e known cases of young ministers dissuaded
from facing the missionary call by those who posed
as friends of Foreign Missions, and yet presumed
to argue: 'Your spiritual power and intellectual
attainments are needed by the Church at home; they
would be wasted in the Foreign Field.' 'Spiritual
power wasted' in a land like India! Where is it so
sorely needed as in a continent where Satan has
constructed his strongest fortresses and displayed
the choicest masterpieces of his skill?
'Intellectual ability wasted' among a people whose
scholars smile inwardly at the ignorance of the
average Western! Brothers, _if God is calling
you_, be not deterred by flimsy subterfuges such
as these. You will need the power of God the Holy
Ghost to make you an efficient missionary. You
will find your reputation for scholarship put to
the severest test in India. Here is ample scope
alike for men of approved spiritual power and for
intellectual giants. And so I repeat, _if God is
calling you_, buckle on your sword, come to the
fight, and win your spurs among the cultured sons
of India."
_Rev. T. Walker, India._

THE sensation you experience is curious when you rise from the study of
Sir Monier William's _Brahmanism and Hinduism_ and go out to your work,
and meet in that work someone who seems to be quoting that same book,
not in paragraphs only, but in pages. He is talking Tamil, and the book
is written in English; that is all the difference. He was standing by
the wayside when I saw him: we got into conversation.

At first he reminded me of a sea anemone, with all its tentacles drawn
inside, but gradually one by one they came out, and I saw what he really
was; and I think the great Christian scholar, who laboured so hard to
understand and translate into words the intricacies and mysteries of
Indian thought, would have felt a little repaid had he known how his
work would help in the practical business of a missionary's life. Part
of our business is to meet the mind with which we are dealing half-way
with quick comprehension. It is in this Sir Monier Williams helps.

When once this man felt himself understood, his whole attitude changed.
At first, expecting, I suppose, that he was being mi