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VOL. XXVII. NO 20 THE BEATEN PATH, How often ono Item's the re mark in vindication' of some un usual Uno of thought or action: “Well, anything to got out of the bouton path.” Vet the fact that the path is a beaten one proves it to bo serviceable. In the couslant march of humanity those who wander-or. into by paths that lead nowhere be come hopelessly, bewildered; they catch at every passing fad and flimsy fancy, and out of them endeavor to form new theoriei of life and truth; they are continually searching for truth, blind to the fact that the path they have forsaken is absolutely paved with great truths. In their estimation, tn 1 1 exists anywhere else than there; that is just a road foi the unthinking herd, the plod ders who have not ambition to “soar on wings of unfettered thought,” and so they wander on, constantly mistaking the “shadow for the substance,” until the beaten path is left so far 111 the distance that even their standards of right and wrong become vague and un certain.' . No; we must walk in the beaten road of common sense and common usage. Al' of our duties lie there, and it we loruako it, we deliberately turn away from them. Char acter develops along this road. The men and women who ac complish great things in the world walk here, and if happi ness or peace of mind exij,„- anvwhero, it must be on this w. ll tried path.—Margaret Max well. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUS TRIAL. Water pipes of paper are a success in England. Philadelphia i.i to buy Prof. Cope’s collection of lossils for $ hO,OOO. Aluminum helmets have not proved entirely successful in the German Army. • Dr. E. C. Stirling. F. R.S., andennees that he iias discov ered in the dry basin of a South Australian lake, remains ol au extinct bird which, in lile, measured t\v- lve feet in height. Rowlocks which prevent the oar from slipping, and turning around are formed with a metal plate screwed fast' to the under side of the oar, fastened to an upright pin bv a hinge, so the oar can move freeiy up and down and back and forth, the pin being locked fast to the boat. A new combination for wheel men consists of a bicycle sup port and tire inllator in one, the device being clamped onto the frame of tho wheel and fit ted with a tube to connect it with the valve, the piston rod being extended and locked fast Wfien it it* desired to support tll“ wheel. A French sci otitic writer points out iliut a mere gain in weight should not, in itself, be taken as an indication of im proved bodily condition. It is, according to him, rather a ques tion of the density than of (he quantity of tis-ms that cover the boms. When increase of weight results from increased density, then the le-altl) is real ly improved, The legs of insects are pecu liarly adapted to tin ir modes of life. The Water beetle's leg is provided with miction disks, which enable bill) to cling to anything lie touches and to walk upside down. Ants, beetles and other insects have small, line combs on their legs, which tiny use simply to brush oft' their antenna-. This is what the common bouse llv is doing w hen you see him rub Ins legs ( ver the fore part of Ills bead. The outlerpilla is supplied with abdominal legs, which disap pear wln-u he becomes a moth or a butterfly. “All editors duty,” says un exchange, “is tn hj.ouU of his town as the* holiest place he- Death the blue arch of heaven. Speak of a deceased citizen as a ‘fallen oak’ when he died .of jim-jams. Call a man a prom, jnent. inlluential citizen when you know he is the best poker flayer in town. Speak of a Jtreet A«th as a bright-eyed youth on the road to fame; a big-footed, newly married wo man as the bountiful and ac complish'd bride, Call a man » r, has a few dusty bolts id '*o and a soldiers blue coat, prosperous and experienced dry goods merchant; call a law yer a leading light, of whom the profession should b« proud, when you know him t< he an or dinary pelt ifoger. —Comanche (Tex ) Chi' f. lit.K.VS ARNICA SAI.VK Pp- tp'.p Salve in the wurlit fill C’uls,' itruises, Se.es, Sal Itheuni, Tt*t»t r, < hapjM tl 11 *ml CJJjilfolaiMS « Mfii* itiitl till Skin Krupt mis, Hit* 1 jKi.