Show Failure of Foreign Missions The Peter Simpkin Taken to Task by the Intermountain Catholic I would advise every member of Salt Lake Ministerial Association to read the Intermountain Many of them read the Utah The Intermountain Catholic is a independent and an uplifting If Thomas Kearns had read or hired some one to read the Catholic to and had heeded its he would never have Joe or Judge Powers and started the so-called American Men of so small and undeveloped brains as Thomas Kearns should be led and guided in religious and not try to dictate to other religionists what they shall or shall not Salt Lake With the exception of two or every member of the Salt I jake Ministerial Association Tongs to and helped to organize the Kearns American party and they will vote at the next election for a trafficker in female All Nearly all the orthodox preach ers in Utah call themselves when they write letters to or go to see friends in the Eastern the exception of three or four in Salt Lake and two or three in they all are paid in by mission K begged from the Eastern What good do they do here to pass resolutions against the stir up and draw their mission Failure in T. C. Illif stated in his lecture in the Christian mission- in Utah had spent over Utah and had not 1 a of John D. Nutting of the Camp Mission stated in his report that the eleven missionaries then in Utah might work for five years before they a single and it required over each to keep a sheep camp missionary in Utah for one The Martin of a Presbyterian preacher who has been in Utah as a mis for over thirty-five years and spent several fortunes begged from the has probably never made one sincere convert during all that The orthodox missionaries are not only a failure in according to the Intermountain of they are a failure in foreign The following is what the Intermountain Catholic says The Delusion of P. A. from the sermon of P. A. 18 as we gather today a great revival of religion is sweeping through Shan-si and Hunan under the lead of Episcopal and Methodist from address delivered by W. T. Canadian Commissioner to in Parkdale Presbyterian Toronto Mail and 30 duty of the West is to evangelize the and that work must be done in But my two years' residence in that country satisfies me that the evangelization of the Japanese can never be accomplished by the present Not Fit to i's not in Japan today more than one Christian missionary who is able to preach a sermon fit for an intelligent audience to listen I have no hesitation in saying that the sooner the churches wake up to the fact that the present system must be pulled and the better it would be for If I could have my way I would recall 7 per cent of the missionaries at once and the balance within five Instead of sending out a lot of boys and girls to Christianize the Japanese and men and women of the greatest intelligence and experience of human need and human difficulties should be all of whom should have had ten years in our western world Catholics in Roman Catholic church had converted Japs to but the combined Protestant churches with their immense could not claim The Protestant Churches had better amalgamate and send out a commission to study the situation on the spot for at least a year and when they had gathered all the facts they could return and When that report was Christendom would awake and say the present system was a farce and a from Windsor Earl's Eastern p. Work Thrown labors of the Protestant missionaries have been absolutely thrown they have invariably remained at the chief settlements of the and the effects of their labors are rarely heard of except through the medium of missionary publications brought here from |