few words to your son; the Holy Ghost is the
teacher for Him, and will not leave His work till he is happy.

I hope Mr. Wardle is improving in health. "And he shall sit as a
refiner and purifier of silver." Silver is spoilt if heated too much,
therefore the refiner sits watching; until it is purified when the
refiner sees his image reflected in its surface; so with us, our Lord
will see that we are not too much heated, only just enough to reflect
His image. Will you thank Mr. Fielden for his kind letter, I quite
feel for his trials in that district, but he has a fellow helper and
worker in his kind Lord who feels for him and will support him through
all. Give my kind regard to Spence, your wife and son, and to all my
friends.

And believe me my dear Mr. Johnson,

Yours sincerely,
C. G. GORDON."

Mr. Johnson writes:--

"One evening after I had been observing his patient endurance and
perseverance with one of the reckless, insolent lads as we left the
school, I, in a quiet pleasant way remarked "I fear Colonel, your
Christian work in Dark Lane Ragged School will never get the fame and
applause from this world that your military achievements in China have
lately secured for you."

"My dear Sir," he replied "If I can but be the means in the hands of
God of leading any of these precious sons to Jesus, I must place that
amongst the most glorious trophies of my life, and to hear the Master
at last say 'Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these,
ye have done it unto Me,' will be to me a resplendent undying glory
when so many of earth's fleeting honours have tarnished."

"It is impossible (says Lord Blatchford about General Gordon) to
imagine a man more completely in the presence of God, or more
absolutely careless of his own distinction, comfort, wealth or life. A
man unreservedly devoted to the cause of the oppressed. One bows
before him as before a man of a superior order of things." Mr.
Boulger says, "There will never be another Gordon." Sir William
Butler said of him, "He was unselfish as Sydney; of courage, dauntless
as Wolfe; of honour, stainless as Outram; of sympathy, wide-reaching
as Drummond; of honesty, straightforward as Napier; of faith, as
steadfast as Moore."

We believe Gordon answered to all these encomiums and well deserved them.

Edgmont Hake, writing of him says:--"He