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RUDE,-p.D|* ' 7 * Cnlnmbi tioan to , 8.C- Religious, For the Lutheran Ministers’ Wive*. • prime time past I haves noticed i different papers of om church ters, various articles npon and mountaiu L^om, duties, &e. .Sel 1pm do rthing more of tl e faith lying minister’s wi e, than obituary notice ami muciug from a routine o 7 labors well emulated to sustain i >ud on her frequently disci mraged husbau I4 and hide \per sum ws aud white she speaks with hope lture, and seeks tollighten by overtasking petself. The greajt majority of ministers mar ry a second time; the world never asks, wh; r ? The reason is. tfratpik istere’ W ves usually perform aiore labor with their “beads aud hand*,” than any other clast* of women in the land,! and early sink under trials for which their strength waq made qnate. A city jiastor told me that he owed much of his oratorical power to the fact,! that for several years his wife bad been accustomed, djvery Sato ones w evening when her |ittle safely asleep, to go tAtbe study, Whether tired or not, • and bear higi| read his sermon over, pilfer tions and remarks, Which accepted, and profited by r mind aud clear pefreep- coautry, make tl but bus add y pastors wife has of l»er own. Her lary liciug limited, much heavier than dn the her utmost emleaVors to ) salary ‘‘hold out n must be brodjht into exercise; liefddes, she must be ready to reliewe the destitute cases that apply to |ier for ahl, and then she is often cijoilded uy from the country, jwho i- find it very eouvenji v.——?s for a week,j ‘ city 011 shopping ex| t to them anything" Then cs are so dishonest that ft sui>eriutend her dofnCstic be always ready ,-to en- lera at any hour. rent are the duiicfc of pastor's wife. Her lie most trying lot *> ge every ou'e knows all at the “minister's, 7 tven ily bill of fare, ai d the te acts of his fami y are ited 111k>ii all o^ efi the ntimatcly a lady wl o seemeil “•del of what a minister’^ jwife shoald always be. Heared ii afflu ence and j luxury', she turned f oln a life of ea^ thwl refinement, m in ied a uiiuistci and settled in a When she fouud, after her mi that her ^usband's salary was li S*i» «h« Resolutely laid asidi cultivated tastes, 1 herself qf books, pictures and and qevoted her eneigies w «k of lal- pastor’s wife. She flght children, most of whom fi°ne wifi her to heaven. I Often pf her her rocking the < radle with her foot, !* to l|ave lni>r ^‘gagetl in superinteud^ug tbe^tud ivs of her other children, and 4t the wing She told me one 4«y, lier if she nevqr re presents from her! •arne timp have her basket of st her Fbeu I teived firegai and that she did that a week wealthy lady called and said, “As winter is approaching, I thought I wouU^ make your Httle girl a pres eut,* at the same time unfolding a well-worn and much shrunken flan nel skirt, patched iu several places, and also a pair of stockings which were well darned. This she was obliged to accept with many thunks, but she told me that she had hard work to repress her sensitive and wonuded feelings. Many people im agine that - a minister’s wife has nn fitling*, and because she dare not retaliate for fear of giving offenee, she mnst hearc.what any one may choose to say. Tliis lady was the manager of the Sewing Society, and auy *nHni*kM work was always sent to her to do, the members excusing themaelvea by saying that “they were bnay and tired, and Mrs. could easily do it; with a big girl in the kitchm, of eonrse she has not much to do.* Notwithstanding that her health was delicate, she never failed to be in her class at the Sabbath school, ami during the twenty-fonr years her hasbaud was pastor of one chnrrh, she taught three classes of yonng men, taking them wlweu they were boys and keeping them until they were old enough' to be teachers themselves. Every one ot her pn pile became pious. Sl»e told me she never allowed a Sabbath to pasa without jiersoiial conversation with one or more of her elttas. After her return home on Babbaih evening she always called her family into the sitting-room, instructed them in the. beautiful lessons taught in the Bible, illustrating and enforcing some spe rial truth upon their niinds. One of her children, now In middle age. says that those instructions are as fresh in her mind now as when they were uttered, over thirty years ago; and that they could never fade from her memory. Tims ithis excellent woman labored on Until she had become quite an old lady, and stilt atteuded her class in the Sabbath school. I never knew* her to travel In the cars or stage coach hut that she sought opportunities to sfieak of Christ, in such' * winning ami persuasive manner tfeit none mere offended. Unassuming in her man ners, she accomplished more in her private sphere