Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932) (about)
Thursday 19 October 1911

In his book on 'Christian Missions,' the late Mr. Alfred Marshall collected a remarkable series' of 
testimonies to the character and work of Catholic missionaries, gathered from the writings of non-
Catholic travellers and explorers. Much evidence of the same kind has accumulated since he wrote. 
And not the least notable feature of this body of testimony is that among those who speak most strongly 
of the good qualities and efficiency of our missionaries are men who have no liking for, or belief 
in, missionaries in general. 

Thus to give the most recent instance, Mr. Stanley Portal Hyatt, an English pioneer in South Africa, 
who has also travelled in other borderlands of civilisation, has just published his impressions under 
the title of 'Off the Main Track.' He does not like missionaries, and he sums up his adverse opinion 
of them thus: 

	"I have seen missionaries in most parts of the world, and I look on them, 
	as a class, as dangerous nuisances, who live lazy, and often sensual lives 
	on money which ought to have been spent on bettering the condition of our 
	failures at home. Possibly the statement is too sweeping - it does not include 
	the Catholics as a whole, and certainly I would include not a single Jesuit...