There is no one to give a push to struggling energy, to guide aspiring intelligence, or to break the fall of unavoidable misfortune....

The Mission Clergyman," he goes on to say, "is a sensible, energetic man, in whose hands the work of _civilizing the people_ is making as much progress as can be expected.

But most of his energy is taken up in serving tables, nor can any great advance be made while every nerve has to be strained to keep the people from absolute starvation.

And this is what happens every winter....

What a monstrous thing it is that in the richest country in the world, large masses of the population should be condemned annually, by a natural operation of nature, to starvation and death.