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110 Mission Monographs.have been so long enchained and under the can do to train up these people here in onr ownbonds of Popery in Mexico, South America and land to carry this blessed Gospel to the landsCuba. Thank God and take courage that we which have been so long in darkness.have a free Gospel here, and in our gratitude to For the past year 1 have had great pleasure inGod let us go forth to this work of ministering visiting these foreign homes, but I often thinkto those who have beeu so long enthralled. The that, of very many, it can still be said, " I was achildren are doing, and will continue to do, good stranger, aud ye took me not in." Let us takework ; tbey wili, in the future become missionar them into our hearts in love and sympathy, andies to those lands which have been so long en- give thera tbat which makes • s so happy, so cornslaved,fortable and so peaceful in our lives.This is as grand foreign missionary work a,s we Miss C M. Strong.FILLED WITH THB HOLY GHOST. ^iU make the Chureh, both missionary and pliiiI wish I could depict its function and its value anthropic, with an enthusiastic zeal for ministry.in such glowing terms that every heart shonid " Filled with the Holy Ghost," tbe Church willburn with passionate desire for a fuller and not descend to carnal and unworthy methods torricher experience of the Spirit's power. Oh, that spreading the Kingdom of God. It is only whenGod would lead us up the shining mount of vision, the tide of the supernatural is sluggish that theaud reveal to us the completeness of the resources Church resorts to low and vulgar tricks and senwhichHe places at our disposal in the promised sational devices to ensure success, as Saul bereftfullness of the Sphit 1 It will do for the Church ot the Spirit of God invoked the aid of familiarwhat nothing else can possibly do. All the evils spirits The Church will cease to bow at thewe deplore, it will remove ; all the good we de- shrine of Mammon, will refuse an unholy alliancesire, it wiU bring. "FiUedwith the Holy Ghost," with Cffisar, wiU disdain the expedients ofthe Church wiU be guided into all truth ; for a woridly wisdom, and will not measure its successfuUer tide of the Spirit means finer spiritual dis- by statistical tables or woridly standards. Incernment and discrimination, a wider view of the quiet majesty of spiritual power she wih protruth,deeper insight into the great eternal verilies. secute her work, leaning upon no arm butthe"Filled with the Holy Ghost" the Church arm of her .Beloved, relying npon no force butwill be "glorious in hoUness ;" for wherever the His Spirit, and seeking no reward but His ap-Spirit of God dwells, He is as a fire which proval. "FiUed with the Holy Ghost," thepurges away the dross and refines the gold. Church wUl have an attractive power, and untoSanctities of character are the tokens ofHis pres- it " shall the gathering of the people be.'' Weence. " FUled with the Holy Ghost," the peace look too much to external things—to the mereand harmony ofthe Church will be insured, for accessories of religion and worship, to music andbrotherly love wUl reign supreme ; and even ritual, intellectual brilliance and sensational serwhenfidelityto truth requires that unpalatable vices—to make our churches attractive, forgetfulthings shall be said, there will not be a trace of of the fact that the magnetic spell of the Churchpersonal bitterness in the controversy. " FUled is in the intensity and beauty and fulness of itswith the Holy Ghost" the Church wiU be pre,- spiritual Ufe. Where the fruits of theSpiritserved fro-.a that subtle selfishness which is so abound, and manhood is made resplendent, fuUwell described by Lucretius in his discourse on of sweetness and generosity and love, men willNature, and which, alas 1 has been so sadly ex he drawn to that community as the bees areemplified in many a Christian community. It drawn to the apple-tree in blossom, or as the