WAere do the Scriptures command you to
neglect the white boys and girls, of your own
race and country, while you furnish money to
put up fine schools, dormitories and kinder
gartens in heathendom?
World Wide Missions, published in New
York City, is terribly rough on Watson for
taking the position that Charity ought to be
gin at home, and yet everybody knows that
there is enough work in New York itself to
keep busy every missionary that is now lav
ishing dollars and energy on the foreign
field.
The people of New York don’t go to
church: they spend Sunday at Coney Island,
Manhattan Beach, Atlantic City and other
resorts. Large sections of New York have
utterly repudiated Christ, and the churches
have moved away! (See Rev. Josiah Strong’s
book, “The Challenge of the City”.)
There are more than a hundred thousand
children in that one city who either go hun
gry to school, or cannot go at all for lack of
•clothes fit to wear.
Death, for lack of fresh air or for lack of
food, sweeps off thousands of infants every
year.
Death from starvation, and suicides caused
by fear of starvation, reap a horribly boun
tiful harvest every year.
Read this description of a living room in
the city of New York, and then ask Messrs.
