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40 Notes and Reviews,lieved our report?'' and to ask "Is this the right could but dread some new device of ihe devilpath?" but there was one member ofthe mis- to obstruct their path; but it was not long besion,weak in body, bui strong in faith, who fore they were forced to admit that there wasnever faltered. She would but fall back on something that could not be gainsaid. In athe promises ofthe unchangeable God, and say, few months the whole aspect of ihe station"we may not live to see it, but ihe awakening had changed. The meeting house waswill come, as surely as the eun will rise to- crowded before the service had begun,morrow." On one occasion a letter was re- Heathen songs and dancing had ceased, andceived from her friend Mrs. Greaves of everywhere were to be heard instead the songsSheffield, asking, if there was anything of use of Zion and the outpouring of impassionedwhich could be sent. The answer of Mary prayers. The missionaries were beset evenMoffat was, " send us a Oommunion Service; in their own houses by those who were seekingwe shall want it some day." At that time fuller instruction in things which had becomethere was no glimmer of the dawn, and in tbe to them all at once of paramount importance.course of two or ihree years which it took The moral condition of the community rapwiththeir slow communications to get that re- idly improved, and the dirt and the indecencyquest ot faith fulfilled, there was time for an of heathen costume were exchanged for cleaneverthicker darkness to overspread the sky, liness and European habits of clothing, asand the sorest cross of all was a rumor whioh far as the supply could be met by the occacamethat doubts were beginning to be felt at sional traders.home about the use of going on with the Great as was the change, the missionariesBechwana Mission ; but they held on.did not dismiss their northern caution. It wasIn the year 1827 there began to be a sort of only after careful examination thai-from thechange, almost like that change in the sky ever many who pressed forward they selected somebefore the dawn which is famUiar io watchers six in the firstinstance to receive the rite ofin the night. baptism. Fe-v can enter into the feelingsAt length in 1829, a marvellous awakening whioh must have animated the hearts of ihebegan. It came, as suoh things do come, with- missionary band when tbey first sat downout any human or visible existing cause, with that little company at tbe table of theThere was a wave of tumultuous and simultan- Lord. On the day preceding this memorableeous enthusiasm. The two brethren who wit- occasion in the history of the Bechwana Misnessedit were soberminded and hardheaded sion a box arrived which had been long on theScotchmen, by disposition not willing to lend road from England. It contained the comihemselvesto any movement which might munion vessels for which Mary Moffat hadseem to have the taint of mere sensationalism, asked nealy three years before.—iii-es ofThey had been schooled io adversity, and they Bohert and Mary Moffat.-Miss Maggie B. Edgar arrived at Lata- New York, has given a fourth $1,000 io thekiyeh on Thursday, Nov. 4, 1886, in good Tarsus fleld.health, and met with a warm reception.—The students of our Theological Semin--Mr. Hugh O'Neill, ofthe Fourth Ohurch, ary will receive the Heeald for one year