than hiany ministers do in a more public capacity. Her record is on high and in the Great IMg many will call her blessed, as being the instrument of tbeir salva tion. — The wife of a mountain pastor has trials peculiar to her 'sphere. Upon her devolves the cart? of the family while her huslmnd is absent, the care not only of the physical, but intellectual aud spiritual part of her chihlreu. While her husband is holding bis protracted meetings, and facing the rough, showy blasts of winter that sweep and howl through the mountain gorges, bis wife, dis tressed with anxiety, is often on hef knees prayiug God to safely guard aud protect the one so dear to her from the wild auimals that infest the mountain ranges; and when he re turns and relates how some cata mount bad screamed at him from some cliff overhanging his path, while steep precipices lay below him, aud of the various .dangers he had encountered, her ht>urt is full of iniugled thanksgiving for his safe arrival, and terror at the bare thought of what might bare hap ]*>ned; aud in sympathy for him she forgets her own troubles and hastens to exchange his wet cloth ing for warm, dry garmeuta, ami to prepare for him a cup of warm cof fee or tea. I knew a mountaiu pas tor who came home ou one occasion so chilled by the snow storm that he had passed through, that it took three hours of constant friction by rubbing, batkiug the extremities in hot water and vinegar, drinking hot coffee, &c., to restore the circula tion, and wbeu at last he become somewhat warm be said»*^Ajiotber half hour’s riding^ aud I could not have revived.” After this, when that pastor had to proceed ou bis mountain rides, his wife would be nearly distracted by anxiety, lest the storm should prove too much for even that stroug frame to bear, aud she told me that iu her imagiua turn she bad buried him a hundred times, ofteu walking the floor till 12 o’clock at nighty unable to sleep and listening to every sound on the road, thinking that , it was her hus band returning. f . I have kuowu young ladies reared it luxury marry min inters aud re move to a mountain charge, obliged, when left alone for weeks sometimes, far from all neighbors, to go to the folfeet and drag home such fuel as their strength allowed, cat the wood with their own hands, to korp their children from freexiug, and ofteo hr kept awake by tl»e cry of the pan ther prowling about the prealism. 1 knew a case iu Maryland, where th<3 wild' oats, as they are called, atuSrked a man and tore the flesh from hia body, ami when he at Inst succeeded in killing bin foe, ha lay down bleeding ami faint, and waa fonnd in a dying condition by aome traveler!. Persons not fhatiliar with * mountains are not aware of the na ture of there animals, which? during cold weather, and pressed by ban ger, attack travelers—min inter*, as well as aqy one else. A -lady said to me not long ago, “! wiah I were a pastor’* wlie* “Why t* I asked. “Oh ! ministers’ wives have plenty of money, no fttmily to are to, everybody love* them and rends them jdetity to eat • they have nothing scarcely to do snd no trials," afie replied. “Ah f* said I, “how little yon know of the interior of a mininier** family; how exactly the reverse of a)I you imag ine.” Aha looked at me in some surprise, but I did not unfold the “tfiody tide" of bft* to lier. If min iaters told their Aitnre wives what their trials would he, eery fr*w mis taler* could get wires; for vising ladies would not have tlie requisite courage to fact- the peculiar trial* of that station. Parishioner* often encourage their pastor, but who ever *te|M in to say a wool of cheer to # l»e overtasked, overworked wife t Win* inqni/v* what her necessities are, and offerW sympathy and affectionate interest to her t Seldom is this done. I have ofteu thought that our dear Lord has prei*ared aome *|*ecial joy* ia his hcuveiily home for that class uf women who aserml thither through “much tribulation.* Ministers’ fani dies ofteu suffer for want of suitable food. I have known iu Virginia a mi ulster’« family to I* sit bout meat for three or four week* at a tiu» Their |»eople never nilW to m if they iH^led any, and ditl ani pap the salary, imagining that mhucIiow their ]**stor contrirnl to liv*e. I knew am*ther family who lived ou unbolted wheat am! filed |*otatoe« for nearly thns* mouths. They had no m«*ney to afford flour aud meat and coffee, &c. People too often regard paying ministers* salaries as a gift, instead of a debt which they owe. If they would lie prompt to reljpve their pastor ami his wife, by paying the small sti|*end which be should receive, they would feel bet ter themselves, and make many a pastor’s wife rejoire. B. * * The Cur ecu a Home There, in here aud there an eutlii^srastu which ignores church organization