orth others without
going himself. He could not put it from his mind. He read Henry
Martyn's life, and resolved on praying for guidance as to his own duty.
In the words of his letter to Mrs. Dundas, "I thought chiefly of the
command, 'Go ye and baptize all nations,' and how some one ought to go;
and I thought how in another world one would look back and rejoice at
having seized this opportunity of taking the good news of the Gospel to
those who had never heard of it; but for whom, as well as for us, Christ
died. I thought of the Saviour sitting in heaven, and looking down upon
this world, and seeing us, who have heard the news, selfishly keeping it
to ourselves, and only one or two, or eight or ten, going out in the year
to preach to His other sheep, who must be brought, that there may be one
fold and one Shepherd; and I thought that if other men would go abroad,
then I might stay at home, but as no one, or so few, would go out, then
it was the duty of every one that could go to go. . . . And I thought,
what right have I to say to young men here, 'You had better go out to
India,' when I am hugging myself in my comfortable place at home." And
afterwards, "Now, dear Lizzie, I have always looked to you as my mother
and early teacher. To you I owe more than I can ever repay, more than I
can well tell. I do hope you will pray for me and give me your advice."

Mrs. Dundas's reply to this letter was a most wise and full expression of
sympathy with the aspiration, given with the deep consideration of a
peculiarly calm and devotional spirit, which perceived that it is far
better for a man to work up to his fullest perception of right, and
highest aims, than to linger in a sphere which does not occupy his
fullest soul and highest self; and she also recognized the influence that
the fact of one of a family being engaged in such work exercises on those
connected with them.

Others of the family, however, were startled, and some of his Cambridge
friends did not think him adapted to the Delhi Mission, and this
therefore was given up, but without altering the bent that his mind had
received; and indeed Mrs. Dundas, in one of her beautiful letters,
advised him to keep the aim once set before him in view, and thus his
interest became more and more turned towards the support of missionary
work at home.

In 1854, the first Primate of New Zealand, George Augustus Selwyn,
visited England, after twelve years of labour spent in buildi