well as the best scholars of Tamil Hindu literature. His South India Diary reveals a man who walked from village to village encouraging local evangelists and preachers, visiting parishioners in their homes, and catechizing new converts.10 He was a student of South Indian languages and cultures. But he was a student of cultures in order to be a more faithful missionary presence. He was the same missionary when he returned to England, only then he had to learn another new culture. He had to study the