altogeth er, contemns all formularies, rejects the ministry, and asks tliat men be let aloue with their Bibles, to worship in unembarrassed isolation. Suppose that a house leaks in water through the roof, or lets in wind through a crevice in the wall, or has some defective timbers, shall tlx* family, imperfectly sheltered, destroy the structure entirely, am! take to the outer rain, the cold, ami the stonu, each memlier for biiuaelff Suppose that because the rliinrli ia deficient in aotne port of its super structure, admits a little frost st times, lias a shelving cornice, a crooked post, a knotty plank, ahull Christians hatter it down uml dis perse, shelterless, single, aud alone, to contend with sueh a frowning world as tbiaf With such human nature as ours built ill, etothl perfec tiou be expected f if the church were diaorgauued, what coufuaHxi, sorrow, and loss! No, we ore uiem bers one of another, compacted ami built ou one foundation. Religious life depends more ou the church than aome person* arc in willing to admit. Fellowship overcomes many a dificulty, quickens many a convic tion, expands many a charity, uud saves many a soul. Christ lias es tablished a church—a building—-a visible structure—and is himself the oorucr-atone. The disciples of him who had not where to lay his head shall never be uuhoused.—CferF# Workday Christianity. Rejoicing in the I/)bi>^“I am reminded of the good woman," said Hpurgeon, lately, “who illustrated the rest of the son! in God, in a time of fearful earthquake, by saying to her affrighted friends, 'How glad I From the A- It- lWnrUdun. Spiritual Discernment -W Iaapiratioa. wmwpn “Tl» nainrsl man rerrhnrth *«• the flaw* of lb** spirit ai (lad; flat thf are biolishurwi to him: neither ran He know them : for thee are spirttaally iiasrmrii. not he that is spiritaai disrerneth nil thing*."—1 (’or. II: It For prophecy rorne not In old time In •be will of man; tm« bnlRors of find ■nuke as they were moved by the Huh (thoid."—11‘eter I: tt. * AD who profess aubjertion to the trarhiiijp of the Hcripturea, profeoa, also, to believe that there are opera tioua and influence* of tlie Holy Rpfrit. But rva|mriing tbeoe the conception* of many are vague and coiifria**!. There U a general muter standing that the H|iirtt’a prreeore and work are iiecaasary: that He rhungcM, in some way mysterious to na, the soul of man an that hia p«'recpth»na of revealed truth and his feclingw to* unis it arc different from what they formerly were. In that subjective operation, railed— I. an the Divinity of Christ. to make a revelation or work a mir ocle. But the cases of Balaam, of Iscariot, of (’aiapbas, aud of the many .who, our Lord has aakl, shall come, saying; “Have we not prophesied In thy uatnc ? aud in thy name east out devils f and in thy name done 1 infidels are in the habit of urging many wonderful works F teach u* \ against the Ubristian religion, sent a that iu this, as in msny other things, j copy of his work to Napoleon daring God’s tf^y s are not as our ways. J residence at St. Helena, nor his thoughts as qur thoughts. I Knqieror read the book with Hating received the gift of the intereat and pleasure; and if it did Dr. Bogue, the author of a valna bin essay of the “Divine Authority of the New Teat ament,” in which he meets the principal objections which lloly Ghost for the purpose of rev elation and miracles, was, therefore, no |*niof that the ripirii in His re g*’Hoisting enlightening, aanctifyiug ami comforting infitietin** hod- iieeii received, l’out ofteu *{teaks of theae, not altogether jtersuade him to ac know U-dgv JeouH Christ as his 8a viour, it yet powtirfrtlly contributed to diaaiftate his doubts and to j trod a re a certain degree of convictiou. Af ter the death of Napoleon, the same but never of those, though he had j <*‘»P.v liecame the pit>|»erty of an offi received t!*em more abuiulautly tliau | w. » ho had given leasou* in Eiigfisti had other*, a* the evidence of hia! to the family of aome of tin* EmjK* saving relation to Christ. ruFa friends. On the return of hi* The reoftou why no niirarfea are regiuw«t to England, this officer pre w 1 ought now, doubtless, is, not be "euted the volume to Ih\ Bogue, who cause no one has faith strung enough | ** with emotion, re “Bore again * the Bpirit la the op^ to |>rrfnru« them, but because there j k'UwJiuF it as a viaible u»ken of the erutor; for oil sueh are “bore of the ts no gift of the Holy Ghost to be f#vor *hicb God bad aliowu hia la Bpirit." He omvlnces them of their received for that |mrpo*e. And thojborm. sin and misery, enlightens their ; probaliie reason why there are no | Boon afterwards, the French Abbe sorb gifts now is because then* are no new «v\*eiati»m*—«o new gospel to lie accredited by them. Tu all who knew of