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The Christian \/orlcer's Motive. 243" Now I know you are crazy. Who ever so large a return ih solid pleasure, and—whoheard ofsuch a thing?"could tell what per cent, was laid up for him" Crazy ? Not a bit ot it," said Mr. Brown; in tbe Lard's treasury 1—L. J. Kirkwood, inand he added, wheeling round and laying his British Messenger.hand unon a paper on his desk, " This is acheck whioh I have jast signed, and intend for T CHRISTIAN WORKER'S MOTIVE.a poor western missionary whom I know, and A Christian laborer for the Lord sends uswho, I have just heard, is sick and in much the following extract from a letter receivedneed. The Scriptures say that ' He that giv- from a friend, just before commencing specialeth to the poor lendeth to the Lord ,' but I was work for the Lord. Having found through itnever awakened to the fact ot what interest the a rich blessing, our friend sends it in the hopeLord pays, until yesterday, when our minister that it may be blessed to others. We Uke itstarUed me by saying He had promised ten so much that we gladly afford space, believthousandpercent. I pricked up my ears at ing that the practical words may be of realthe statement, and waited curiously to hear service to many :the proof; and there it was sure enough in " I was greatly interested by your letter,Mat. 19: 29.and will at onoe answer your question about" ' And every one tbat hath left horses, or work in ; bui I oan only do that bybrethren or sisters, or father or mother, or asking you a c[uestion first..Is it work for thechildren or lands for ray name's sake, shall re- Lord, or is it work to gratify and interest'yourceivea hundred fold and inherit eternal life.' self, that you are looking forward to "I Ifit, be" I was struoK at the sound ot ten thousand work for the Lord, have you thought oi whatper cent,, but I figured it out and found it a crucifixion of self that involves ?'There mustcorrect. The preacher was very much in ear- be no thought as to what /like, what I wishnest, as he declared the Lord's diviclend. He to do. This thing must not wound my pride,was as enthusiastic as a stock broker, only in that thing must not cross my S6//(0J/Z. If 1 aman infinitely more noble oause. I was very doing the Lord's work, I must be ready andmueh impressed at the t'lme with the thought, willing to tate the lowest place, to do whatand,i'ufact, have been ever since. It was in ever I am desired, to go wherever I am sent,my mind" when you came in. Not that I can to fill up a gap whenever necessary, to balay claim for a moment to the spirit of self- overlooked, not considered, apparently evensacrifice whioh the text quoted indicates ; but slighted, to see my work upset and undone,my gift to ihe poor is a lone tothe Lord, and and be quite cheerful and good-humouredI am not afraid but that I shall reap a good about it, to yield my way to others, though Idividend."am quite convinced I am io the right, to have"You take a worldly-wise view of the "no feelings," no sensitiveness, but to bematter, don't you ?" inquired Mr. Johnson. always good-humoured and amiable in little" Perhaps I do ; but it will bear it, although things, when no one seems to know or careitis only one view of " Here the ofBce about it,door opened, and the conversation was at an "Thisis the very-least that is - needed inend ; but Mr. Johnson went on his way com- oue who desires to be a fellow worker—withparing his own unlucky investment with the Whom ? With (7/im< Himself. As He is, sosmall one of Mr. Brown's, which had yielded should His followers be. I do not say all this