brought over to God. When men speak despairingly, as many persons are inclined to do in the present day, of missions, it is because their own zeal, perhaps, is not so warm as it was, or because the general tone and tendency of the days in which we live is to advance in mental culture, perhaps to the lessening or weakening of the moral sentiment within us.--The Dean of Canterbury at the Meeting of the London Missionary Society.

Why, we are as broad as the world; we claim kindred with all mankind, and we are the persons who insist that all mankind shall be reckoned, none left out, for to us there are no lines of clearage which we cannot easily overpass; there are no skins so dark that we cannot see some lingerings of the Divine light that fell at E first from the face of the creating God upon the creature; and there are no noses too flat to be brought in some way or other within our lines of Christian beauty. We believe that God hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth. -Rev. Dr. Raleigh.

One of my colleagues had a somewhat similar experience. I refer to the Rev. William Hall, of the Methodist New Connection Mission. A most touching incident occurred just before he left. It was the day before he was leaving, and this old Chinaman came in, attended by a number of his companions, to say farewell to their pastor. Said he, "We want to say 'Farewell.' Why, bless the good man, they had been in again and again to say "Good-bye." “I am," said he, “an old man; I cannot go with you to England. I wish I could go to England and America, and tell English and American Christians what I feel; but I cannot go; and these young men here—whether they will ever go I do not know, but any rate, they won't go just now; and we have agreed to send a message to the Christians of America and England, and we want you to deliver it." Supposing you were parting from some friends whom you did not expect to see again, you would grasp each other's hands, and choke in the throat, and say, Good-bye, we may never meet on earth, but we will meet in heaven." The Chinese message, however, was grander than that. "Tell our friends yonder we shall never see them on earth, but when we get to our Father's house we will go up and down and look them up, and there, in the presence of Jesus and the holy angels, we will thank Heaven for what they have done for us."-Rev. T. Lees of Tien-tsin.

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Po tax men for the support of a religion they conscientiously believe to be untrue and harmful, is unjust. Whatever is unjust is immoral, whatever is immoral is irreligious, whatever is irreligious is ungodly.

Two children were playing together. Little Jane got angry and pouted. Johnny said to her: "Look out, Jane, or I'll take a seat up there on your lips." Then," replied Jane, quite cured of her pouts, "I'll laugh, and you'll fall off."

Zuingle, the great German reformer, was killed in battle, in the year 1531. His last words were cool and brave. Gazing calmly, and with undaunted courage, at the blood trickling from his deathwounds, he calmly exclaimed, "What matters this misfortune? They may indeed kill the body, but they cannot kill the soul."

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QURSELVES AND OUR READERS.

S another year draws silently and swiftly to its close, it is not unfit that an Editor and his readers should interchange a few words more personal and direct than those which usually occupy our pages. In doing so now, we cannot refrain from the expression of thanks for many kindly services rendered by our numerous readers, for valued suggestions, for efforts to extend the circulation of our Magazine, and for signs of widening usefulness in our Churches. That some, at least, of the articles contributed to our pages are of unusual value, may, we think, be inferred from the fact that it is by no means uncommon for permission to be sought by our readers that particular contributions may be reprinted in large numbers as tracts and handbills, for the use of our own and other denominations.

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