if, every miracle was a palpshh* |woof of the past that the “King eternal, immortal, invisible,” 1 nd mimla iu the knowledg** of Uhriat, ami renew* tiieir wili*; and, thus. He |M*rsuo«lc* ami enable* them to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to them in the GoapH. Ami not only so, hut in ennsection with the regenerating art there begins be- j won present. And tl, also, tuM aome tween the Holy Hpiiil and all those thing of Ilia character-—of Ilia jodg- wlnuu He creates ynew in (Tariat I meot. t*r of Hia mercy. When the Jesus a relation an near, so intimate, | “Boa of Matr a|>pcared ou earth, aud to them so gracious and lime hod He devoted liimoeif to ptocking final, that it ran be aptly expressed up trees and mountains and coating in no otbFr way than by the Snip them into the «ra, cor to the prrfortn tur.il style of oneneas. lienee, they aure of such mirarles as Baton re- are said to he in the Bpirit amt the qutred. He would, indeed, have un- BjMrit in them ; they live in the ! pressed all brhuidfra with the idea that He iMOMcaacd mfiuite (tower. But trom such in;mitestatum* of poser they could mil have lifer red His «ltapomthu>—could uot have are refiewed in the wtud** tn-tu after known whether He would, one day, the image if God, and are enabled ‘ use that power for their destruction more and more to die onto sin ami I **r aolvat«oa. But »ben they asw five uafo rigliteonunea*. > that all Ha miracles were wrought Bpirit amt they walk in the B|iint; and the Bpirit dwells in them ami abide* with them forever. And it is by virtu? <*f this union that be!k*\er* n* reflew Then, tines this renewing ami en lightening oprratWm of the Bpirit constitute inspiration? The “natn- rul man," m lien “born of the Bpirit,” iiti*s certainly, by virtne of l*»iug *0 horn, and by the consequent in dwelling of the lloly Spirit, become '*opiritmal" Hut is he also inspired f These questions will, perila|>*. sur prise some reader* who have tiren giving more attention to their Hitilea ami i*Mteehl«ms than to the Ix-tero doxv which is almwid in the world. fur the relief of suffering hnjnaaity, they could nut easily avonl the con rlasnan that ill* misntun on earth was |ieaer aud good will to tm*. It wroa easy to draw the inference that He who powseased such power roaUl save the anal, ami tliat He ‘who manifested no mnefa r«Mitpaawian wonbl ikk be tndiflferrat to its wei- farc. Amt. thus, by thy mirariea the ••oMfs-l was not only oct'redited. hot aha» (wearbed. Bo tnog. therefore, la the mrUUufi* which (tod was flat they should knowr that there (draarel to make to maukiml were are many who owuvive of the B(dr unfiiiiahed. there was reason to ex it’s tqieratious so vaguely ms to eon fonnd the indwelling ami illumination of the Holy Spirit, |»iM»iw»ii by ev en Iwdievcr, with the inspiration by which, in oltien time, the holy men of God *|wike, lieing moved by the Htdv tJfewt. M«»re than thirtv vear* ’ w 9 ago. we ktn a a minister who said in the pulpit : “The inspired Watts.” We don't know what tie meant. Neither did lie, |*rh*ip*. Suhar qnently we knew a man. an elder we think lie was, who argued that Dr. Watts was a better man, and pert that miracles would be per formed, both to accredit ami to iii uot rate litem wbeu mode. For (tol never did. and we may safely flay never will, reqaire any of the sons of men to belie re any rex elation He makes, without affording them a reason for believing, sufficient to meet the requirements of that mental const it 11 tu >u with which He has en dowed them. Faith hi not reuses. Neither is hojw* reason. Yet there is **n reason for the hope that is in ns.” lint the mental state, indicated by that be had Just sa good a right this phrase, is very diffrrent from to make Psalm* for the church a* , that indicated by tin* phrase, “a hope David. *But in the writing* of En hw a reaoou.” .Vs soon, however, as nqiean iloetorw. some in England , all |mr|iuMed revelation waa fiuished, ami more u(mni the (’ontineut, it island property fleandM to the na argmsl at great length that there tioua of the earth, then* was reason is no diffi-rence. and that the men* ure of every man's inspiration ia, the attainments he has mml** in faith and holiness. Ami correspond ing to theae. because growing out of the same misconception, there is to expert that “the gift of the Holy Ghost," not only for revelation, Imt also for miracles wonbl be with drawn. Those, therefore, a bo de claim against the present generation for having so little faith, aud (irove met with, every now and then, a j its Uttleneae by the absence of mir man whose peculiar crotehet ia, that aclea, might joat aa well prove the the reason why 00 miracles are wrought these day*, ia because no Imily has faith sufficiently strong to work them. Yet, even these, poor crotchety fellows, who blame same thing by the absence of new revelations. For, according to the plan on which Jehovah proceeded, throughout the period of four thou Band years, Revelation and Miracle* ami scold the present generation J are inseparable: the one Is hand- of Christian* so ranch for the lack writing, the other the seal; hence, of faith, have not themselves faith separated, neither of them would enough to work a miracle 1 To avoid all inch errors, it ia jneceflfldry to observe that there is subserve any valuable purpose. A. R Kvkby day Analogikh.