-itiv**!y cures piles, »»r ii*i ji;*y equiivd, I i* jjlitiatitec.il to ve pcrlect silt i»*fH* - jjiunjur iMuiiey rclumlHti Price 2ft ceilfs v Ihii Kor *hlh by A. M.Wiou Lawreacevule Ga THE GWINNETT HERALD. IN LOVE AND WAR. When Charles was thirty In decided that he had gone to school long enough. Ilia fath er had arrived at that conclu sion years before, but the son’s indomitable determination to conquer at least the rudiments of his profession before lie should enter upon active prac tice, made liin'i deaf to all pa ternal entreaties to return home, until one morning lie waked up to find that his thick bronze beard had developed several actually gray threads. Consequently, one fine spring morning all Blissfield was elec trified to see. as it. passed the quaint old Dayton homestead, a modest, little gilt sign bear ing the simple words, “Dr. Charles Dayton.” He didn’t “take” at first. He wore short coa's in direct opposition to all former ideas of the professional man’s dress, and lie didn’t seem to remem ber anybody whom he had known in his youth. It wasn’t because he was proud, he knew, but lie bad been occupied with graver things during his absence than remembering who was the sister •to his Sunday-school teacher, and who married the youngest of t he Barker girls. But after a year or so of doubt they Bogan to understand him, especially when his supe rior skill hud saved the darling of nearly every household in town when the scarlet fever threatened to lil! the tiny grave yard on the edge of town. Dr. Charles, ns they learned to call him, had an additional trait in his favor; he knew how to neglect each and every wo man in Blissfield with equal severity. Not that women en joy being neglected, but they always develop a sort of respect for a man who doesn’t stoop to them, provided ho is consistent in his frigidity to all the wo men in the place. At the end of five years two things had taken place in Bliss lield. Dr. Charles was the-idol of the town, and young Tom, tho baby of the Dayton family, was going to celebrate reaching his majority by taking unto himself a wife. It. was an awful mistake, thought the whole household when the downy-cheeked Tom stood up in blushing bravado on bis return from his junior year at college, and persisted in bis statement that lie was mver gi ing to school again. For that fall he was to become the husband of the dearest lit tle girl in all the world. But reason settled upon them, and the only stipulation was that the little maiden should come for a visit to the family of her future husband some time that summer. One morning rate in July Miss Dayton and her brother Tern set out for the East, and returned a week later with the tiny lady, who was in a pretty stete of nervousness at the strangeness of the situation. Dr. Charles was out in the country at. the bedside of a pa sient, and when, after mid night, he stumbled in, dripping, splashed with mud after his long ride in the storm and sick at heart (his patient had died in spite of his elTorts) he hud forgotten all about the expect ed visitor till he caught sight of a little sailor hat and a pair of crumpled gloves on the table in the hall. 11 seemed so very odd to find young, so daintily feminine, in this staid old house, that be stood long in the dimly-lighted hall, alisently smoothing out the tiny gloves, pressing each linger in place and noting with an indulgent smile that a but ton was missing from the left wrist. Dr. Charles slept badly that night and awoke with the sun in spite of the late hours of the night before Some way the lirst tiling to come into bis mind as he opened his eyes was the rumpled, tiny, buttonless gluve in the hall helow, and the more he tried tu throw oil the memory ttie closer it clung to him. When he reached the lower hall he found himself again hy the little table with the little hat and gloves, and lie put out his hand with a touch almost caressing. Just as his fingers LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 27th 1897. met the pretty feminine trifles he heard a fresh young voice just, behind him saying: “I’ll take these, if they are in your way. I forgot them last night.” Dr. Charles wheeled about guiltily. There, on the lower step, was a young girl, looking straight at him from the most baby-like blue eyes ever light ing the face of woman. Dr. Charles, later on, in an alyzing his feeling, realized that he had experienced three dis tinct. sensations at the first sight of her. First, that of the critic, in which lie was amazed to see here in the actual flesh the girl whom lie hud always before thought existed only in senti mental novels. Secondly, as the physician, who frowned at the extreme slightness of the figure, the frail waist, the tiny neck. And lastly, as the man, who wanted