The Arizona sentinel., 1903-06-10
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

SOOO can pest De uOIe. II IL lo to be done in far off Cathay or on Aries burning sands, then do it in those night begotten parts: but fit Is to donein Yuma, then so be it and take chances on Gods mercies having an oc- casional Judgement on the Colo rado as in Trinity, St. Peters or Westminster. But to get at the getatable.
 There Steams scarce a ship from our shores that does not carry more or less of missionaries to labor among foreign peoples. These missionaries can roughly be divided into three classes. Some are old and covered with honors; others young and burn ing for distinction III the Mas ter's cause, to carry the light of eternal light and reveal Christ in His manifestations to those who know Him not, nor care for an acquaintance. Missions may be fruitless of good, but the church recks not of that If its servants have wrought diligently in the spiritual vineyard. These may be noted as class one.
 There are others, and if the world judges them aright there are many of them. They labor under the sOcialistic deluslon that the world owes them liv- ing, hence their predilections for out of the way and obscure pla- ces. Saturated with the germs of idleness, they sleep in the devils tares and are fed on widows mites. The afar off af- lords no publicity, which they dread worse than old maid does the bangs of motherhood. When this class of missionaries are caught by the head hunters of Borneo or are made into Hong pig" for the delectation of the King of the Cannibal Islands, Christianity is done noble serv- ice, for the church Is better off without them: but when the skulls of good and well meaning, if misguided, men and women grin from the ridge-pole of a Decoit shack, or their bodies be done to a turn on Figiian spits, the church has really something to grieve for. Its martyrs bait ed for birds and caught toads. This may be called sowing the blood on which the church is said to thrive. Chasing black lambs in Figiiau pastures is like hunt ing grizzly bears attended with considerable danger.
 Class number three is yet tC be considered. Foremost of this tribe comes the political disturb CTS. In the garb of the Good Shepherd they hatch politica. plots, fan the fires of fanaticisn and urge one neighbor to cut the others throat. Through the baneful influence of these 'pestif erous individuals more innocen lives have been lost, more bfoOc shed, more property destroyed more families divided and more hearthstones broken than al other causes combined, Ill Africa China, Armenia, and so on Short on good, long on evil, mar TOW minded, bigoted and bad They carry torch instead of cross, and fatter themselves tha thls playing joke on God vii be taken for the real thing. Tn tangible evidence of their life work is marked by selhshnes and intrigue. They have adde reproach to the Masters nam and pushed back the shadow c the cross for all time.
 If missionary work is of piV otAl importance to the upbuild ing of the church would 1t not b well to send a good man or won an-out of class one-tO fallo' fields nearer home? True, ther is less romance and glamOr Tn than in foreign mission service less danger of having ones COL pons clipped and collected bt fore life's interest become due, and no more opportu nity for dawdling life away UT