cheaper than this system does it.
An office dealing directly with the churches
on one side and the missionaries on the other,
could handle that fund at a saving which
would support every missionary Baptists now
have on the foreign field, except natives.
u As a business proposition it would break
any bank in existence. As a common sense
proposition, it is too preposterous for serious
consideration. And there is not only no ef
fort to correct it, but the conditions get worse
with respect to the whole proposition. Secre
taries and salaries and expenses climb up and
up. Twenty years ago secretaries received
SBOO to SI,OOO a year. Now they get $2,000 to
$3,000. The Home and Foreign Boards have
made a host of secretaries and they go at $2,-
000 up to $3,000 each..
“This is what makes 10,000 Baptist church
es in the isouth back off from the system for
one thing. Then its Episcopacy on missions
has brought us to the point where Baptists
are in a conflict with a system which proposes
to rule or ruin without regard to cost or i.ie
interests of the work. ..
“And we are told this is the way and the
only wav it can be done. We happen to know
better It is time that Baptists were think
imi- and working to save their denomination
and their work from a system which is
wrecking both. Lay aside the muzzle-loader,
the hand loom and the tinder horn and get
a breech-loader, a factory and some matches
and do something.
