ped
with a trowel--there. And now, auntie, for the historical examples."

"My first," said Miss Huntingdon, "is that of a very remarkable man--
John Wesley, the father of the Methodists. An order having been made by
the House of Lords in his day for the commissioners of excise to write
to all persons whom they might have reason to suspect of having plate
without having paid the duty on it, the accountant-general for household
plate sent to Mr Wesley a copy of the order, with a letter stating that
hitherto he had neglected to make entry of his plate, and demanding that
he should do it immediately. Mr Wesley replied:--`Sir, I have two
silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol. This is all the plate
I have at present; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me
want bread.--Your obedient servant, John Wesley.'

"My next example is that of an equally remarkable man, Oberlin, the
French pastor of Ban-de-la-Roche, a wild mountainous district between
Alsace and Lorraine, where, single-handed, and in the midst of
extraordinary difficulties and privations, he was privileged to work
wonders amongst a most ignorant and poverty-stricken people. The
knowledge of several pious and excellent institutions had reached the
secluded valley where Oberlin was stationed before it was received by
the rest of France. No sooner had he learned that there were Christians
who left their homes to convey to the benighted heathen the promises of
the gospel, than he parted with all his plate, with the exception of one
silver spoon, and contributed the proceeds of the sale to mission work,
expressing at the same time his regret that he was unable to send more.
That one silver spoon he afterwards bequeathed as a legacy to the Church
Missionary Society.

"I have yet another example of the same kind to bring forward. It is
that of a most earnest and devoted American missionary, Reverend George
Bowen of Bombay. This good man was once an infidel. His father was a
rich man; but when he himself was converted, he gave up friends,
country, and fortune, and consecrated himself and his whole life to the
service of Christ among the heathen. For many years he lived in a
miserable hut in the native bazaar, among its sadly degraded population.
Yet he was a man of deep learning and refined manners, who had
travelled much, and knew some dozen languages. After spending about a
year in India, he was led to believe that his influence would be g