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PUBLISHED WITB THE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CBURCB,U. S. A.mx Wxtw^ 0f §\mm mxk.THE MISSIONARY'S LIFE.Prof. W. P. Johiislon, Beaver FaUs, Pa.The Iffe of the Foreign Missionary is not supposedto be full of enjoyment Many thingsIt nearly broke his heart. He went away aloneto Africa. Whai about this life ? Let us see.He arrived at New York on Nov. 27, 1863.On the afternoon of that day he wrote to his parentsthat he had arrived in safety, that the ves­deemed enjoyable are not found in it. Whethersuch a life can be a happy life, will depend enthelyon the disposition of the man who lives itThe character of inner lives wUl decide the qnestionas to what outer ones will be—bappy or un­sel on which he goes to Liverpool will sail atnoon to-morrow, but says,—"I leave Americaperhaps for many a day, but there is no sadnessin it to me for I look beyond, I hope." On shipboardhe wrote, " The apples and cakes whichhappy—blessed or miserable. The bee and spiderfindJoy in different pursuits.Lizzie deposited in my trunk I fetched out a feivSince the meeting of Synod I have read the littlememoir of George PanU, missionary to West had the flavor of home. Everything that sug­nights since and found them all very nice. Theycoast of Afiica. The volume is made up largely gests home is pleasant to the taste or sight. Itof his letters, written to parents, to brothers and was a sore pang to part with all that I loved dearsisters; and so it is valuable, for wehave in it, not on earth, but my days now I think are as happywhat another says about him, but what he says as almost any that I have ever spent, in prospectabout himself We have the man's own thoughts, of the work that God has called me to do. Thereexpressed to friends in private, where no thought is a promise to those that forsake father andwas ever entertained of their publication. Mr. mother."Paull graduated in 1850 at Jefferson—was a On December 12th, at London he wrote, " Iclassmate of my own, as weU as of Revs. J. W. shall not get off for Africa before the 1st of Jan-Sproull and C. D. TrumbuU. He was brought nary. If I had known this I might have hadto Ohrist during a series of meetings, conducted the pleasure of staying longer at home. But Godby Dr. Plummer, in College chapel in the winter has ordered it as it is, and I am haj^py, as I amof 1851 and 58. At that time he had made np journeying slowly onward toward the heavenlyhis mind to serve Christ in the foreign field. His City." The voyage out waa a very long one, andcapacity was snch as to have fitted him for weU in a letter written on board and mailed immediatelyon landing occurs these words, " Mynigh any pulpit in his native land. There was, itwas understood at the time, a pecuUar sadness thoughts have been much disposed to center aboutin his case as to his departure, for ihe young home, but not with any feeling of melancholy."lady to whom he had become engaged in his The vessel on which he had sailed, had notseminary course, and who had thoroughly won his been used io religions services, but Mr. PanU byheart shrank from the life on which he had set his his gentlemanly and Christian bearing so wonheart. He must decide between two rival claims. the heart of the Captain, that grace was said at