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 this case was the missionary? A sew ing woman in Lowell, Mass, heard that a young man could be sent from the NeStOrian Protestant College Of Persia into the ministry for $50 year. So she sent one young man out into the work, scrupulously saving from her scanu earnings. Pleased at what she had been able to do, she sent an. other and another and another until five young men, as the result of this woman's toll, were preaching the gospel in the far East. When over sixty years old, she said, "I will send yet another,' and working in the dim light of her garret, she sewed her sixth young man in- to the Gospel ministry. Whose crown will be the brighter over there? Upon whom will the Saviour place the higher honors? Oh, we cannot tuck away the evangelization of the world into some sly corner, and act as if, should we give it too important a place, it would run wild with our en- ergies and wisdom. It is the business that the church has to do; it deserves the first place. It has the first place in Christ's mind; what place has it in yours. The early Church., so long as it stayed in narrow Jerusalem, all though 1t enjoyed continual love feast, never proved itself a power un- til it became a persecuted and so a missionary church. Certain branches of the Protestant church are to-day living at a poor dying rate because they are ministering to the intellect and forgetting that Christ called them Congregationalists, though feeble folk in number yet ranking highest in point of individual giving, have ever been in the vanguard of those who were earnestly pushing the Outposts of Gods advancing legions. My friends, it has fallen to our lot to have a missionary field spread out around us. This missionary field is growing, the problems of this country church are thickening. What are we to do as our strength is sapped out by the sucking reservoirs of the cities, as our New England homesteads are being filled with class alien to our institutions, coming from lands where liberty is un- known and where harsh deSpOtiSm drives out the power to think and to stand on ones feet and be man. Empty galleries are eloquent. Who | will be the pillars of the coming days? Who will fill these thinning ranks? l have plucked up my last endeavor and l brought to bear on the problem of the country church the best energy that l nIr hot of u0 O r c of steady pounding away the rampant remains as unshaken as before. hand over the problem now to you, my dear people, and ask Gods blessing upon ol in helping you to solve it. May new light break forth, may new strength be given, may new resources 6 b )und, this is my hope and my prayer. have heard often those who took part in it speak of Pickett's great ( h arge at the close of the second days fighting in the battle of Gettysburg For two flu days the dogs of war had been unchaineu; the star of fortune had wandered back and forth between the two contending lines. Something must be done to bring about the ell max. The flower of the Confederate host was drawn up in serried array and mar shalled over against the Union ranks where General Sedgwick and the Yer mont boys stood like stOnewall. Finer marching was never seen. Across the field they came in extended division. Pour out the shot upon them, load the shells, let the artillery roar. Not a step veers out of line, not a platoon wavers, not man falls to the rear. Throw in the shot by handfuls, let grape and canister sweep from every point; it cannot be that human beings 70 stand hofnra S11nh rakinD fire On they come, but the line is as unbroken as before. Great gaps yawn as the terrible cannOnading mows down half a pla tOon, now falling as autumn gusts shake down the dry leaves. The gaps are closed up and still the line comes on. They are now so near the Union forces that the Boys in Blue beat them back with the butts of their muskets. They cannot-they simply cannot break through that stone wall and so they retire, but as regularly, as bravely as they advanced to the charge. That, my friends, was as glorious work as the battlefield has ever seen and 1t brings to us lesson. We are all advancing for mighty charge upon the rampartS of sin; our host is the mustered legiOnS of God $ conQuering train. Sometimes wide gaps come in our ranks as death or circumstance takes the noble or the good from our side. In this war there is no retreat, in this battle no dis charge. Close up the ranks, my brothers, and press the battle on. Our great Leacer calls uS,and He has never never lost a fight. Do not be dis mayed because your earthly leader goes. The Hudson is still running with mighty tide to the sea, though the waters through which Hendrick Hud- son sailed, have long since passed.
 ETERNITY IS A MIGHTY RIVER, AND
 TIME IS SIMPLY ITS PASSING FLOW.
 God buries his workmen but his work moves gloriously on. And so we have labored together for these 12 long years and now time of change has come. We are not the same manner of men and women that we were then. I have learned some things, I know. How we'll 1 remember that day when I stood here as raw recruit from seminary halls. We have learned to agree. though we heartily disagree. We have had peace, constant peace, but not that of the stagnant pool that gathers the Slimy OOZe, rather that of the swift eagle which, poised on strong pinions, boldly seeks the sun. l think 1 can say that we have learned how to charity which cloakS the rugged traits of character as the soft haze covers e jagged mOuntainSide.
 Pivotal times are those when one stands at the center of a great circle