ingle one of those men was brought home to Him. But it
didn't stop there. Three of them became missionaries, to go and bring
others back to the fold in their turn. I tell you the solemn truth.
Already one thousand lost sheep, if not more, have been brought home
to the Good Shepherd through that sermon of yours, that day in the
backwoods, when you thought you were

PREACHING TO NOBODY!'

FOOTNOTES:

[42] _The American Friend_, 28th November 1895.

COME-TO-GOOD

_'Flowers are the little faces of
God.'--(A saying of some little
children.)_

_'To the soul that feeds on the
bread of life the outward
conventions of religion are no
longer needful. Hid with Christ in
God there is for him small place
for outward rites, for all
experience is a holy baptism, a
perpetual supper with the Lord,
and all life a sacrifice holy and
acceptable unto God._

_'This hidden life, this inward
vision, this immediate and intimate
union between the soul and God,
this, as revealed in Jesus Christ,
is the basis of the Quaker
faith.'_--J.W. ROWNTREE.

_'Here the pure mind is known, and
the pure God is waited upon for
wisdom from above; and the peace,
which hath no end, is enjoyed....
And the Light of God that calls
your minds out of the creatures,
turns them to God, to an endless
being, joy and peace: here is a
seeing God always present.... So
fare you well! And God Almighty
bless, guide and keep you all in
His wisdom.'_--GEORGE FOX.

COME-TO-GOOD

_One more Meeting-house to visit; the last and the smallest of all. A
Meeting-house with no story, except the story in its name.
'"Come-to-Good!"' boys and girls from other counties will exclaim
perhaps, 'whoever heard of such a place? Why did people not call it
"Come-to-Harm," or "Ne'er-do-Weel," while they were about it?'_

_Cornish boys and girls know better. They will explain that in their
far Western corner of England there has always been an idea, and a
very good idea it is, that a