lue; but whether the minister is within, or is
away and is represented only by his palm-leaf dressing-gown, somehow the
spirit of peace seems always to abide there.

There is the ancient desk, which the minister's children, when they
were little, used to call the "omnibus," by reason of a certain vast and
capacious drawer, the resort of all homeless things,--nails, wafers, the
bed-key, curtain-fixtures, carpet-tacks, and dried rhubarb. Perhaps it
was to this drawer that the minister's daughter lately referred,
when she said that the true motto was, "One place for everything, and
everything in that one place."

Over the chimney-piece hangs a great missionary map, showing the
stations of the different societies, with a key at one side. This blue
square in Persia denotes a missionary post of the American Board of
Commissioners; that red cross in India is an outpost of a Presbyterian
missionary society; this green diamond in Arrapatam marks a station of
the Free Church Missionary Union. As one looks the map over, he seems to
behold the whole missionary force at work. He sees, in imagination, Mr.
Elmer Small, from Augusta, Maine, preaching predestination to a
company of Karens, in a house of reeds, and the Rev. Geo. T. Wood, from
Massachusetts, teaching Paley in Roberts College at Constantinople.

Thus the whole Christian world lies open before you.

Pinned up on one of the doors is the Pauline Chart. Have you never seen
the Pauline Chart? It was prepared in colored inks, by Mr. Parker, a
theological student with a turn for penmanship, and lithographed,
and was sold by him to eke out the avails of what are inaptly termed
"supplies." You would find it exceedingly convenient. It shows in a
tabulated form, for ready reference, the incidents of Saint Paul's
career, arranged chronologically. Thus you can find at a glance the
visit to Berea, the stoning at Lystra, or the tumult at Ephesus. Its
usefulness is obvious. Over the desk is a map of the Holy Land, with
mountain elevations.

The walls of the room are for the most part hidden by books. The shelves
are simple affairs of stained maple, covered heavily with successive
coats of varnish, cracked, as is that of the desk, by age and heat. The
contents are varied. Of religious works there are the Septuagint, in two
fat little blue volumes, like Roman candles; Conant's Genesis; Hodge
on Romans; Hackett on Acts, which the minister's small children used
to spell out as "Jacket on