to take her close in his arms, to kiss her, to love her. and to call her his own. “I really must beg you to forgive me, but a young lady is so rare a pleasure in this house that. I was overwhelmed at my good fortune.” Finally, gathering himself to gether, he walked over to her, and, taking one of her hands in each of his, he said, gravely: “You are to be my sister, I suppose, fam brother Charles. ’ Eloise was herself again, and smiled charmingly as she said: “I knew you immediately. I’ve known you for a long time, I think, for Toni talks of you all the time.” e She was most delightful, Dr. Charles confessed, but some way it rankled that she should accept him so much as a mat ter of course. He would have i preferred her to look upon him more as a man t<> be studied rather than a problem already solved. What a fool lie had been to cull her his little sister. He didn't want to think of her as a sister: lie didn’t want her ever again to speak of Tom in that familiar way, as though every thing was settled. Then he deliberately drew iier close to him and kissed her Tairly on her smooth, white forehead. She struggled away with a little cry, while her face grew deadly pale. Then she said with a nervous, hurt little laugh which sounded pitifully like a sob: “Of course, since you are Tom’s brother.” When he came down to break fust he found the family at. the! table, but Tom rose with a strange new pride to present his lady love to his fine big brother. Then the physician said, in a - grave, calm tone: “I met Eloise in the hall this morning. I kissed her. ” If consternation had been in her midst, before, it. now rose to j a terrible pitch. Toni’s fingers j clutched the edge of the table | and he drew his breath sharply, i when little Eloise, with that tact which heaven sometimes sends women in their times of peril, answered: “Yes, and he called me his little si-der. He isn’t much used to kissing n girl, though, 1 know, for he did it so queerly, and—he kissed me on the fore head, Tom, while you always choose my lips.” It was an awfully bold thing to do, but then it is the light ning flash which clears the sky. The lover wavered, tried to speak once or trice, and dually ended by bending over and sa luting tile little girl squarely on Die lips, “There, sweetheart, we’ll | show him how it ’s done. ” And ' the amazed Miss Elizabeth ejaculated, “Mercy me!” so loudly, tliut the whole party went off into a nervous but steadying laugh. Dr. Charles look up his med icine case and hurried down the street the instant that the uieul was oyer. lI H stayed away for three days and nights, but when Sunday came lie appeared among as usual, apparently as grave, us preoccupied us hefon*. the tiny Eloise came to Bliss field. He did not aeeompany them to church, but as ho watched her hy Tom’s side, duinty in the suowy uiusliu gowns she wore so much, he tnrn.-d away with a mighty purpose in }iih eyes. From that instant it. was fated that. Eloise should be the wife of the man who didn’t know how to kiss her, instead (d the gay-hearted boy whose privilege it now was to claim her as his own. One morning, when Eloise had been laughing with tin family on the shaded lawn, a telegram was brought her an nouncing the sudden death o’ her lather, and so Elizabett and Tom started suddenly away from Blisslield with their ter ror-stricken charge. Tom decided to return to college, but he stoutly refused to go back to his former school, which was near Eloise’s home, but. chose instead a seat of lean ing fart her east. Finally one February morn ing there arrived a short, un happy note, in which poor Eloise begged to come to visit the Dayton family, “Mamma is at sister’s, whose baby ba the scarlet fever, so they won’t let, me stay with them, and it is so lonesome here in this hig house with no one but the ser vants. Besides. I want to tall to you about Mr. Thomas Day Dr. Charles’ heart leaped foi joy. This formal “Mr, Thom as Dayton” spoke volumes. And so the little girl came to Blissfield the second time, and reached the Dayton home on another stormy night, this time to be welcomed by tile bearded doctor standing by the glowing lire and Jedding out both his hands. Elizabeth the next day fold him all Eloise’s confes sions of Tom’s neglect, and add ed: "She puzzles me, Dr. Charles. She doesn’t seem to be half so broken-hearted as I expected. I really think that her pride is hurt.worse than her affections. And I thought she loved him so. ”, The climax came when a whole week