THE WANDERER FOUND.

A mother sent a request for prayer to the Fulton Street prayer-meeting, that she might hear from him who had long ago left home, and wandered far away.  She had been praying very earnestly for him, and soon she wrote that she had just heard from him, and heard too that he had become a Christian and learned to trust in Him.

ARE YOU THERE.

A mother, one morning, gave her two little ones books and toys to amuse them while she went up-stairs to attend to something.  A half hour passed quietly away, and then one of the little ones went to the foot of the stairs, and in a timid voice called out, “Mamma, are you there?”

“Yes, darling.”

“All right,” said the little one, and-went on with her play.  By-and-by the question was repeated, “Mamma, are you there?”

“Yes, darling.”

“All right,” said the child again, and once more went on with her play.  And this is just the way we should feel towards Jesus.  He has gone up-stairs, to the right hand of God, to attend to some things for us.  He has left us down in this lower room of this world to be occupied here for a while.  But to keep us from being worried by fear or care, He speaks to us from His word, as that mother spoke to her little ones.  He says to us, “Fear not; I am with thee.  I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”  “The Lord will provide.”

And so we see how certain it is that God does provide relief in trouble for those who love and serve Him.

GOD KNOWS THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL.

“Mother, I think God always hears when we scrape the bottom of the barrel,” said a little boy to his mother one day.  His mother was poor.  They often used up their last stick of wood and their last bit of bread before they could tell where the next supply was to come from.  But they had so often been provided for in unexpected ways, just when they were most in need, that the little boy thought God always heard when they scraped the bottom of the barrel.  This was only that little fellow’s way of saying what Abraham said when he called the name of the place where God had delivered him, “Jehovah-Jireh.”

GOD’S CARE FOR LITTLE CHILDREN IN LITTLE WANTS.

“I was early taught that God cares for His children, even to regard their little daily wants.  An illustration of my implicit confidence, which I do not remember ever to have been betrayed, occurred when I was about ten years of age.  I was accustomed to give five cents each Sabbath at the Sunday School collection for foreign missions.  This money was not given me directly by my parents; but I was allowed to go on an errand, or to do some little piece of work for a neighbor and thus earn it, outside of the performance of the duties that naturally fell to my