psalms of David, and offered prayer.

Rev. E. P. Hammond is doing a grand work among children at the present
time in New York. I assisted in his meetings, and found a goodly number
of children inquiring after Jesus, and one afternoon there were a dozen
young men and women rejoicing in their sins forgiven, who had signed
the covenant.

The following letter will speak for itself regarding Mr. Hammond's work
here in this city among children, many of whom were brought to Christ:

"NEW YORK CITY, March 3, 1887.

"DEAR BROTHER YOUNG: I am engaged, night and day, holding meetings
here, I wish you could come up and attend some of the services; I
thank you for all your kind words. I am to be to-morrow at the
prayer-meeting as per bill. If you can be there I shall be glad to
see you.

"_One hundred and twenty_ here, gave their names to us yesterday,
saying they had been converted in these meetings (for the most
part). To-morrow night we go to Carle Hall. It will hold, perhaps,
three or four thousand. Pray for us.

"Yours in Jesus,

"E. P. HAMMOND."

The afternoon I visited the scene of his labors, he presented me with a
copy of his work entitled, "The Conversion of the Children," in which I
have found a very encouraging letter to workers among the little ones.
I use it here to illustrate the power of Divine grace, and to show that
wherever the effort is put forth to save the children, God blesses it.

The following letter will testify also to the power of the Gospel. It
is the production of one whom God has been graciously pleased to bless
in a marvellous manner among the young.

"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, September, 18, 1877.

"MY DEAR MR. HAMMOND: We oftentimes remember you, though few letters
have passed between us. My daughters and myself will never forget
your visit and the time of blessing then, and they, as well as
myself, send you most hearty salutations.

"Dear brother, my thoughts on the subject of the conversion of
children are the same as when I wrote that tract you refer to.[5] I
think I agreed with you in almost every thing but one, viz.,
expressing publicly an opinion on cases. It seems to me that we
should be cautious in so doing; for children themselves mistake
_feeling_ for _faith_; how easy, then, for us who do not know the
heart, to mistake in them a manifestation of feeling for evidence of
faith.