Mr Morgan from the Southern mission

“ One day was held the anniversary of our auxiliary Bible Society, when Sir Henry Bulwer, British ambassador, presided, and Dr. Schaufller made one of his best speeches. Mr. Morgan, from the Southern mission, gave us many interesting particulars of the work in that field. There are sixteen hundred pupils in the Sabbath school at Aintab, the blessed Bible the only text-book. The Christian song-book we have prepared for them they sing with mighty voice, and this not only in the church, but at home, where many of their ungodly neighbors, even the Turks, can hear and learn.

All the filth and offal of the city are carried out of the city into the fields by poor Turkish boys, in bags on miserable donkeys. In returning for fresh loads they jump on and ride without saddle or bridle, and sometimes a dozen of them may be seen riding as fast as they can make the poor creatures go, their faces and hands for days unwashed, their hair streaming in the wind, their clothes all tattered and torn, and they all singing at the top of their voices through the streets of Ain tab, ‘ I want to be an angel,’ &c., in the hearing of the Cadi, the Mufti, the Governor, and all others, great and small. These poor boys are never troubled with the bronchitis, and their clear voices are heard at a great distance. And who can tell how many, by hearing those wonderful words, may wake up to a new life, and enter upon new trains of thought and feeling and action.”

On reaching the age of seventy he wrote to one of his sisters: —

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 14, 18G2.

Worldly consideration

MY DEAR SISTER MARY, — I am this day threescore and ten years old, — a long time to live in this world, and to find every day food to eat, raiment to put on, and air to breathe. I seem now to be standing on the banks of the Jordan, where I see others passing over, and where I can see the shining throng beyond; and for no worldly consideration would I retrace my steps and turn back into the wilderness. To turn back for any thing earthly is like “ taking a leap into the dark,” to press forward is like coming to “ the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.” Blessed be God, sin dies and grace reigns. I feel more and more that I have made a most blessed exchange with Christ, giving Ilim all my nothingness and sinfulness, and taking all 11 is fulness and goodness; and thus, though 1 find nothing in myself worthy of divine acceptance, I find every thing worthy on me, viz., 11 is righteousness, “ which is to all and upon all them that believe.” And thus,