ise them to look under the surface. Are there not

CAUSES FOR THE FAILURE?

Would it not be well to try what draining the land would do? Are the
most influential men cold and unresponsive to the call of the Spirit?
What sort of people take the lead in the prayer meetings? Are they left
to the zealous poor? Does every man of wealth and culture hurry home and
leave the preacher to shift for himself? Who are the stewards? Are they
men who will do their utmost to welcome strangers, or does their example
tell on others so much that a visitor never has a word of welcome or a
grip of the hand? What is the singing like? Is it of the colourless,
tame style, whose only sign of life is the rapid gallop which kills
devotion in so many places?

How is the Bible read by the preacher? Does he confine himself to the
narrow round which he has read so often in the ears of the people that it
has lost its charm--or does he seek out that which will be sure to
interest; and does he read as if he believed it?

We think our readers know some congregations in which there can be no
revival until the drainer has been at work, and that which starves the
seed removed. What we want is to have the question asked at the next
leader's or quarterly meeting.

WHAT WILL IT COST TO GET SOME DRAIN-PIPES?

A GOOD SHILLING IS
BETTER THAN
A BAD SOVEREIGN.

II. LITTLE MOSES.
SERVE THE CHILDREN FIRST.

The story of Moses teaches us that LITTLE FOLKS ARE VERY HELPLESS. There
he is in that basket. He cannot care for himself. He is in the power of
the king's daughter. If she liked she could have had him killed, for it
was plain to be seen that he was one of the Hebrew children. When you
were in your cradle how weak you were, how helpless. If your mother had
not cared for you, my dear boy, you would never have troubled the tailor
to measure you for your new suit. Do you ever think how much you are in
your mother's debt? When you were hungry she fed you, when you were cold
she warmed you, when you were sick she nursed you. And you can pay her
back. Not in money, for when you are old enough to earn gold you will
not be rich enough to do that; but you can reward her by obedience, by
love, and by letting her know by your kindness that you do not forget
what she did for you years ago.

LITTLE FOLKS ARE WATCHED BY GOD. The crocodiles could have swallowed up
the little chap at one mouthful, but they never even saw him. God
steere