passed without a letter from Tom, and Eloise, setting her white lips and blink ing back her tears of mortifica tion, wrote to offer to release him from his engagement. The speed and eagerness with which he accepted almost took her breath away. Dr. Charles was standing in the ball in the twilight, Is fore the grate, where lie had wel comed her the stormy uiglit a few weeks ago. As his eyes fell on Eloise, half broken, half radiant, there sprang into them such a light as made her drop her own. She realized that Elizabeth iiad told him tlie-whole pititill, shameful little story, even to sending t'.e ring hack in its tiny white satin ( hed, and yet, somehow,* she never was so happy before. “Yon are free again, Eloise?’ lie hint taken the little- left hand and turned it till the (Re light showed the bare third finger. And poor Eloise could only suv a little" half sobbing ,s v, »» 1 es. “Then,” suid Dr. Charles, solemnly, “1 may ask you to give up that, freedom uguiii, and to teach me to kiss you as Tom did.’—Chicago Tribune. Once a gentlemen reproved Ins negro servant for serving a duck for dinner to which there was only one leg, lie suspect ed Sum of having eaten the missing limb. “Oh no, sir,’ replied Sam. •Th ese ducks have only one leg.” “Indeed I” said the master. 1 must see tliem.” So the next morning lie told Sam t" show him the one legged ducks. Sam conducted hi» master to the poultry yard and pointed to half dozen ducks, each stunding on one leg near the pond. “There, sail!” lie exclaimed. 'l’ll faster waved his arms anu cried out, ‘‘Shoo! shoo!,’’ und the ducks scampered away. “How uhout that!” he said turning to Sam. “Tliaa’s right, sab,’’ returned Sam ca'mly, “hut wh, didn’t yo’ slum ile oiler duck wat wus on the tuble las’ nigut?'*—New Orleans Picayune. ■ Some people won’t advertise because they say the paper is notread, lint just let one of them he caught kissing another man’s wife or trying to hold up the side lit a building some dark night and Ins time changes. If the printing ollice is in the gar ret of a seventeen story build* mg he will climb to the top to ask the editor to keep i]uiet.— Dublin Telephone. Mo ion Overruled SUPREME COURT REFUSES A NEW TRIAL FOR PERRY. TIIK DECISION IN ECU, Berry v. the State. Before Judge Candler. Dekalb Superior court . Lumpkin, P. J.—l Although in order for the holding of a qiecial term of a superior court •nay recite “that Here is im portant bimineas pending in that court, and that it is to the interest of that county” that such special term lie held “for lie trial of the same,” it is nevertheless lawful, at the spe cial term, to dispose of any business properly coming before the c-ouit. whether tho saim was pending therein when the order was passed or not. Wl.e e sioh an order expressly directs lie drawing of a grand jury for the special term, it obviously ontemplates the trial at that ttrm ol any indictment which may be returned. 2. A writing signed by a per son since deceased, when in ur ticulo mortis and conscious ul his condition, is, when accom p uned / by evidence show in * that it was read over to him, that he understood its contents, .and that lie intended it as his dying leclatalion, admissable in evi dence so far it relates to “the •auso of his death and the per son who killed him,” no matter when or by whom it is prepared; the circumstances attending its preparation, and any question is to whether or not the de c-ased understood its contents, b dug for consideration by the jury in determining what weight should be attached to such dec laration . ft. Where a specified portion of such a declaration relates to events occurring a considerable time before the homicide and does not fall within tho provis ions of tho statute under which dying declarations are admitted in evidence, such portion, upon a distinct objection thereto properly and duly made, should lie excluded: but erroneously allowing it to go the jury is not cause for a new trial when it could neither have had any b aring whatever upon the ques tion of the guilt or innocence of the accused, nor in any man ner have operated to his preju dice. •1. While it is the right of any o ie on trial for muriior to at tack, when put in evidence against him, the dying declara tions of the deceased by preving his general bad character, the refusal of a continuance to en able the accused to produce evi dence ft r this purpose is not cause for a new trial when, in di-pend* ntly of the dying dec larations, his guilt was