The Christian Missionaries.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In a recent CRIMSON editorial reference is made to the "average educated man's" conception of a missionary. In justice to the old-time missionary, the "average educated man" would do well to read the lives of John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides; of Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from savages into civilized beings, the "average educated man" may choose from a number of living soldiers of the Cross who are carrying on work of a character somewhat similar to that of the earlier heroes--such men as Dan Craw-ford in Africa, Sherwood Eddy in India, and John R. Mott throughout the world. I am convinced that all those whose names are here mentioned, and many others, belong in the great company of world heroes with Albert of Belgium and with Cardinal Mercier; some of them endured for a lifetime sufferings equal to those of our esteemed Belgian guests, and died unrecognized and unacclaimed by the world. The Christian missionary, on the whole, has been and is as worthy of our respect as any other person who has suffered for and rendered large service to mankind. ARCHIBALD B. MOORE '11.