with the other dollar; held a little prayer-meeting on the spot, and left with the benedictions of the distressed ones filling his ears.  The recital of his adventure obliterated for the time all sense of their own desires, and they thanked God together that their loss had been the widow’s gain.  The next morning, while taking their frugal meal, a tea dealer, for whom this man had frequently put up shelves, came to say he was short-handed, and if the Scotchman was not very busy, he would give him a regular position in his establishment, at a better salary than he could hope to earn.  Meanwhile, hearing his wife was sick, he had brought her a couple pounds prime tea, and it occurred to him that venison steaks were a little out of the ordinary run of meat, and, as he had a quantity at home, he brought a couple.  Thus the Lord answered the prayer of the poor, and repaid the generous giver who sacrificed his money for the Lord.

A PERSECUTOR PUNISHED BY THE LORD.

A most devout, hard-working and poorly paid man, was the object of constant persecution by a cross-grained, ugly, infidel neighbor.  For three years the thing went on, till the Christian thought he must remove from the place.  He could not do it without breaking up his humble home, for which he had worked night and day.  He and his wife were in deep distress; told their plans to the Lord; asked Him to direct them to another home, and then went to a newspaper office to advertise their little place for sale.  The editor was out, and they preferred to see him—­would return home and call again to-morrow.  The next morning the infidel was found dead in his bed, from a stroke of apoplexy.

HOW GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYER FOR $90.

“Suffice it, then, I was in debt.  I was owing the large sum (large for a poor home missionary) of $90.00.  Expecting soon to be called upon for the payment of it, and not seeing any way to meet it, I went to the Lord with it.  Early in life I had made this resolution:  that no man whom I was owing should ever ask me for money, and I not pay him; but now, I could see no way out; and if, as I expected, it should be demanded, I was not in a condition to meet it.  Such was my condition when, on a certain day, the demand came.  I took the letter from the office at noon.  What now was to be done?  Again I took the case to the Lord, and asked Him to help me pay it, so that my word need not fail, or his cause suffer reproach. I first determined to pay a part; but, as no letter could be sent out that day, I awaited the results of the day following.  From the northern mail, which first arrived, I took a letter containing an unexpected draft of $50 to my wife, from parties whom we did not know, and had never seen, nor they us.  Within twenty minutes more I was presented with a surprise of $40, from a people where I had preached for the six months past.  Here was my $90, and, before the mail went out, I had my letter written and in the mail.  Both were as unexpected as if they had come from heaven direct.”