MODERN MISSIONARY ZEAL.
Onward, Christian soldiers .' On to heathen lands ! Prayer book in your pocket?, Rifles in your hands. Take the happy tidings Where trade can be done ; Spread the peaceful gospel With a Gatling gun ! Tell the wretched Natives Sinful are their hearts, Turn their heathen temples Into spirit marts. And if to your preaching They will not succumb, Substitute for serruona Adulterated rum. Tell them they are pagans In black error sunk. Make of them good ChristiansThat is— make them drunk ! And if on the Bible Still they dare to frown, You must do your dutyTake and shoot them do\nt f When the Ten Commandments They quite understand, You their chief must hocus And annex their land. And if they, misguided, Call you to account. Read them — in their language — The Sermon on the Mount. If, spite all your teaching, Trouble still they give ; If, spite rum and measles, Some of them still live r Then, with purpose moral, Spread false tales about, Instigate a quarrel. And let them fight it out. — ' London Truth. 1
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1996, 10 May 1893, Page 3
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196MODERN MISSIONARY ZEAL. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1996, 10 May 1893, Page 3
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