Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-03
Pray For Us.

The Herald and Presbyter, publish
ed at Cincinnati, Ohio, in its issue
of April 5, has the following:
We ask our reader to remember in
special prayer their well-known mis-
sionary, Dr. Sheldon jackson, who is
now arranging new mission stations In
New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. These
Territories are largely occupied by i
heather population alien to our insti-
tutlOns- And the only way they can
be made good citizens is through the
lciviliZlng influences of evangelical
Christianity. There is so much de
! pendent upon the wise selection of suit
able points, suitable workmen and the
arrangement of the work, that those
who have the direction of affairs great
" need the prayers of Gods people.
His trip involves one thousand six
hundred miles of staging.
I DR.. Jackson has passed. through Ari-
iona and we met and were very favor
ably impressed with him. He found
but few churches here, but if he is the
man we take him to be he will enlight-
en- some of the religious fools in the
east as to our character and moral con-
dItion. Nav we not give him q few
points to make in any communication
to his religious associates on what he
knows about the frontierg We sug-
geSt that he tell the church at the east
to cleanse itself of fools and hypo-
critics; that the idiotic ignorance and
whining hypocrisy of church men,
bers and religious newspapers are daily
driving thousands of intelligent people
throughout the country, away from
the church and into infidelity; that
the almost reverenual love which men
on the nations far frontiers entertain
for the church of their childhood, for
It's fond memories, for the sweet hymns
whose sacred refrain forever echoes in
the secret chambers Of their heart, the
well remembered tones of their old
pastor and their heart portraiture of
him standing at his familiar desk and
crying in his masters stead, Il am
the way, the truth and the life" the
old pew, the loved faces of the congre-
galion,-all these are pOwerless to stem
the rising disgust rs one looks at the
church of these latter days and sees it
filed with 4 mefcenary horde of de
signing hypocrites whose time is so
taken up with Il contemplation Of them
selves and securing the means, under
the cover of the church, to maintain
their precious lives in ease and idle
ness, that they cannot find time to IN
form themselves of the cOmmonest
facts in regard to their native land and
its inhabitants. And when they find
an especially big fool among their as
sociaics whom they must either get
rid of or send TO an idiot asylum,
they generally send him rs a missiona-
ry to the frontier and rely upon his
reports for information concerning the
people among whom he is sent. And so
it comes that the people Of the frontier
are rapidly drifting into skepticism in
regard to the church of Christ and its
teachings. How can we help ii?
These miserable sanctifed frauds like
the above writer in the Herald and
Presbytcr, and most of the missionaries
we see, all claim that they are on the
road to heaven and that they have a
dead sure thing on locations in the
golden streets of the New Jerusalem.
If such is the case we don't want any
feet" there under any circumstances.
In connection with such specimens of
humanity we don't want any New Je-
rusalem or golden streets or high
strung harps In fact we should utter
" lose our hold on the loved and re-
vered memories of the past and kick
the church and its virmin from our
heart altogether, did we not remember
that our blessed master, the Lord Jesus
found the church in his day infested
by the. same crowd and he singled
them out and lifted them off their feet
and stroked them with neat lightning
as follows:
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypOcrites for We shut mp the kingdom
of heaven against men; for We neither
20 IN yourselves, neither suffer we them
that are entering 10 go in.
Wo unto YOU, scribcs and Pharisees,
hypocrites for We devOur widows
houses, and for pretence make long
pray ers: therefore We shall receive the
greater Gamnation.
Wo unto YOU, scribes and Pharisees,
hvpOcrites for We compass sea and
land to make one proselyte; and when
he is made, We make him twofold more
the child OF hell than yourselves.
WO unto yOu, scrlbes ana Pharisees,
hvpocrites. for We are like unto whited
sepulchres, which indeed appear beauti-
full outward, but are within full Of dead
mems bones, and of all uncleannesS.
We serpents, We generation of vipers,
how can We escape the damnation of
hell?
I'm, C,r Dicro I-nion of Nav 81