unequiv ocally established, ami the rec ord ns a whole conclusively shows that being deprived of tlm impeaching evidence did him iij injury. f>. Whether this court should deal with the errors pointed out in-the two preceeding notes ex clusively with reference to their tearing upon tin- < o -redness of the jury’s conclusion of fact that the accused man was guilty of the crime of murder, or should also in this connection consider the question whether or not these errors in any man ner contributed to the refusal by the ury to relieye the ac cased oi the death penalty by recommending his imprison ment for life, there should be no new t rial in the present case This is beyond doubt true if the duty of this court in this re spect i» limited as first indica ted; an I even if such duty ex tends to making the additional inquiry suggested, the answer thereto which the record imper atively demands is, that neither the refusal of the continuance, nor admitting the illegal evi dence. nor both combined, when these mutters are considered in the light of the undisputed facts of this ease and of the state ment of the accused, ought to, or in any degree of probability would, have caused any modi fication of the general verdict of guilty in which the trial re sulted. (1. An introduction in a trial for murder, to the effect that it is iuiiii iterial from what source malic springs, does not inter fere with or abridge “the pre rogative of the jury to recoin mend imprisonment for life;” nor is it, in such a trial, erro neons to charge that the inulice “Used not exist fur any length us tint"” previous to the homi cide. 7. |t being manifestly true that lln< presumption of malice which the law raises from proof of a homicide may he rebutted hy any evidence introduced at the trial, whether hy the state or by the accused, the sollowing charge was erroneous; “Wbeto the homicide is proved by the state to be the act of the de fendant, the law presumes mal ice; and unless the evidence of fered to prove the homicide should relieve the defendant or mitigate the crime, he should be found guilty of murder, as charged.” This charge, in the present case, did the accused no injury, because thero was nothing in the evidence offered by him which could have re duced the grade of the homi cide below that of murder. 8. Where in such a trial it was conclusively proved that the accused deliberately armed himselt with deadly weapons lor the purpose of killing the deceased,fand with one of them accomplished this purpose, a charge that providing weapons was a circumstance, which the jury were authorized to consider in determining whether or not there was malice, was not harm till to the accused because it tailed to state that the purpose tor which the weapons were provided should also be consid ered in passing upon the que* tion of malice. 9. A charge to the effect that a homicide committed on Monday could not be justified by proof of an offense commit ted upon the wife of the accuser! mi the preceding Friday, was certainly correct; and the fact that the latter, in his statement claimed that lie did nut until Saturday know of the crime which he alleged had been com mitted upon iiis wife by the de ceased on Friday, did not ren der the charge erroneous; for though it may not have been precisely adapted to the facts in issue, it was, as an abstract proposition, sound law. 10. One against whom, or whose wife, an ofl'ense no mat ter how heinous has been com mitted, cannot in law be justi fied “in taking vengeance in his own hands and in deliber ately seeking out and following up the wrongdoer and slaying him.” 11. The question of “cooling time” cannot arise, and the law of voluntary manslaughter has no application in a case where the slayer premeditated the homicide, made careful prepara tions to take the life of the de ceased, and, after hunting him down, deliberately slew him. 12. Where it appears that tin judge gave in charge to the jury •the statutory provisions relat ing to the prisoner’s statement, an assignment of error com plaining of failure to give any instructions “ag to what legal effect the statement of the de fendant should have, if such statement was believed by the jury,” but not pointing out what the accused coutened this effect should be, or what partic ular instruction should have been given in this connection, is without merit. 