Home Missions

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 6, 1866

HOME MISSIONS.—Gov. Brownlow, in the Knoxville Whig, thus expresses his convictions as to the moral condition of the country, and the need of home missions especially at the South:

“We doubt the policy, at least for a few years to come, of appropriating large sums of money for foreign missions. The war has demoralized our whole country, and our best portions of territory are overrun with thieves and cut-throats, who need reform even more than the heathen masses of China, Japan, or Persia. Many of the Protestant preachers, especially in the South, ought to have pious missionaries among them, to convince them of the sin of lying, swearing, and drunkenness. Let us use our funds at home, until our own people are reformed, and they will appreciate our calls for help for the degraded worshipers of idols in foreign lands.”