appy land! not until the pure light of the Gospel has
illumined thee, wilt thou learn that the greatest of all gifts
is charity!

* * * * *

and I thought that to convey the Gospel to a place so wild and
remote might perhaps be considered an acceptable pilgrimage in
the eyes of my Maker. True it is that but one copy remained of
those which I had brought with me on this last journey; but
this reflection, far from discouraging me in my projected
enterprise, produced the contrary effect, as I called to mind
that, ever since the Lord revealed Himself to man, it has
seemed good to Him to accomplish the greatest ends by
apparently the most insufficient means; and I reflected that
this one copy might serve as an instrument for more good than
the four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine copies of the
edition of Madrid.

* * * * *

I shall not detain the course of my narrative with reflections
as to the state of a Church which, though it pretends to be
founded on scripture, would yet keep the light of scripture
from all mankind, if possible. But Rome is fully aware that she
is not a Christian Church, and having no desire to become so,
she acts prudently in keeping from the eyes of her followers
the page which would reveal to them the truths of Christianity.

All this does not ring quite true, and in any case it is too much on the
lines of 'Sunday reading' to please the small boy, who must, however,
have found a thousand things in that volume that were to his taste--some
of the wildest adventures, hairbreadth escapes, extraordinary meetings
again and again with unique people--with Benedict Mol, for example, who
was always seeking for treasure. Gypsies, bull-fighters, quaint and
queer characters of every kind, come before us in rapid succession.
Rarely, surely, have so many adventures been crowded into the same
number of pages. Only when Borrow remembers, as he has to do
occasionally, that he is an agent of the Bible Society does the book
lose its vigour and its charm. We have already pointed out that the
foundations of the volume were contained in certain letters written by
Borrow during his five years in Spain to the secretaries of the Bible
Society in London. The recent publication of these letters has revealed
to us Borrow's methods. When he had settled d