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Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad. 33But in the paling archIn its silent marchUprose like a deathless thing ;And it seemed to climb the stairwayOf the Heaven's ethereal blue.Twice severed—yet still its outlineIn faintest but perfect hue.As it rose uprightLike a vision bright,My spirit caught the gleam of a lesson true.For the bow of hope thus severed—T-wice severed yet gleaming stillThrongh the storm-clouds of the sunset—Was a message, at God's will,To the weary heart,In its silent smart,'When the blasts of life blew chill.And it told of a glad uprisingFrom the ashes and dust ot life,From the mists of earth's sarroundings,From the battle and din of strife ;And in my spirit freed,In its hour of need,Drank anew of the " water of life.''-Selected,A private letter from Rev H. Easson, datedNov. 30, 1887, furnishes the lollowing item :Owing to an insurrection in one oi the mountainvillages, where one of our best teachers wasat work, he had to leave the place, and, as theschool question is not settled yet, we could notsend him to another village withont attractingthe attention oi the Government; so we concludedto send him to Larnaca, Cyprus. Quite anumber of Arabic-speaking Jews are living there,and other Arabic-speaking people. The Jewishpriest thanked me very much, and indeed ah ofthe people are pleased. The connection withLarnaca is very easy. Leaving Latakia on Fridayevening, we land in Larnaca Saturday morning,and can return the next week, reaching homeThursday morniug. There might be schoolsopened in Nicosia and in Limassal, but funds willnot warrant our doings at present.This whi not increase onr current expensesmuch, and we are still within the limit of the£1,300 aUowance for the year. mMr. Easson also sends under date Dec. 5, thethe ending, saith the Lord wbich is and whichwas and which is to come, the Almighty." Isa.40:10. " Behold the Lord God will come withstrong hand, and his arm shall rule for him, &c."When I said to tbe sheikh, what do you sayto this testimony, all of it the testimony of pro­following extracts translated from a report ofHana Iskander:phets and apostles, and all of them testify thatI visited the village of Manjonwanie, and tookJesus the Christ is Lord and God ? '1 he sheikhfor my subject 1 Cor. 8:6. " One Lord Jesus answered, " I can not accept that Christ is God,Christ by whom are all things and we by Him."for that is contrary to my religion." A man ofA sheikh of the village, being present, when hethe village by the name of Abraham arose m theheard the words, " One Lord, Jesus the Christ," midst of all present and cried with a loud voice,said, " I do not accept those words, that Jesus saying, " ihe Christ, He is God." The sheikhis Lord."for trial; if we can bring witnesses to prove it,1 we gain the case or not 1The sheikh answered, " You will gain the case.if the witnesses are God fearing men and loversof truth, and hence give true testimony." I thensaid, I intend to bring testimony concerningChrist, tbat He is God, and my witnesses shallbe prophets and apostles ; will you accept them,Oh 1 sheikh or will you not ? He answered, Iwill accept them.[ then read the following passages: Acts2:36. " God hath made that same Jesus wbomye bave crucifled, both Lord and Christ." 2 Tim.4:22. "The Lord Jesus Christ be with thySoirit." Gal 6:18. "The grace of our LordJesus Christ be with your spirit." 1'iim. 1:1-"Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope " Jer. 23:6. " And this is His name whereby He shall becalled, the Lord our Righteousness." Rev. 1:8." I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning andI answered, the subject is before usarose^'and threatened to strike the man, but hestood boldly before the sheikh and repeated hiswords, " The Christ, He is God, and there is noreligion but the religion oi Christ."