But these were easy days, compared with many country ones of this journey, during which he traversed Ceylon, visited South India, spoke to some 8,000 Syrian Christians, and, calling at Madras and Calcutta, went on to the Punjab and Guzerat.

His final days in Bombay were, as we have seen, clouded by a bereavement of the Royal House.

But to his telegram to the Prince and Princess of Wales (now King George and Queen Mary), he got the cabled reply:-- "Their Royal Highnesses' thanks for your prayers and sympathy." It had thus already been seen that The General's plans for India were answering their purpose.

It became possible first to march large parties through various tracts of country, so impressing thousands in a few days more than the isolated labours of the best individuals could have done in the course of years, and then it came to learn later from Officers placed amongst them.

All this The General knew could not mean all that it would have meant amongst peoples who understood more perfectly our teachings; but he saw no reason for not making the most of such incidents.