tle boys and girls who have written to me, have said that they would
like to be missionaries.

One writes, "I should like to go and be a missionary, and instruct the
poor heathen children to love God."

A second says, "I have been selling matches that I made. I got five
dollars--just as many dollars as I am years old. I think I shall become
a missionary, and come and help you. I hope I shall see you again when I
come to Ceylon. Tell the heathen children they must love God, and be
good children. They must not give the children to the crocodiles, nor
throw them into the water; and they must not worship wooden and brass
gods. They must worship the true God, and keep his commandments."

A third says, "I like to send money to help the poor heathen to learn to
read the Bible, and other good books. I think it will be pleasant to
sail across the ocean, and teach them to turn from their idols. I would
teach them not to lay themselves down before the car of Juggernaut, and
be crushed to death; and I would teach them not to burn themselves to
death on the funeral pile."

A fourth says, "I mean to save something to send to you, to help support
one school. Should my life be spared, and the way be opened at some
future day, I think I should be willing to leave my native home, to go to
some distant land to tell the heathen of a Saviour, whom I hope I have
found."

A fifth says, "If you are ever in want of money, just please to send on
to me, and I will endeavor to raise all that you want. If I live to be a
man, I hope be a missionary to Ceylon or China."

One little boy wrote to me as follows: "I have for a long time been
saving three shillings, for the purpose of buying a little racoon, which
I intended to do on Monday. On Sunday I heard you preach, and thought I
would give it to you to save some poor heathen soul; and I hope you will
pray for me, that I may become a minister, and go to India, and preach
to the heathen."

Another writes, "This is to certify that I, Charles D.H. Frederick,
pledge myself, if God spares my life, when I get to be a man, and he
pardons me through Christ Jesus, I will go and preach to the heathen."

A little girl wrote me as follows: "According to my present feelings, I
should like to engage in so glorious a cause," as the missionary cause,
"and I hope, when I arrive at an age to be of use to God, and the poor
heathen, to embrace so glorious a cause."

Another little girl writes, "I felt very bad