—It ia a difference between that gift of ^ t him twos of the Christian teacher tin Spirit which renews, and illn to uke of the common inmate*, and comforts every believer. lj%w of r|T - n «-« and analogies, and the gift which qualified the ^ truth and duty by recipient for rexcaling the will nf p^g^, from every-day observation. G<mI, or" tor working luinwde* to accredit the revelation. These gifts im* so different that the possession of the one does not necessarily im ply the other. It la true that those who were favored with the latter generally had the former also, nt not always. When our Ix>rd fe*nt forth the twelve to preach and to work miragicfe Judas Iscariot was po exception. It doe* not accord am that Ood mt shake-the world • I with the precooceptlena we would always believed that He could, and j naturally form, that an unregwner now I see Him do R’» i oto person would ever be inspired The propbaU so instructed the peo ple, and were understood; and the apostles followed their example—an example mode emphatic by the meth ods of Christ himsell—and were never accused of secularising holy things, except by the Pharisees, who were too religious to allow a few heads of wheat to be rubbed out of its chaff by hungry* men on the Sabbath, and yet not too reHgkm* to bruise people to death with stones for entertaining opinions at variance with their own, any day aad anywhere.— Workday ImAm% . Bonsvita, on quitting Paris to i»ro- ceed by way of Belgium and Eng land to Bt. Helena, where he was to art as chaplain to the Emperor, was iwought, while in Belgium, into ixswvtion with the Englishman, who waa a n*akm* nupporter of the Bible Society. They sailed to Londou in the *ame vessel, and frequently met during the A bite’s stay in the city. The Englishman*availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded and |resented the Abbe with a lieantiful copy of the Bilde, with the request that he would offer it to the exile at Bt. Helena. The Abbe gratefully acrc|»ted it, assuring the gixer that N;»|*o!eou would set a high value ou the (resent. Such proved to be the fort. Napoleon, as had been declared by trust worthy, parsons who sur rounded his death-bed, diligently read the Holy Hcriptures, aud in the midst of his suffering*, frequently uttered the name of Jean* with much •-motion. He had not, however, wait e<l till the last moment to make hi* confession before men. In an easy, but serious conversation, be had al ready exclaimed, with that expressive accent and abrupt utterance which had an electric a power: “I know men, and I tell you Jesus ia more than man.” He eontinoed ; “lli* religion is a mystery which subsist* independent in itself: it proceeds from an intelligence more than human; we find it marked by a profound individuality, which ha* created a system of expression* and precept* previously quite unknown, .lemi* borrows nothing from our science*. We nowhere find an ex ample he could have copied; nor haa there been any imitation of bis career. He h no phik>t*o|iber; for bis proofs are miracles, ami from the vrrv find hi* followers adored him. Sciroce and philosophy do, in fact, teach nothing of salvation; but Uhrist came into the world for the sole pmj*»*e of revealing heavealy mysteries and the laws of the soul. “Alexander, 1’imr, <’hariemagne t am! I, have founded empires; but on what have we supported the crea- tious of our genius? On force. The empire of Jesus is founded on love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. It was not a single day, nor a single battle^ ^hat secured the triumph of Christianity. It was a long war—a war of three centurion—commenced-by the apos tles, continued by their successors and after-generations of Christians. In that war ws see kings ami all the powers of earth on one side; on the other I behold no army, but a mys terious jwwer, some meu dispersed here and in every part of the world, who have no other watchword but a common faith in the mysteries of the Cross. “I die before my time, and my body will be reduced to dust and become the prey of worms. What a gulf of separation between my wretched condition and the eternal kingdom of Christ 1 He is preached, loved, adored; his kingdom is spread ing over