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182 Mission Monographs.the fighting—must have the principal place in taste, culture and refinement. " Does she deemhis thoughts. So must it be with all who would that stern duty calls her to resign the home andserve Christ. They must beware oi softness friends of her heart, the fame wbich she has sospoiling their characters as Christians. They gloriously won, nay more, perhaps even life itself,must endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus for the sake of the far off heathen ?" But in ve-Christ.—%Ze's Expository Ihoughts.pndiation of the charge of " madness," throwingAN APPROVED LIFE ^^^ ^^^ splendid gifts, she pointed out the follyof tbose who are spending their lives in the pur-When it pleased God, who separated rae from g^jt of earthly pleasure, and exulted to laymy mother's womb, and called me by His grace, «i^urels and life " at the Redeemer's feet. Costto reveal His Son in me, that I might preach ^^^g counted. Her father would never waitHim among the heathen; immediately I con- ag^in for his daughter's coming tread. She wasferred not with flesh aad blood.—PawL to be regarded as with the dead. But there wasWhen will people learn to stop pitying those the hope of reunion in a land of life and love.whom God honors and blesses by sending to Notsorrowing tnen asnow,foreigu and difacult fields 1 We at home in our ^^"'^ ''"^e^'' ^^'^- '^'^^ "o^^ percbanoe° , ^ ,. , Witi jewels on ter brow.selfish abundance, who never know what self-de-j'Ae Macedonian Crynial for Christ is—we are the ones to be pitied.When we come before the throne to receive our PRAYER FOR MISSIONS.crowns, then we shall know what class oi Chris- The greatest, the most responsible, the busiesttians need pity, and what class God honors. I and the most successful servants that Christ everstill see many an hour when I wish I were in had divided their functions into two departments.China, or beyond the sea, in obedience to that We wUl give ourselves continually to prayer,highest command, " Go, and preach the Word" 'and to the ministry of the word." What would—Constans L. Goodell's Letters. be thought of dividing the twelve hours of ourIn the earher days of missions, a young girl of day by giving six hours to prayer for the gos -the Hnited States read of a remarkable work of pel and six to the ministry of the word ? HadGodinBurmah, and was fired with the thought of aU Christ's servants acted thus, could any oneservice for Christ. "And I too," was the re- estimate how miglity the re>ults would be to-day ?solve, " yes, I too will be a missionary to the What should be the tenor of our prayers ? Ifheathen." But for a time life took another di- the promises of God may be regarded as moulds,rection. " Fanny Forester''became a star of the our prayers should belike liquid metal pouredliterary firmament and won both fame and for- into them, in dimensions corresponding with thetune. Then came a genuine surprise. A whig- capacity of the mould, and taking on all the lines,per went out, indistinctly at first,afterwards grooves and figuringof the interior.confirmed, that this favorite of society was to be- If then we find sucb promises as this, " Thecome the wife of a distinguished missionary. Tbe earth shall be filledwith the knowledge of theproposal was met by an indignant protest. Had glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," athe fuU chalice of popular applause been offered promise twice given in Scripture, and which hasin vain ? That one who shone with such distinc- many c irresponding with it, our prayer sbould betion in circles of wealth and fashion should be commensurate with the promise. We are not tosacrificed to the cause of missions, and be borne pass by moulds, even of extremely limited capacity,off to grim Burmah, was deemed au outrage upon but by all means let us match the great promises