Elizabeth Winyan taught Edwin, her son, to believe in God and in prayer.  She tells a story of how Edwin, as a child, wanted to wear “civilized clothes.”  She made him a shirt and trousers, and then he needed a hat and shoes.  She said, “I told him to pray for them; in the meantime I worked as well as prayed, and on Saturday, when my work was done, the missionary’s wife gave me a hat and a pair of shoes for Edwin.  He was delighted and so was I. Since that time he has never doubted that God would answer prayer.”  She said:  “I taught Edwin to give to the Lord from a baby.  When he was not old enough to know his duty, I put the penny in his hand and held his hand over the basket, and dropped in the penny.  Sometimes I would only be able to get one penny, and that I would give to Edwin to put in the collection, for I wanted him to form a habit of giving; I knew I ought to give, and God knows I would when I had a penny, but my son must be taught.”  This son has grown up a good Christian, speaks English, is a teacher, and is now a missionary at Standing Rock.  He owes much to his faithful Christian mother.

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THE CHINESE.

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TWO CHINESE ANNIVERSARIES.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E.  ROY, D.D.

One was that of the New Year, which is the first of February.  It was at Los Angeles.  The celebration lasts three or four days.  The Christian Chinese observe the festival with Christian ceremonies.  In the forenoon, I was with the Congregational brethren at their rooms in Chinatown.  Their schoolroom was decorated with all the colors and characters of the native land.  A table was spread with fruits and nuts and candies and cakes and flowers.  The Chinese lily was the appropriate New Year’s adornment.  The services were prayer, much singing of Moody and Sankey songs, recitations of Scripture and addresses by their own men and by visitors.  The room was filled with sympathetic touring friends.  After the public service, the goodies of the table were passed around.  In the afternoon, I went to the Presbyterian, and my wife to the United Presbyterian, service, which was much after the same sort.  In the former, the Rev. Mr. Condit and his wife, who had long ago returned from China to engage in this work, were the leaders.  After the Superintendent of the Methodist Chinese Sunday-school had spoken, a brother in the mission, following, called him a good Presbyterian.  Although these foreigners fall into the church order of the people who have led them into the Jesus way, they recognize these divisions as simply so many families akin, and so there is a constant visiting and affiliation among them as Christians.  The whole occasion was one to inspire faith in the Gospel as suited to the needs of our common humanity, and faith in the beneficent results upon those who have not known of the true God and Saviour.  On the afternoon of the following Sunday, in Dr. Hutchins’