111. It is not, in a crimiual triul, erroneous to prevent counsel, in opening the defense, from making lengthy andaugu mentative statements as to ir relevant matters, or from stat ing what could be proved by the wife of the accused, she being in such an incompetent witness ’for any purpose. 14. The grounds of the mo tion for a new trial, save as to certain of them which present no new question of law and which do not disclose the com mission of any error, and cer tain others not approved by the trial judge, are covered by the preceding notes; the evidence mode a plain and unmistakable ease of willful and deliberately premeditated murder; the state-* ment ot the accused wus practi cally u confession of guilt, and it is certain that the jury did not believe that portion of the same, alleging the reason for wliicli the crime was committed. There is nothing in the record which would wurrant this court in (listurbing the geut-rul ver dict of guilty which the jury rendered. Judgement affirmed. All the justices concurring, except Atkinson and Cobb, J. J. dis senting.—Under the provisions of the penal code, murder is a capital felony only when the jury u|ton the final trial fail, upon finding a verdict of guilty, to recommend the accused to the mercy of the court, or that he imprisoned in the peniten tiary for life; and in mukiug such recommendation no limi tations are or can be imposed either upon their discretion or their power. Upon the ques tion of punishiAent, a* upon all others, the ucoused i*«entitled to be tried in accordance with law; and therefore if the trial judge should illegally admit evi dence which would injuriously affect his interest, or illegally withhold from the jury relevant evidence which would be bene ficial to him in deforming that question, such action is necessa rily prejudicial to the accused, and this court cannot hold as a matter of law, even though the evidence demanded u verdict of guilty, that the admitting or withholding of such evidence would not or ought not to have, influenced the jury to add to the verdict of guilty such a ree oinmendatiou as would have re duced the grade of offense below 1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE the grade to capital felony. 2 That “tho evidence made a plain and unmistakable case of willful and deliberately pre meditated murder,” that “the statement sis the accused was practically a confession ol guilt,” and that “it is certain that the jury did not believe that portion of the same alleg ing the reason for which the homicide was committed,” are no valid reasons for sustaining a general verdict of guilty, when the record clearly* dis closes that errors were commit ted which were calculated t< prejudice the accused when the jury should have under consid eration the question of punish ment. T. M. Peeples, R. B. Russell, Braswell A r Smith, Hoke Smith and H. C. Peeples, for plaintiff in error. J.M, Terrell, attorney gen eral, \Y. T. Kimsey, solicitor general, Glenn A Roundtree, and John U. Cooper, contra. The following composition by a little girl won a prize, a. fruit cake, offered by a school Miss: “Pants are made for men and men for pants. Woman was made for men and not for pants. When a man limits for a woman and a woman for a man, they are a pair of pants. Such pants do not last. Pants are like mo lasses. they are thinner in hot weather and thicker in cold. The man in the moor, changes his pants during an eclipse. Do Dot go the pantry for pants. Men are often mistaken in pants. Such mistakes are often breeches of promise. There has been much discussion as to whetler they are singular or plural, and when they don’t wear any it is singular. Men get on a tare in their pants, and its all right; but when women tear their pants its all wrong. — Ex. HUMOR OF THE DAY. There's Charley Skates in black; l wonder if he is mourn ing for his sins. No, 1 don’t think they’re all dead yet. Jinks—Was his father a great man ? Blinks —I guess: he doesn't seem to amount to much him self. Spvkes—Do you have any trouble meeting your creditors? Spokes—Not at all. I find my trouble in dodging them Detroit Free Press. Freddy—What is a bucket shop, papa? Papa—A bucket shop, my son, is the business place of the broker across the way.—Non- York Advertiser. Did you get your name clear ed in that investigation?’ asked the Alderman’s friend. “No,’ was tho gloomy answer ‘lt is still mud.’—Philadel phia Journal. Blizzard Bill —I have seen cy. clones out West that blew the bark of of tro"s. Texas Tom —That’s nothing. 