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Items of Missionary IntelUgence.the posthumous reputation of our friends withHim who has been their portion. " The righteousshall be in everlasting remembrance." Theseare the immortelles which God bas provided forHis people.If all Christians, instead of giving the dollarwhich would swell our _/ine millions odd, to n^varAsoteigldy-sevenmUlions, would give onetenthof their income, what a grand total itwill in the inatter of giving, just as He does withregard to accepting salvation by Christ. Nonewould make. I suspect that this rule is oftener the less will we be free from guUfr if we neglectfollowed by men in moderate circumstances than to do His wUl. " Thy wiU be done," we prayby men of large wealth. Certainly if all these daily. Who is to do it ? " Even so it is not thelatter gave every year a tenth of their income, will of your Father in heaven ihat one of thesethere would be a much larger sum in the Lord's little ones should perish." Ahl I'm afraid thentreasury. Trig the tenth system—not that I tbat we are not doing His wUl, for the means towould restrict any man to that—the Gospel rule prevent theiv perishing is not forthcoming.is " as the Lord hath prospered him ; " bnt I Shall we not begin from this time, arid takeknow, if you try the tenth system faithfully, you God at his word ? Shall we not prove Him herewithif He will not open the windows of heaven,win enjoy it so much that you wiU want to givemore. But brother,, that tenth. It isn't yours. and pour us out a blessing that ihere shall not beIf you withhold ii, you ave a vobbev just as veally room to receive it ?as the bm-glar who abstracts the contents of yourItems of Missionary Intelligence.175safe—nay, more, for has not God more right to Uall than you have—and if you enter his kingdom,it is only through His mercy pardoning a sineven so great as withholding His own from Him,All the sUver and gold are His. He can take itall should He see flt, but He allows us the privilegeof using it, and leaves ns to our own free—In Special Numbers of the Ghristian World a great influence upon the conversion of Asia.there are full reports of the work done by the IjOudonIt had been said that China did not need theSocieties. WhUe some lament a falling off in gospel, but he knew that neither Confucianismcontributions, all declare that there were never nor Buddhism—greatly as he might admire muchgreater opportunities for doing missionary work. in both those systems—was sufficient for the saltionThe resolutions and addresses at their anniversariesof the people. There were difficulties in thereveal unshaken confidence in tbe ultimate way of that empire receiving the gospel, and yetsuccess of ihe missionary cause, and a determiuationany ovdinary common sense man might be sureto labor with unabated zeal for the King­of an attentive audience in that country. As andom of Christ.The gross income of the London MissionaryiUustration of this wUlingness of the people tolearn the way to life, ihe speaker related the followingSociety for the past year was a trifle over £105,-touching incident: It is now more than382, yet this was not sufiicient io meet the expensestwenty years since I traveled into the interior, aof carrying on the work. The Chairman, distance of over a thousand mUes, visiting a mul­after giving a resume of the annual report, remarkedtitude of places where no foreigners had been before,thai, as be read ihe letters and statetitudements which reached him irom missionaries in the and preached in the city, markets, town,and village, not only without serious hindrance,field, he saw his Master moving round the world, but often with the marked intelligent interest ofas the conqueror of all human hearts. A missionarythe people. Such journeys have become frequentclaimingfromthatTientsinit had nowpleadedcomethetocausebe lookedof China,uponsince,experience.yet it isSomerarelypresenttbat onemayhearshaveof ahearddifferentmeas one of the world powers, and urged that ihe relate a touching incident I met with on a shorterevangehzation of that land would not fail to haye tour a few years ago. It was near the close of a