Excerpt from A Missionary's Life in Nyasaland

There are some happy beings, no doubt of finer clay, who go through life with a serene confidence. They always seem to know the right course, as though by divine inspiration, and are never at a loss. With me things have been very different. Whenever I have had to make an important decision in my life, it has been made at the cost of a bitter inward struggle. More than ever in my life was this the case when I felt the first promptings to offer myself for missionary work. Was it my duty or was it not? I could not tell. Moreover, probably through my own dullness, I was quite unable to picture to myself what sort of life a missionary priest's might be. I felt that I ought to have some idea, for it seemed an important factor in solving the problem. Then I was lucky enough, though I ought not to call it luck, to come across Miss Gertrude Ward's inimitable letters. It was that book, I think, which led me to offer myself to The Universities' Mission to Central Africa.

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