The people are simple
and kind-hearted; but they need training--oh, how much!--physically,
mentally, and morally. I can assure you, here is scope for the most
daring missionary enterprise, and you,--I believe that you could do
it if you would. Consider the matter seriously; consult with your
friends about it, and if you do decide to try the experiment, write
as legibly as you possibly can to the Superintendent of Schools,
Farmouth, Mass., stating your qualifications, etc."
The idea struck me with such strange and immediate favor that I quite
forbore to consult with my friends in regard to it. I resolved to go on
the instant, and wrote my friend Mary to that effect, congratulating
her, with an undercurrent of mischievous intention, on having been the
happy means of setting my powers drifting in the right direction at
last; and reproached her gently with having seemed to imply, once, in
her letter, some occult reason why I had not been regarded, heretofore
as specially designed to work in the cause of missions, whereas I had
always felt myself drifting inevitably towards that end.
I wrote to the Superintendent of the Farmouth schools.
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