shared with some younger missionary.
Kohloff, who was one of these, related in after years how plain their
diet was. Some tea in a jug, with boiling water poured over it and dry
bread broken into it, formed the breakfast, which lasted five minutes;
dinner, at one, was of broth or curry; and at eight at night they had
some meal or gruel. If wine were sent them, it was reserved for the
communions or for the sick. Swartz only began, very late in life, to
take a single glass in the middle of his Sunday services.

Every morning he assembled his native catechists at early prayer, and
appointed them their day's work. "You go there." "You do this." "You
call on such and such families." "You visit such a village." About four
o'clock they returned and made their report, when their master took them
all with him to the churchyard or some public place, or to the front of
the Mission-house, according to the season of the year, and there sat
either expounding the Scriptures to those who would come and listen, or
conversing with inquirers and objectors among the heathen. His manner
was mild, sometimes humorous, but very authoritative, and he would brook
neither idleness nor disobedience.

Over his Christian flock his authority was as complete as ever that of
Samuel could have been as a judge. If any of them did wrong, the
alternative was--

"Will you go to the Rajah's court, or be punished by me?"

"O Padre, you punish me!" was always the reply.

"Give him twenty strokes," said the Padre, and it was done.

The universal confidence in the Padre, felt alike by Englishmen and
Hindoos, was inestimable in procuring and carrying out regulations for
the temporal prosperity of the peasantry at Tanjore, under the Board
which had pretty well taken the authority out of the hands of the
inefficient and violent Ameer Singh. Districts that, partly from misery,
had become full of thieves, were brought into order, and the thieves
themselves often became hopeful converts, and endured a good deal of
persecution from their heathen neighbours. His good judgment in dealing
with all classes, high and low, English or native, does indeed seem to
have been wonderful, and almost always to have prevailed, probably
through his perfect honesty, simplicity, and disinterestedness.

The converts in Tinnevelly became more and more numerous, and Sattianadem
had been ordained to the ministry, Lutheran fashion, by the assembly of
the presbytery at Tran