Show HARD LUCK MISSIONARIES That WitS was a n singular dispatch the other mornin morning morning morn morn- in ing that two reverend rc gentlemen doing missionary work olk in the south 1 seas had be been n killed and eaten b by cannibals We Ye thought that business was pretty pret I ty well over o but it seems to he be still in vogue ogue anti ami I the they must have ha good appetites down there or th they y never nOver wm would d dant want ant to swallow a missionary And we suspect the sensible thing when people peo peo- rie go out to convert that part of the world would he bc to go in in a gunboat or a torpedo boat or better still a submarine although those chaps down there cnn can all swim And that such a thing can happen in ill this dR day and age reawakens akens the question of whether the good results justify the expense It Jt is natural for devout people to want to convert the heathen whether the they are arc worth it or not but hut when they undertake that the they on ought ht to go pro pre re p pared pred red As 1 a preliminary a few discharges from t howitzer zer with some revolvers held in n res reserve r c o would l t be a timely precaution and then that might dyc I the souls of those a chance V We c t believe the opinion of churchmen is that bar barar barlar- ar- ar hillS i. who know no better have a n chance to to have their souls saved Raved and nd if there is such a chance wh why risk it by converting eon them 7 A Mormon ormon missionary who unsuccessfully tried trice to convert the people of one of the south sea islands it is said gave it as his opinion that the only proper mode or procedure to save sa their souls soul would be to k kill ll them off and then saye save them b by baptism for the dead which is good We can cnn understand nd the zeal of a missionary but Lut we know of no mi missionary who when hen the thc crisis crisi came would not rather kill a heathen than to have hav that heathen kill him while the rare roast beef bee question could be left out of the thc consideration altogether |