1 saw one once that blew the bark off a bull-dog,—Truth. To “Reader.” To-morrow will be Wednesday. To-morrow isn't Wednesday, substHiitially jor the same reason that yester day isn't Monday. Grasp it? —Chicago Tribune. INTERESTING FACTS. Germany makes 2,000,000 false eyes annually. Only one person in one thous and reaches 100 years of age. Women load und unload ves sels in some of the Japanese ports. Russia has, outside of the Black sea, a war fleet of 17ft vessels. The gondolas of Venice are being gradually displaced by little steamboats. More than 1,800 varieties of roses have been cultivated dur ing the present century. Forty-four acortchers were fined ff> each in the recorder’s court in Detroit one morning last week. The Schiller Stifung, in Ger many, distributed last year more than 12,000 marks among the indigent families of author* Rossini used to embrace es fusively every Spaniard he met, because, “but fur Spain Italy would be last among the na tions.” Copper coins ure not in use at Johannesburg at all, the lowest piece ot money being the threepenny bit —called “tiekey. ” An ostrich lives about thirty years, and the average annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes. It is officially declared that the bubonic plague exists ill Jeddah, Arabia, Keep ass account with each i field ou the farm, POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening sarepgth and healthfulness, .As sures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Koyai. Hakim* I’OWDKK < OMPAfiY, XKW YoHK. MISSIONARY COL UMN. [This column is devoted to the missionary enuse, and is ed ited by the W. F. M. Society, Lawrenceville auxiliary. ] That the desolate poor may find shelter and bread, That 1 he sick may he comforted, nourished and fed; That the sorrow may cease, of the sighing and sad; That the spirit bowed down may be lifted and glad, We pray thee, merciful Lord. That brother the hand of his brother may clasp, From ocean to ocean, in friend liest grasp; . That for north and for south, and east and for west, The honor of wot he forever at rest, We prhy thee, merciful lord. For blessings of earth, and of air, und of sky, That fall on us all, from the Father on high, For the crown of all blessings since blessings begun, For the gift ‘‘the unspeakable’ gift,"of thy Son, We praise thee, gracious God. S. E. Adams. It is the will of Christ that Christianity shall he the ulti mate religion of the world; and not only is it God's purpose, ' but it is also self-propagating. ; Therefore, coldness toward mis sions is nothing but coldness |toward God. Christian missions are essentially u part of the • church’s life, and the day when any faitli. ceases so extend is the duy of the begiuing of its decav and death. We have to make deciplcs of all nations. There are no excepnons or con ditions to be considered. Bishop Wkstcott. THE POWER OF PRAYER. It lias been much laid on my heart to circulate the scriptures. In answer to prayer I have had the joy of circulating 274,000 Bibles, anil 1,425.000 New Tes taments, besides very many thousands of portions of the Scriptures in various languages. As soon ns I was converted I desired to be a missionary, and at different times in the first eight years I offered myself as a missionary; but the more I prayed about it, the more clear ly 1 saw that it was not Qod's will that I should go out to the heathen, because He intended to use me far more iu Europe than if 1 had goue to India. Meanwhile I felt it to be my privilege to give every shilling or pound I could for missionary objects, and 1 prayed the herd to send nn money for these ob jects, and from very small be ginnings the Lord sent me motl ey iu abundance, eveu by thous ands of pounds at a time, so that I have received for missions alone about $1,207,500 simply in answer to prayer. This large sum lias been sent to hundreds <>f missionaries, in all parts of the world, in jmint of fifty dol lars and two hundred and fifty dollars or more at a time. Mr. Hudsoii Taylor, encouraged by tha way God had helped me, went out to China in depend ence’ on God and in ULioit with Mr. Jones, did so apart from any society, simply tiustiug in God. They had their trials by faith, but they found how faithful God is to those who trust him, and l have had the joy of help ing many of the laborers *of China Inland Mission, which is now brobably the greatest Mis sionary institute iu tbt world, and thousands of Chinese have been sayed by its instrumental ity. GkoSUK MI'tREJR. “There doth uot Jive Any so poor but he may give, Any so rich but may receive. ’’