, the same man
and family, minus the mother and baby, occupied the same pew. After the
service, this man came to me, and with deep emotion said: "I am only a
working man; you saw my large family of little children; every penny I
can earn counts, but I feel that I must divide the living of my children
with these poor people you have told us of to-day. We can get on with
poorer food to give them the gospel."

This was said in the accent that told that this Christian nobleman came
from old covenant-making and covenant-keeping Scotland! Not a very
"dangerous foreigner!" Money given from such extreme sacrifice is
sacred. Would this spirit were universal!

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The close relation existing between the work of the American Missionary
Association for the colored people in America, and that of the American
Board for the colored people in Africa, is most interestingly
illustrated by a contribution which has recently reached this New
England office. Rev. B.F. Ousley of Kambini, East Africa, sends a
contribution of ten dollars for the Theological Department in Fisk
University, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Ousley and wife are graduates of Fisk
University and went out as missionaries to Africa under the American
Board, four years ago. After these years of experience they realize that
Africa must be evangelized by colored people trained by A.M.A. schools,
and they make this generous contribution to this grand work.

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A suggestion made in the Boston "Ministers' Meeting," on the question,
"How to conduct a prayer meeting," might be very appropriately applied
to missionary concerts and addresses. This was the suggestion: "Keep the
temperature warm, the atmosphere clear, and don't pommel the
Christians!" Applied to missionary concerts and addresses, this sound
advice would read: Keep the missionary temperature warm by telling
incidents of missionary experience; keep the missionary atmosphere clear
by presenting the grand hopefulness of the glorious work, and don't
pommel those who attend these meetings and give to these causes!

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Patriotism is all aglow among the boys and girls of New England just
now! More than twelve hundred have enlisted recently in the army of the
"True Blues." Pastors, Sunday-school superintendents and teachers,
officers of Young People's Societies of Christian Endeavor, and other
missionary societies