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Mission Monographs.Tl^•'-i^^^' monument is?We have had a circular read from our pulpits, With this double object before the Church,which was also published in our periodicals, ask- viz., the memorial for the eminent servant ofiiig for the sum of not less than fifteen hundred Gl-od, and the salvation of lost sinners, might notdollars to erect a monument in honor of the late much more than flfteen hundred dollars be raislamentedDr. Sloane. Should not such a great ed ?* * • »and good man have a better memorial than canbe carved in marble ? There are schools and uni- APOSTLES AND PRIESTS.yersities in memory of great men, such as the When Jesus as our High Priest passed intoHoward and Lincoln Hniversities. And now the heavens. His personal ministry as onr apostlethat there are so many grand openings for benevo- ceased ; but He has not left Himself without alent enterprises, could we not have something witness. He has leit that work to His servants.like that, in memory of Dr. Sloane ? A church or He prescribed their task and promised them aid:school in his name ? Something that might be in- "Preach the gospel to every creature ; and, Lostrumental in bringing souls into the kingdom ; I am with you always, even unto the end of thecorresponding with our noontide prayer, " Tby worid." One sun shines in heaven ; the sea, inkingdom come." While the church is raising the all its length and breadth, lies spread beneath it.lifteen hundred dollars and planning the menu- How many ripples stand at one moment on ament, how many, many precious souls will have hemisphere of the ocean's surface ? No imaginapassedinto eternity, who have never heard of " the tion can conceive the number, and yet a suntrue God, and of Jesus Ohrist whom he hath glances on the edge of every wave. How manysent." Are there not abundant opportunities to leaves are trembling in the forest atter a summererect such a memorial in the foreign fleld,in the shower ? Yet that one celestial sun reduplicatesSouth or in our contemplated Indian mission ? itself in each ana all So, while Christ alone isConld our beloved friend speak back to us from the apostle who makes mercy known to men, athe realms of glory, which, think you, would be multitude whom no man can number, publish themost pleasing to him—fifteen hundred dollars in same salvation. Christ, tbe messenger of mercy,a monument on his grave, or such a memorial as shining on uplifted, receptive hearts, imprints Hismight be the means of " making known the way own likeness on His people, manifold as the wavesof salvation in the sight of the heathen?" and or leaves that glance in t^e sun of summer. Notwhich would be most pleasing in the sight of only every preacher, but every believer of theHim who is " not willing that any shonid perish? " Word is an apostle, charged and qualified toA period will come when marble will have per make it known. When He ascended He left onished, when " the heavens shall pass away with a earth a multitudinous ministry. Nor is a divinegreat noise and the elements shall melt with fer- commission wanting to the meanest: " Let himvent heat; " but souls brought from darkness to that heareth say come." Every face that islight, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, will " turned to the Lord " shines more or less brightlycontinue throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity; in His blessed light. Epistles of Jesus Christ areand in this way this righteous man's memorial the best apostles. The more legibly they areshaU everlasting prove.written, and the less they are blotted by confor-Mr. Sloane's grave should be marked ; but -x- gee an article from the pen of Mrs. Metheny oncould there not be an inexpensive monument on " Faithful Stewards" in Herald of Mission Newsthe grave, and on it inscribed where his real for Sertember, 1887.