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190 Notes and Reviews.DNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.ship in the churoh, while relating her experi"In Dean Stanley's Life ot Dr. Arnold, of euoe, described this very sermon aa being theRugby, it is related that "at Harrow, where parsuasive m^^asage which God had senttohe once spent a Sunday with Dr. Longley, l^e^ and whioh proved to be the turning pointtbere were found amongst the few pcpers of a '» ^^er life.—Dr. Edwtxrd Judson.poor servant maid, who died sometime after- ORIENTAL GEMS.ward, notes of a sermon which he prtaclied gaid oae wise man to aaothe!", " Brotner,tbere in tbe parish cburcb, and whioh she waa how are you this morning?" He answered,known to have recurred to fiequeatly after- "I awoke th's morniog experiencing the favorwards." Little did Dr. Arnold think, while of God io a very high degree, notwithatandlnghe was preaching, that the words spoken by all my unworthiness. Therefore I know nothim would be cherished by an obscure servant ijfheiher to be thankful for the goodness ofand would prepare her for heaven.Grod or for His torbearance."This is one of the most encouraging features Ariatotle says there are two kinds of envy,of Christian work. The word spoken is like blameworthy and praiseworthy. The praise-Longfellow's arrow whichhe lost, and tbe song worthy is to see a learned man and to wish towhioh he breathed into the thin air: be like him, or a humble man and to emulate•'Butlong,long afterward, in an oak, his actions; but the blameworthy is to see anI lonnd tlio arrow stm untooke; honorable 0" a learned man and to wish thatAnd tlie song, fromnegiamng to end,^^^^.^iI found again iu tne heart of a friend." be was dead.Mr. Samuel Colgate, at Orange, used fotell The truly great man is not uplifted by anya story of a minister that came there once to position to which he may attain even thoughpreach simply as a supply for a aingle Sunday it should elevate him aa high aa the mountainTbe sermon seemed to make rather an unfav- which the storm cannot move, but the meanorable impression, and Mr. Colgate himself man is puffed up by the slightest advancementspoke of it in arather deprecatory way. A just as the reed is shaken by the passingIlttle while afterward a candidate for member- zephyr.I^iste^ atti! ^§mum.Since our last issue we have received for the but the earnings of his own hands is an examplIndustrial School Building at Latakia:worthy of imitation, and should stimulate thoseCash $25.00 iu more independent circumstances, who have notThis is the offering of a young man who is in yet given anything to this scheme, to send forthefeUowship of the Second church, New York ^^ai-d their contributions at ouce It is very de-City. Ever since his confessiou of the Saviour gji-able that the whole amount needed for thishe has shown himself ready to devote time, per- parpose should be paid iuto the treasury withoutsonal effort and money for the furtherance of the unuecessarv delav.cause of Christ. Our brother is not willing to _Auother laborer is needed for Cilicia. Thehave his name given in connection with this dol- circumstance that renders this caU necessary isnation, and with some reluctance we have con- in many of its aspects discouraging when viewedsented to withhold it. Such liberality on the from a human standpoint. Three months agopart of one who has uo fund on wliii-h to draw one of our young ministers, a successful pastor