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result may be in the very far future, when very 

 many generations have, so to say, been educated 

 up to a knowledge of the benefits derived from 

 our religion, of course it is impossible to say. 

 Again, the class of men who are generally 

 sent out to convert them are those who are most 

 unfit for the calling ; persons ambitious of authority, 

 and power, to gain which they cater to the ambitions 

 and avarice of the chiefs, and, sooner or later, 

 succeed in bringing about a hatred of one race for 

 the other, as well as placing impediments on trade, 

 and not unfrequently closing the routes of travel 

 through the country. These people ultimately 

 return to their native land rich, and abundantly 

 supplied with mock modesty and sham enthusiasm 

 for their calling. Two exceptions only have I met 

 to this severe stricture on the missionaries : the one 

 came to the country, comparatively speaking, in 

 independent circumstances ; the other was a Lutheran, 

 and of Danish birth. Whitechapel, Seven Dials, 

 and the slums of Westminster are the scenes 

 adapted to the labours of those who wish to make 

 converts, and there is plenty of scope at home, God 

 knows, in which to exercise their 'prentice calling. 

 I am aware that these sentiments are different from 

 those I entertained a dozen or more years ago ; but 

 should not a man profit by experience ? and ex- 

 perience is answerable for this change. Let the 

 money that now, in such vast quantities, is being 



