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A Militant Missionary.
n instance where the command

An instance where the command tc
resist not evil," but to overcome
evil with good" was SO far forgotten
by Christian missionary in the South
Sea Islands that he instigated the
bombardment Of a native village by a
British war ship is reported by the
icsstricken missionary is likely to stir
UP deviltry among the natives and
arouse hostility to everything the white
man has to offer, remarks the Mel
bourne paper, and the editor Of The
Missionary Review says that when this
act of the missionary reaches the ears
Of his superiors he will probably be
recalled. The incident Is related as fol-
lows: d
when off the Solomon Group infor-
nation reached the cruiser that cer-
tain coastal natives on the island of
Malaita had been making themselves
troublesome to a white missionary
stationed near Port Royalist. The
Prometheus Immediately steamed to
the locality, and was boarded by a
missionary attached to the Melanesian
Mission. This reverend gentleman
having complained that some Of the
coastal natives had fired on their fell
low countrymen belonging to the mis-
sion and had otherwise interrupted the
mission work, the cruiser, with the
missionary on board. at once proceed
ed to the spot supposed to be inhab
tied by the offenders. Very soon a
village was sighted, but the natives or
perceiving the war ship deserted theii.
houses and fed into the bush. The
Prometheus thereupon dropped few
live shells from her broadsides into the
village and, satisfied that the damage
they wrought would induce the is
landers to show greater respect to mis-.
sionaries in the future, she returned
he white missionary to his home and
resumed her voyage
III Indifference to Immortality.
What is most striking in the present
aspect OF the controversy over human
Immortality is the average mans alb
solute want of interest in the ques-,
ton. People shrug their shoulders,
and turn to their newspaper or their
business at the mention or thought of
an after-life. The destructive work OF
modern philosophy and science has ac-
tually resulted in so unsettling mems
minds that they have grown Indifferent
10 problem which they despair OF
ever solving. Such at least is the
opinion of William Osler, regius pro-
lessor of medicine at Oxford, England.
Or, McComb, writing in the London
Quarterly Review, quotes this eminent
physicist as saying that the modern
nanis Indifferent to the whole matter.
This finite world Is enough fsr him,
md he recks not Of any other. Pro-
essor Osler asks:
tsWhere among the educated and the
efined, much less among the masses,
10 we find any ardent desire for a fu-
ure life? 1t is not subject of draw
ing room conversation: and the man
whose habit 1t Is to buttonhole his ac-
luaintances and inquire earnestly after
heir souls is summed like the Ancient
Mariner. Among the clergy 1t is not
thought polite to refer to so delicate
q topic except Officially from the pull.
pit. Most onlinous of ALL as indicating
he utter absence Of interest on the
BART Of the public, is the silence Of
he press, in the columns of which are
manifest daily the works Of the flesh.
Did men really entertain such a won
9erful thought as survival after death,
would they not make Of 1t a subject
IF daily intercourse, and vie with one
mother in expressions of establishment
md JOY at such glorious prospect"
But Professor Osler, in his book on