’But it is not the less true that He did not make very small demands upon His disciples, and teach them and us that it needs but little care and toil and preparation to be a Christian and a teacher of Christianity.  The direct contrary to this is the truth.

’The teacher’s duty is to be always leading on his pupils to higher conceptions of their work in life, and to a more diligent performance of it.  How can he do this if he himself acquiesces in a very imperfect knowledge and practice of his duty?

’"And yet the mass of mediaeval missionaries could perhaps scarce read.”  That may be true, but that was not an excellence but a defect, and the mass of the gentry and nobility could not do so much.  They did a great work then.  It does not follow that we are to imitate their ignorance when we can have knowledge.

’But I am wasting your time and mine.

’Yours very truly,

’J.  C. Patteson.

’P.S.—­George and his wife and child, Charles and his wife, Benjamin and his wife, will live together at Mota on some land I have bought.  A good wooden house is to be put up by us this winter (D.V.) with one large room for common use, school, &c., and three small bed-rooms opening on to a verandah.  One small bed-room at the other end which any one, two or three of us English folks can occupy when at Mota.  I dare say, first and last, this house will cost seventy or eighty pounds.

’Then we hope to have everything that can be sown and planted with profit in a tropical climate, first-class breed of pigs, poultry, &c., so that all the people may see that such things are not neglected.  These things will be given away freely-settings of eggs, young sows, seeds, plants, young trees, &c.  All this involves expense, quite rightly too, and after all, I dare say that dear old George will cost about a sixth or an eighth of what we English clergymen think necessary.  I dare say £25 per annum will cover his expenses.’

On Easter Sunday the penitent was readmitted to the Lord’s Table.  A happy letter followed:-

’Easter Tuesday, 1869.

’My dearest Sisters,—­Another opportunity of writing.  I will only say a word about two things.  First, our Easter and the Holy Week preceding it; secondly, how full my mind has been of Mr. Keble, on his two anniversaries, Holy Thursday and March 29.  And I have read much of the “Christian Year,” and the two letters I had from him I have read again, and looked at the picture of him, and felt helped by the memory of his holy saintly life, and I dared to think that it might be that by God’s great mercy in Christ, I might yet know him and other blessed Saints in the Life to come.

’Our Holy Week was a calm solemn season.  All the services have long been in print.  Day by day in school and chapel we followed the holy services and acts of each day, taking Ellicott’s “Historical Lectures” as a guide.