At another place, he said, the people became very much stirred up concerning the temperance cause, so much so that many closed their bar-rooms and took their Jimmy Johns and poured the contents out on the ground.  Said he, “the liquor said good, good, good, as it ran out of the Jimmy Johns, and the people shouted for joy.”

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A DOCTRINAL SERMON.

By the kindness of a Baptist missionary, we are furnished with the following doctrinal sermon: 

     Text.—­“Ye are the salt of the earth.”

     Scene in a Baptist church.  Nineteen candidates awaiting immersion.

My text am, “Ye are de salt of de yarth.”

You all knows what salt am good for—­it is good to sweeten things—­good to season things—­good to keep things from spilin’.  We all likes salt in our victuals, some people likes lots of salt and dey has it too; some likes jes a little, and dey gets it too, but when you eats a whole lot of salt, you gits mighty thirsty, and you wants water, tea nor coffee won’t satisfy you neither.  You cries water, and you cries till you gits plenty of it.  Bredren—­de text says, “Ye am de salt of de yarth.”  What does it mean?  Christians am like salt—­we’se put here to keep this old yarth from spilin’—­to sweeten and to season it.  Some Christians have a heap more salt about ’em then others, and when dey is full of de salt of God’s grace, their soul cries—­water—­water—­and a few drops on der head won’t satisfy ’em neither.  You must take ’em down to de river and put ’em in.  And that’s what we’se goin’ to do—­come chillen.

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BOOK NOTICES.

Report of the Centenary Conference of Protestant Missions, London, 1888. By REV.  JAMES JOHNSTON, F.S.S., Revell, Bible House, New York.

These two neat and well-printed volumes give a full sketch of the proceedings of one of the most remarkable Missionary Conferences ever held in the world.  The addresses, papers and discussions emanated not from theorists, but from men actually engaged in the management of the great missionary organizations of Christendom, or who were actively employed as missionaries in foreign fields.  In addition to these, there are papers and addresses by honored pastors on both sides of the Atlantic, by travelers, and by students of the progress of the church in modern times.  The possessor of these volumes will have a treasury of missionary literature of inestimable value.

The Path to Wealth. By A BLACKSMITH, B.F.  Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.