The Directors of the London Missionary Society sent out in 1897 the foreign secretary of the Society, the Rev. R. Wardlaw Thompson, and Alderman Evan Spicer of London, L.C.C., as a deputation to visit Madagascar, to have an interview with the General, and to talk over the situation and the work of the Society. The result was most satisfactory. The change that had gradually been coming over the spirit of the General’s policy before their arrival was still more apparent after their advent. The deputation were able to save the girls’ central school for the mission, to lead the General to understand, as he had never done before, the ends and aims of the Society’s work, and to convince him that the Society had no connexion whatever with the British government, and had no ulterior motives for being in Madagascar. They were able to get the fullest concession of religious liberty for all London Missionary Society agents, and the contract has been faithfully carried out, while the General shortly afterwards wrote to H.B.M. consul acknowledging, and even praising, the good work that had been, and was still being done in the island by the Society’s agents. On our return from our first furlough in 1882, we had been greatly disappointed at not being allowed to return to our old station in Vònizòngo; but after the severe way in which we had both suffered from fever there it was not thought advisable. Instead we were located in the capital. Some had always had the greatest anxiety to get located there, and never rested until they were. We, on the other hand, never felt drawn towards it as we did to our old home. Still, as years went on, it became plainer to us that there was work for us to do in the capital, some of it of a kind that I could not have done in Vònizòngo. By giving up my evenings mainly, and most of my spare time, to desk work, I was able to prepare and publish a number of translations, compilations, and books I had written, as I could not have done at Fìhàonana. In 1883 I was able thoroughly to revise the third edition of my translation of the _Shorter Catechism_, with proofs. I published my _Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount_, _Religious Tales and Anecdotes_, _Scientific, Monumental, and Historical Illustrations of the Truth of the Old Testament Scriptures_; _A Digest of the Books of the Bible with Notes_; _The Life and Times of Razàka, Pastor at Fìhàonana_; _A Short History of the Scottish Covenanters_; _A Short History of the French Camisards_; Booklets I and II, _The Children’s Portion_; a translation of _Hodge’s Outlines of Theology_; and Dr. John Laidlaw’s _Foundation Truths of Scripture with regard to Sin and Salvation_; and _When the fullness of Time was come, and other Sermons_, being the eighth small volume of sermons, the series representing 60,000 copies of ninety-six sermons.