efficiently converting my confused bundle of papers into a clean typescript for the purpose of printing. Studdert Kennedy used to say that any real thinking arose out of a ‘pain in the mind’. This very slight book arises out of the pain in the mind which is surely a necessary part of the experience of a missionary. There may have been times when a missionary was untroubled by the slightest questions about the rightness of what he was doing, but one would have to be deaf and blind to recapture that