assistance round all the platforms of English towns. The Eton, and
the Australian and New Zealand Associations, supplemented by the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and his own family,
relieved him from the need of having to maintain his Mission by such
means. All these letters are occupied with the arrangements for
raising means for removing the Melanesian College to a less bleak
situation, and it is impossible to read them without feeling what a
difference it made to have a father who did not view giving to God's
work as robbing his family.

On the 13th of August, Patteson was on board, preparing for the
voyage; very cold, and eager for the tropics. The parting voice in
his farewell letter is: 'I think I see more fully that work, by the
power of God's Spirit, is the condition of us all in this world; tiny
and insignificant as the greatest work of the greatest men is, in
itself, yet the one talent is to be used.'

It was meant to be a farewell letter, but another followed in the
leisure, while waiting for the Bishop to embark, with some strong
(not to say fiery) opinions on the stern side of duty:--

'I feel anxious to try to make some of the motives intelligible, upon
which we colonial folk act sometimes. First. I think that we get a
stronger sense of the necessity for dispensing with that kind of
courtesy and good nature which sometimes interferes with duty than
people do in England.

'So a man placed as I am (for example) really cannot oftentimes avoid
letting it be seen that work must come first; and, by degrees, one
sympathises less than one possibly should do with drones and idlers