o the General Assembly, on the wants of India. This old
missionary, after a brief address, told the pastors who were present, to
go home and stir up their churches and send young men to India to preach
the gospel. He spoke with such earnestness, that after a while he
fainted, and they carried him from the hall. When he recovered he asked
where he was, and they told him the circumstances under which he had
been brought there. "Yes," he said, "I was making a plea for India, and
I didn't quite finish my speech, did I?" After being told that he did
not, he said, "Take me back and let me finish it." But they said, "No,
you will die in the attempt." "Well," said he, "I will die if I don't,"
and the old man asked again that they would allow him to finish his
plea. When he was taken back the whole congregation stood as one man,
and as they brought him on the platform, with a trembling voice he said:
"Fathers and mothers of Scotland, is it true that you will not let your
sons go to India? I spent twenty-five years of my life there. I lost my
health and I have come back with sickness and shattered health. If it is
true that we have no strong grandsons to go to India, I will pack up
what I have and be off to-morrow, and I will let those heathens know
that if I cannot live for them I will die for them." The world will say
that old man was enthusiastic. Well, that is just what we want.

Forty-One Little Sermons.

A man was preaching about Christians recognizing each other in heaven,
and some one said, "I wish he would preach about recognizing each other
on earth." In one place where I preached, I looked over the great hall
of the old circus building where it was held, and saw men talking to
other men here and there. I said to the Secretary of the Young Men's
Christian Association who got up the meeting, "Who are these men?" He
said, "They are a band of workers." They were all scattered through the
hall, and preaching and watching for souls. Out of the fifty of them,
forty-one of their number had got a soul each and were talking and
preaching with them. We have been asleep long enough. When the laity
wake up and try and help the minister the minister will preach better.

GOLD.

-- It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

-- I believe in what John Wesley used to say, "All at it, and always at
it," and that is what the Church wants to-day.

-- If we were all of us doing the work that God has got fo