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78 Incidents in Mission Life.It is not past the memory of some of us that .But for his own life he disdained to sue ; he hadBrave Winyan. Your spirit is akin to that and four Egyptians do against tho.usands ofof the martyrs of old, to that of the Church bloodthirsty fanatics ? On the other hand, it waswhich for "Christ's orown and covenant" just possible that, if no resistance was offered, thepoured out her blood till every glen and enemy would spare the sergeants. It was onheather-clad hillside in Scotland was red witb their account that our hero refused to make usethe blood of the saints. Will ihe United States of the weapons with which he and they weregovernment dare imprison for teaching to read armed ; that amount of submissiou was the pricethe Bible ?he was willing to pay as a ransom for their lives.tbe noble State of Georgia sent Worcester and defied the impostor of Kordofan all through tbeButler, and other ministers to the penitentiary long siege of Khartoum, and he would continueforthe sin of preaching the gospel to tbe Chero- to defy him to the very last So he sat therekees. I am not at all oertain that our law- with the four Egyptians at his back, and a sea ofmakers have in any wise " grown in grace" savagery raging all around—calm, undaunted,from that day io this. It may yet be given you preferring death to the dishonor of being Mahdi'sto " suffer also " for Hi? word's sake. We, a prisoner. And death came, bringing tbe crownChristian (?) nation, have shut fast "the door of martyrdom to as noble a Christian hero as everof utterance " io your people. Do any of us trod the earth. Smart Parisian -writers calledpray that it may be "opened " to you? Surely him " mad ;" prosaic critics dubbed him "unweought so to do.—The Presbyterian. practical," "a dreamer," "an enthusiast." Letthe babble pass ; it would be well for the worldH O W GENERAL GORDON DIED. ^id it contain a few more such " madmen." Gor-On January 26, 1885, Khartoum fell, and the don was a dreamer in this sense : he dreamed ofmost heroic personality ofthe century disappeared, a hfe devoted to the service of humility by cham-Althougb three years have elapsed since that pioning the oppressed against the oppressor.—tragedy, it is only now that we learn the truth London Globe.about the manner oi Gordon's death. Previousaccounts represented him as sallying forth into A CHEERFUL GIVER.the street on hearing the approach of the Mahdi's One of the young ladies just appointed totroops, and losing his life flghting. No one ac- the China Mission, while arranging her trunk,quainted with the record of his service iu China the other day, was asked by her lirtle brotherwould have said that this conduct was out of to take a ride with him. Upon her hesitatingharmony with his antecedents. When battling fir a moment, her father seconded tke request,against the Taepings, Gordon repeatedly con- urging that it might bea lasting benefit to theverted defeat into victory by his personal valor, little fellow,being associated with her departureBut it appears—if we may believe the tale of the from home. It flashed upon father and daughfourEgyptian sergeants who were with him— ter at once that this might be her last ridethat he gave up his life at Khartoum without a with her brother, and both burst into tears.single struggle. " Gordon will die to-day " was " This will never do," said the father, " wehis prophetic remark ou learning Fareg Pasha's shall both of us lose our faith and our peace,treachery, and he subsequently repeated the words, if we yield to our feelings." In a moment, theHe saw in an instant that the situation was such daughter brushed aside her tears, thraw herasto render resistance hopeless ; what could he self upon her father's neck and said, with the