The Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and Abroad. November 1 1888

This is what is overlooked by those who advocate the admission of men of humble origin indiscriminately and without signs of real fitness for the position of a Missionary Priest."* In the middle ages such men had been for years in schools and at the universities as is the case at various seminaries in the Roman Communion now. [...] The withdrawal of a consistent Chiistian man from the ranks of the professions or of business is a weakening of that particular calling which no man has a right to inflict upon it unless he has the most unequivocal assurance of special aptitude and that God is indeed calling him to the higher service." * This is a consideration which needs to be duly weighed for one of the most important thing [...] His Lordship described in your pages a visit which he paid about that time to Camorta a branch of the Indian Penal Settlement in the Nicobars a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal ; whence a hundred years before the last of the Moravian Brethren retreated after the sacrifice of twentfour of their number in nineteen years worsted by the fatal climate and the dead weight of the dark heath [...] It is of course a poor building—made of the leaves of the traveller's tree—but it is the best the natives can do. [...] Gospel message and on conversion bring forth the fruits of the Spirit is more than a justification for the labours by which.the Church is edeavouring to prepare India for the harvest at the end of the world.