trusted that Florence would be the first place of work as he said he had a strong expectation that in Florence Dr. S. will find a preparedness which may not be had in any of the other cities. Rev. Mr. GAULT.-There is a very important mission in Glasgow under the title of the Turkish Missions Aid Society, and we find a very good work going on in the Turkish Empire. There is an old Christian Church, the Armenian, which has been, within the last forty or fifty years, undergoing a great change for the better. They are nominally Christians, but corrupt in doctrine and worship. Let us have faith that in this year there will be more progress than in any previous year. What we want is, not only ministers, but every individual to take part in the work. God has given every one of us something to do. A WORKER said,-I rise for the purpose of bearing testimony to the rich blessing God is giving us at home amongst the poor, degraded class cursed by the drink. At a meeting of the workers, it was reported that 100 had been visited during the month, and four-fifths were standing by the pledge they had taken. At a meeting held in Kilsyth, a strong miner, thirty-two years of age, was so affected that he sprang up and shouted, "Glory be to God for such a Saviour! thirty-two years have I given to the devil, sin, and drink, but by the grace of God it has ended to-night," and broke down and sobbed like a child. would earnestly request your prayers for much blessing on the meetings to be held during the next eight or ten days at Kilsyth. I A GENTLEMAN from Edinburgh commented on the world's carelessness in regard to the matters of eternity. A hymn being sung, the meeting was closed with the benediction. GOD'S WORK IN DUMFRIES. Ir has often been our desire to send you an account of the work of God, in the different places in which it has been our privilege to preach unto the people "Jesus;" but up to this time our desire has never developed into action. The Master's quarrymen have for many a year been blasting the rocks of sin in Dumfries in the ordinary way; to which the people have now got so used that they look on with calm indifference. It was therefore laid on our hearts to step out of the usual order of things, even though we should lay ourselves open to the charge of being eccentric, "if by any means we might win some." On Sabbath evening, 29th February, we marshalled a ians who were not clear as to marching the Sabbath before; but whose scruples had been taken away. The streets were thronged with people who were expecting our appearance, and every one in the ranks was scanned and marked for the future. Our meeting place was well filled, the Lord was with us, and many found " peace in believing." believing." After concluding our meeting in the hall, we again marched to one of the squares of the town, and it has seldom been our privilege to address so large an audience in the open air as we had that night; but the Master had seen fit to let us have a little persecution ere the day was done. We had just begun our service, when "certain lewd fellows of the baser sort" (chiefly Roman Catholics), stirred up by women of the same persuasion, begun to stir up strife in the crowd! Ladies were jostled in a most unmerciful manner, gentlemen had their hats put down over their ears, and many other indignities we suffered cheerfully for Jesus' sake; but as the result of that night's maltreatment, our meetings have been larger this week than ever, and great numbers are coming to Christ. Truly the Lord is with us, His power is being manifested. To Him be all the glory! few of the Lord's people in the public square of the town, THIS is one of the many names of the Lord Jesus. He sang a few hymns and spoke to those who gathered round, of "the Salvation of God;" then forming ourselves into marching order, "threes deep," we proceeded through the principal streets of the town to the enlivening strains of "The Gospel Band has now set out." A great number of loungers from the street corners followed us, out of curiosity, and on hearing at the door of our hall that all were welcome to come in, that our service was just for an hour, &c., they thought they might as well come in and hear what we had to say. Our hall was well filled, the people listened attentively as we told them of the "Mighty to Save," and one or two we believe accepted Christ as their Saviour. Throughout the week the work went on steadily, many completely broken down, and a goodly number have joined our ranks. Hallelujah! Four members of one family were brought in during the week, and the joy of their mother is indescribable. Last Sabbath, we again assembled in the public square, our ranks swelled by young converts, and by those Christ has many, many precious names. The great princes of this earth have a great many titles, so our great "Prince of Life" has many that describe His power, love, and grandeur. But, by-and-by, He will only have one (Zech. xiv. 9). Don't you wonder which He will choose out of all belonging to Him? The "Prince of Life." How many lives have you? One, you will say. True; but you have four kinds of life, just as you have five fingers on your hand, and yet it is only one hand. I will tell you of three kinds of life, and you will see that Jesus is the Prince of each of them. 1. Bodily Life. Your little body so curiously and beautifully made, that hand of yours so wonderful in its power and structure, who made it? Christ Jesus (Heb. i. 2; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Col. i. 16). He not only made you, but keeps you alive every moment. So He has a right to claim you as His own, to call Himself your Prince. Do you treat Him as your king, give Him love and obedience, and honour His command above all things? 2. Mental Life.-The animals have got bodily life, Jesus gave it to them; but they have not got mind and brain ; you and I have. We can reason and think and plan, we can study and speculate. Who made us able to do this? Why, the Lord Jesus! He can, in a moment, take away our reason, He can make us come into the world like those poor little idiots you often see; but He has not. He has given you and me mental life, and we should thank Him for it, and use our minds to think about Him and to study His love and goodness. 