A'Hunting we will go.^' 
I ONCE heard of a man who said he did not 
believe in missionaries because they found 
time to go off shooting. His idea was that if their 
hearts were fully in their work they would have 
enough to do, without finding time to stalk big 
game. I believe there are many more who feel 
something like that when they see a photograph 
of a missionary standing with his rifle alongside a 
lion or an antelope he has shot. What I want you 
to see is that this is not fair to the missionary. 
To begin with — let us take the case of lion-shoot- 
ing. In Central Africa this king of beasts abounds. 
Often he is not content with preying upon other 
creatures of the veldt or forest, but will seek to 
provide himself with human flesh for dinner. Some 
of you may remember that David Livingstone was 
attacked by one, and badly mauled. He carried 
the marks of its attack upon him to his dying day. 
When a hungry lion, or lions, come prowling about 
the buildings of a village, or town, seeking whom 
they may devour what ought a missionary to do ? 
Let them do as they like? Or follow the tracks 
next morning and lay wait for it until he can shoot 
it? Again, what is a missionary to do when a 
man-eater enters the mission compound in search 
of food ? Surely there is only one answer possible. 
A living missionary and a dead lion are very far 
better than a living lion and a dead missionary. 
