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Incidents in Mission Life. 229he was not Ukely to be daunted by a man of tbat io work ; and it wrouglii, tiS it often doesstamp. He looked at him and said, " And I too, flrst instance, anger, astonishment, awe, affright,sir, have a spell; and, if I work that spell npon amazement; then, uuable to endure it, the manyou, it wiU subdue you utterly ; and if you resist rushed out of the place in despair. But the spellthat spell, it avUI grind you to powder." was over him. He could not go far. He cameWell,.the man did not understand anything of back again by-and-by. " TeU me about that spellthis particular fashion, and thought that he had again."unwittingly come into the presence of a greater So then the missionary took him to the greatmagician than himseli It was the slave of the place—the place of divinest sorcery ; the placering, in the " Arabian Nights,'' who had just hap- where, by that exquisite magnetism of the Gospel,pened unwittingly to trench upon the province of if He Avere lifted up. He would draw all men untothe slave of the lamp ; and he was quite ready Him ; and he showed him the sacrifice of the life,to apologize for his intrusion. " Oh ! " said he, crowned by the deeper and costlier sacrifice of"tell me about that spell." the blood. And while he was speaking, the spellThere was nothing in tbe world the missionary wrought again. It was working all the while,wanted more than that; so he began and took and it Avrought, wrought, wrought, until it wroughthim to the shores of ihe lake where the Gadarene all the devil out. Tbe man became a witness formaniac was dispossessed, and he showed him how, the truth that be had formerly despised, and isunder the influence of this wonderful speU, ihe man now himself an energetic, earnesl pleader for thewas clothed, and in his right mind at the feet of dominion of ihe Crucified.—Dr. Punshon.Jesus, Andthen he took him off again to the IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.gates ofthe city of Nain, where there was a young. , , ,, , f-,- +1 „, „ J „K„ The story which I have to tell this monthman carried ont, the only son of his mother, and she ^^ '-> ja widow, and showed him liow there came a sUence may startle our readers east of the Rockies,stiddenlyoverthesoundsof woe, because the Son of though ihe hard tact underlying it has longGod was passing by. The poor woman wept not ago been known to us on this Pacific slope,noisily, bnt aU that looked upon her saw that her and especially in San Francisco.heart was crashed ; and the Lord pitied her, and On Sabbath June 5th among seven Ohi-TT i 1 -J i'X- T ,„,+„+1,,,^ nese who were baptised and received into Beth-He went and said, '-lonng man, I say unto tbee. '"^'^i^ " f , ^ --. . -.,.,, -, -,J. 1 T 1 anv churoh, was one young woman about fifai'ise,"and he that was dead stood np and began ''"J' ^"'^'^"'''' fi ^ .' 1 1 . . .i 11 X J I TJ .^„ teen vears of age. She was the second temaleto speak, and oh, inimitable tenderness ! He de- leeuycai^u g,.,,.,.,. ,, A J j-i 1 „ M ,-. „ri Chinese received to our fellowship, for out ofhvered him to his mother. And then he showed '-^"'""^""^ „,.,,, ,. /,. , . 1 ,.. -1 .1 1 T, il .A more than 120 of that nation whom I havehim that vine-latiiced cottage by Bethany, and ^"^" „,\, , , ,, , . il 1 i f *i bairtised all bui two have been males.the agony that was m the hearts of those weep- oaptiseu an u ^ , i, , ^-, ,ing sistei;, as they mourned theh beloved-brother. This young woman is remarkably beautifula four da;s' dweller in the tomb. And then he i^ person, pleasing in her ways, and interest-, ., JV. 1 inff in character. Her father is in China. Herpainted a grave-side scene, pathos and power '"B '"