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THE MISSIONARY IN THE MOFUSSIL.
What he is Like, and How he comes into the World.
If the visitor is not altogether unlucky, he may, in course of his tour through these parts, meet with the Missionary. The Missionary is a great soul split up by many pettinesses. A man of infinite trust, but slow to trust the heathen; of sanguine hope, but always despairing of the world's future; of boundless charity, and yet very strict in judging of all outside the pale of his little communion. Learned as a book and simple as a child, too sensitive too grovel in poverty, and yet to proud to renounce it—the Christian Missionary presents a strange paradox in the economy of social life in India. There
