Before going forth with this ‘lonely watcher’ upon his voyage, the description of this season’s work with his scholars must be given from a Report which he brought himself to write for the Eton Association.  After saying how his efforts were directed to the forming a number of native clergy in time to work among their own people, he continues:—­’When uncivilised races come into contact with civilised men, they must either be condemned to a hopeless position of inferiority, or they must be raised out of their state of ignorance and vice by appealing to those powers within them which God intended them to use, and the use of which will place them by His blessing in the possession of whatever good things may be denoted by the words Religion and Civilisation.

’Either we may say to our Melanesian scholars, “You can’t expect to be like us:  you must not suppose that you can ever cease to be dependent on us, you must be content always to do as you are told by us, to be like children, as in malice so in knowledge; you can never be missionaries, you may become assistant teachers to English missionaries whom you must implicitly obey, you must do work which it would not be our place to do, you must occupy all the lower and meaner offices of our society;”—­or, if we do not say this (and, indeed, no one would be likely to say it), yet we may show by our treatment of our scholars that we think and mean it.

’Or we may say what was, e.g., said to a class of nineteen scholars who were reading Acts ix.

’"Did our Lord tell Saul all that he was to do?”

’"No.”

’"What! not even when He appeared to him in that wonderful way from Heaven?”

’"No.”

’"What did the Lord say to him?”

’"That he was to go into Damascus, and there it would be told him what he was to do.”

’"What means did the Lord use to tell Saul what he was to do?”

’"He sent a man to tell him.”

’"Who was he?”

’"Ananias.”

’"Do we know much about him?”

’"No, only that he was sent with a message to Saul to tell him the Lord’s will concerning him and to baptize him.”

’"What means did the Lord employ to make His will known to Saul?”

’"He sent a disciple to tell him.” 
’"Did He tell him Himself immediately?”

’"No, He sent a man to tell him.”

’"Mention another instance of God’s working in the same way, recorded in the Acts.”

’"The case of Cornelius, who was told by the angel to send for Peter.”

’"The angel then was not sent to tell Cornelius the way of salvation?”

’"No, God sent Peter to do that.”

’"Jesus Christ began to do the same thing when He was on earth, did He not, even while He was Himself teaching and working miracles?”

’"Yes; He sent the twelve Apostles and the seventy disciples.”

’"But what is the greatest instance of all, the greatest proof to us that God chooses to declare His will through man to man? "