“I thought I was so bad He didn’t want anything to do with me.”  A long conversation, and others at intervals followed, and, before his death, which occurred several months after, his mother’s heart was gladdened by the account of his change, and the knowledge that, in farthest lands, his thoughts were back with her.  The deeper he went in sin, the more unsatisfactory and abhorrent it became, and he would have turned, long before, to the Lord, had he believed there was the least hope for him.  When he closed his eyes to earth, a few friends enabled his mother to give him respectable burial, in the same grave where, years before, his father was laid.

THE HEART OF STONE RELENTS.

Another consumptive in the neighborhood, was thoroughly an infidel.  Mr. A. visited the house three times a week, and, at last, succeeded in overcoming his objections to a weekly prayer-meeting in his house.  In his hearing, earnest supplication was always made for him, and, at the end of four months, the heart of stone relented.  He had not, at first, the courage to appropriate the promises to himself; but one morning very early he sent for the missionary to reveal the news that he felt all his sins forgiven, and had “Christ in him, the hope of glory.” four months more he lived to hear witness continually to God’s amazing mercy, and then joyfully expired, declaring himself saved by grace alone.

A DISCOURAGED ONE REVIVED.

Mr. C——­, walking home one Saturday afternoon, fell into a discouraged train of thought because he appeared to have done so little for the Master that whole week.  At that moment a young man took him by the hand saying—­“You do not know me, but I know you.  A few weeks ago I was on the high road to destruction, but now through your instrumentality I am in the narrow path which leads to everlasting life.  I attended your prayer-meeting one evening in company with a friend of mine.  You spoke with great earnestness, and after we sang the last hymn you remarked, ’How can I bless whom God has cursed?  For he declares, If any man love not the Lord, he shall be accursed.’  I cannot describe my sensations.  For several days I could find no peace, but when at last my faith rested on Jesus, I found that peace which flows like a river; and now, like Moses, I have chosen rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin, for I know if I have to face any trouble on account of my religion, I can look forward to a glorious reward.”

THE PRISONER LOOSED.