all the worid. Do yos call that dying? Is it not rather living F Napoleon here stopp'd; and then, as General Bertrand made no reply, the Emperor added: “If yon can not see that -Jesus Christ is God, I made a mistake when I appointed you s General.” As a pilot, that steers the ships has his hands upon the rudder, and his eyes at the same time upon the star above, so shoald we be diligent in the use of means, bat look op to God for direction. ' l When some years since Dr. Way land put forth that very remarkable book entitled Mullet*t Life of Trust, the views advanced or rather exem plified therein, provoked an unusual ly lively discussion, uot only ia religi ons bat tecnlar circles. The volume, it will be remembered, was devoted to a historic statement of the labors of Muller ia building up and sustaining the Ashley Down Orphanage, of De vonshire, England, through recourse to no other help save untiring prayer, ranvassers were never sent forth; iwiblie meeting* were never held; none of the usual machinery for collecting funds was called in play ; yet, l»y~a simple appeal for God’s help in every sore strait, money came freely is and the Orphanage throve wonderfully. As this mode of procedure has- scarrely been relied upon by the generality of denominational institu tions. those who advocate the use of Imuiau instrumentalities to supple meat divine aid were inclined to throw doubt* upon the assertions of the book, and to hint that whatever may have been his victories in the past, ttfe future of Mr. Muller—if he (M-rsisted in bis course—was likely to be not unattended with difficulties. We do hot know how many years are to be allotted to Mr. Muller, but thus fee; it would appear, be comes ont triumphant over all speculations. The Freeman (Baptist, London), in its issue of September 16th, gives very full extracts from a “Brief Narrative of Facts,” in which the founder of Ashley Down Orphanage brings tip his story to 1866-70. “Without auy one having been per Moually applied to for anything by me,” says Mr. Muller, “the sum of £323,092 7s. 9£d. has been given to me for the orphans, as the result of proper to God, since the commence ment.” This immense contribution amountisg to over a million and a half doUflfiS in gold, has been employee! in building five houses for the orphans, in supporting the schools, and in sending forth mis sionaries to China, Spain and other countries. Of the latter, 179 were put in the field during the past year. These laborers received sala ries ranging from £150 to £75. “They go forth in the faith, and Mr. Muller,7 drily remarks The Free man, “evidently keeps their faith in active and constant exercise.” Apart from the orphans and ex clusive of foreign missions, some fifteen thousand* scholars have re ceived habitual instruction, while the adult pupils number 3,093. The sources of Mr. Muller's revenue are as unique as his methods. A gold watch and watch-guard, two gold brooches, three gold rings and a silver tooth-]Mck formed part of one offering. Another included four gold rings set with diamonds; a third, a gold bracelet set with rubies aud diamonds. One individual had ac cumulated a thousand pounds, with which be proposed to buy house and lands. > Bis mind was opened, Mr. M. tells us, and to the inspiration which came to him “he joyftilly re plied, 4 Lord, all I have and am is Thtne. I will gladly take the money to brother Muller/” In 1858, a chris- tiau cripple consecrated a penny a week to the Orphanage. At the year’s end she had, in addition, £15 laid aside for old age. In 1860 she doubled her offering, aud found her income doubled equally. Regularly increasing her charities, she finally, “in 1868, dedicated to the Lord Is. 8d. daily; and this poor helpless cripple, who began to store for the Lord with nothing, was now pos sessed of £250 at the dose of the year.” Mr. TCuller boldly adduces this illustration as proof of what be seems to think as inflexible as any law of Buckle’s, vi*; that who ever really, faith folly and habitually “gives as the Lord prospers him,” will fiud it the best remedy against heavy bad debts, against other loss es in business, and against bad times. Concerning the Christian morality of gifts based upon such purely worldly or—what Mr. Matthew Arnold would style—Philistine expectations, Mr. M. is regrettably not sufficiently ex plicit. A Mistake.—Many Christians im agine that, now since they have believed, they must draw their com fort from some other source, or in a different way from what they did at first; they turn their whole atten tion to themselves, their experiences, and their graces. Forgetting that the true way of nourishing these is bv keeping their eye upon the cross, they turn it inward and try to nour ish them by some process of their own devising.