rettily fitted up as the average home at the
North, while others are miserable apologies for the name.

I often, Sunday afternoons, take a bundle of papers and go through some
of the streets where I find boys playing ball or marbles, and flying
kites. When I ask why they haven't been to Sunday-school, or at home
reading, they tell me they have no clothes, and that they have nothing
to read at home; as I distribute the papers, they lay down bat and ball
and eagerly devour the stories and study the pictures.

I find some very bright little fellows among them. I asked one little
boy, "Won't you come to my Sunday-school?" He replied at once, "Oh yes."
I said, "Do you know where I teach?" The ready answer came at once, "Up
at the big college yonder," The next Sunday, as I went in, the first
child I saw was Dan. He sat with eyes and mouth wide open as we talked
about Joseph, sung our little hymns and repeated the commandments--
things he had never heard before. The next Sabbath he was there as
interested and eager as on the first, his bare feet hanging from the
chair; but the third Sunday as I went out the gate, there stood Dan,
forlorn enough. I said, "Aren't you going to Sunday-School?" He said,
"I can't go; my sister is married, my mother has gone crazy, and I
haven't a clean shirt." It would have melted the stoutest heart to have
heard his sorrowful tale. I found him soon after, and through the
kindness of a Northern friend in paying his tuition, I had him in my
school, where he proved himself bright and interesting.

I might cite many such instances that have come within my observation,
if time and space would permit. I long for much that is wasted at the
North to help many such bright, interesting, needy little children.

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RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1889.

MAINE, $352.06.

Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $3.50

Albany. Anna K. Cummings,
_for Mountain Work_ 2.00

Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.00

Bath. Winter St. Ch. 140.30

Bucksport. Y.P.S.C.E., by Charlotte
S. Barnard, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 20.00

Castine. Prof. Fred. W. Foster 1.44

Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (2.
of which _for Mountain Work_) bal. to
const., REV. GEO. W. REYNOLDS, JOHN A.
WATERMAN, STEPHEN HINCKLEY, J.S.
LEAVITT, JR., A.H. SAMPSON, MISS
MINNIE TOLFORD and MIS