3. Spiritual Life.-If we had only bodies and minds, we should have but little! It would be like a living case for a dead soul, reminding us of the white shining sepulchres that were full of dead men's bones inside, or like the Dead Sea apple, red, ripe, and juicy to look at, but when you open it, you find it full of rottenness and dust. No one but Jesus could bring a dead body to life, and certainly no one but He could quicken a dead soul. He speaks to you and me, and our hearts wake up from their long cold sleep, begin to beat with new life, new love, new motives. He is the Prince of our spiritual life, He gives it and He keeps it. We put our money into banks and safes. We are afraid robbers may come and take it from us; Satan the great robber would steal away our soul-life if it was not hid in Jesus (Col. iii. 3.) Adam and Eve had life to keep at first by their own care and obedience, the devil came and robbed them! Now we give it to Jesus to keep for us and we are quite safe, for Satan can never pluck anything out of His hand. 4. Eternal Life.-The happiness of having spiritual life consists in possessing it for ever! Spiritual life is the beginning of eternal life, like the weak and tender bud which becomes by-and-by the full-blown flower, or the tiny mountain rill which widens into the mighty river. How do we get life eternal? I daresay you can tell me ; a text (John xvii. 3) will tell you. To know Jesus, to see Jesus is the way to obtain it. Christ is this life, He bought it; He gives it, He keeps it. We could not have earned it. Jesus is the Prince of Life, and He gives like a king, right royally. Well, now, you have seen the four kinds of life, do you think you have got them all? If you have only the first two, you are like the living case holding a dead soul. How are you to get the other two? Why, by coming to the One who gave you bodily and mental life, by going to the mighty Prince who has His hands ful SO. of rich gifts, and asking Him to make you complete; you MR. GEORGE H. STUART, of Philadelphia, having endorsed a bill for a friend, who has failed, has lost everything he possessed. Thousands who have admired his zealous and liberal support of every good undertaking for many years past, his really self-denying devotion to every effort designed to make men better, to relieve human misery, to advance the kingdom of our Lord, and promote a brotherly feeling among Christians of all denominations, will heartily lament the misfortune which has come upon him when advanced in years and broken in health. As was to be expected, he has surrendered everything to the creditors of the friend for whom he endorsed the bill; that they will take everything from such a man, the community will be slow to believe. REQUESTS FOR PRAYER. "He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when He shall hear it, He will answer thee."-ISAIAH XXX. 19. 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Now the character of Christ has been assailed, but the assailants have been refuted, even by sceptical writers who succeeded them. Now the life of Christ has been represented as legendary, but how was such a life imagined, or how did such legends grow up about it? Now it has been regarded as consciously overdrawn, with a certain amount of intended deception. But again it would be as much a miracle to portray such a life as to live it; and there is this increased difficulty, that those representing Jesus as uncompromising in His respect for Truth-as the Truth-were themselves, on such theory, writing for purposes of deception. Such contradiction is morally impossible. The only solution that will bear the test of examination is, that the life of Jesus, as He is described, is a reality; that He lived and moved and spoke as He is made to appear in the gospels. Such a life could not have been conceived by the imagination of the greatest writers that ever lived, much less by simple-minded unlearned men, as the evangelists. The greatest writers of all countries have felt that that life was immeasurably above them, as the heavens above the earth. The greater have been the gifts of men, the more have they stood in awe and reverence before the person of Christ, as represented in the gospels. Even Goethe, with his pan-theistic tendencies, but his wonderfully-clear literary insight, said, "I esteem the gospels to be thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendour of a sublimity, proceeding from the person of Jesus Christ, of so divine a kind as only the Divine could ever have manifested on earth." It is not his reference to the Divinity that is noteworthy, for this is capable of a double meaning, but his literary testimony to the transparent genuineness of the narrative. Carlyle, whose position as to theology is most unsatisfactory, but his insight into character almost unapproachable, speaks of "Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest symbol! Higher has human thought not yet reached-a symbol of quite perennial, infinite character, whose significance will ever demand to be anew inquired into and anew made manifest." Napoleon Bonaparte, whose knowledge of human character was immense in its range, conversing in St. Helena, said: "I know men, and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a mere man. Everything in Him astonishes me. His spirit, it overawes me, and His will confounds me. Between Him and whomever else in the world there is no possible comparison. His gospel, His apparition, His empire, His march across the ages and the realms-everything is for me a prodigy, a mystery insoluble, which plunges me into a reverie from which I cannot escape-a mystery which is there before my eyes-a mystery which I can neither deny nor explain." He then compares himself and others with Him, as to power over the hearts of men, and shows the utter nothingness in comparison of mere earthly greatness as compared with His. Even those who have attempted to explain away the life of Christ are compelled involuntarily to pay obeisance to it. tarily to pay obeisance to it. They cannot explain it, or even approach to an explanation. Strauss can make nothing of it. In his first "Life of Christ " he treats the |