He is infinite downwards too-downward to us, to death, to the grave for us; and so upward again, and for us, to all altitudes of Deity; and infinitely with us for ever.",

I read and prayed with the woman, and came away: it was little I could do. But I had received something which I have not forgotten to this hour, although I cannot communicate because I cannot comprehend it, since it is of the nature of the illimitable. We chafe and fret most of all at the scantiness of things. Why should we not have house, land, food, clothing, money, opportunity of travel, health, as freely, as inexhaustibly as we have light and atmosphere? Because we must have everything and unboundedly, we overwork and sometimes kill ourselves outright. "All things are yours." Created originally on that basis, we shall, with eternity of time, come into the unlimited supply of everything else, if we have Christ.

Some of us remember the sewing woman who, sick and starving, was taken from her close city attic to the sea-shore for the first time. As she gazed upon the ocean, she exclaimed, "I thank God, that, for once in my life, I see enough of something.' If we could but catch a glimpse of a present Christ, our feelings would be like hers. What a roll, as of the shoreless seas, in the words, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God!"-Rev. Wm. M. Baker, in Christian Monthly (abridged).

IN MY STUDY.

BY THE REV. ALEXANDER ANDREW, Glasgow. CHAPTER III.-ANSWERS TO PRAYER.

OES God hear prayer? He does. The Bible says He does. It abounds not only with exhortations to prayer, but with examples of prayer answered, as numerous and bright as the stars of Heaven. And in some places, they are as thick as grapes on a cluster. Nevertheless, there were doubters in the olden time as now, who said, "What profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?” To whom the answer was given, "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He shall hear thee."

Abraham prayed for the cities of the plain, and was heard, as long as he continued praying; Jacob wrestled by the brook till the break of day, and prevailed; Moses also, frequently received answers, which were as clear as noonday, like those obtained at the Red Sea, and in the conflict with Amalek; and Samuel too, at Mizpeh, when through his intercession for Israel, over the sacrifice of the Lamb, the Philistines were driven back and discomfited. And Elijah, what signal answers he obtained in the descending fire and rain! and David, how often he found the Lord, in answer to prayer, to be not only a help, but a very present help in trouble; and how because of this he felt impelled to sing

"I love the Lord, because my voice,

And prayers He did hear;

I while I live will call on Him,

Who bowed to me His ear."

And then, when you call to mind how Daniel was heard, "while he was yet speaking;" and Hezekiah, how when he turned his face to the wall, and asked that he might be spared, he had 15 years added to his life. And turning over to the New Testament, don't you find Peter, in answer to prayer, delivered from prison? and Paul, who though his prayer for the thorn to be taken from his flesh was not answered in the way that he expected, yet received it in the way that was found to be best. And these are only specimens of

Answers to Prayer,

of which the Bible is so full-full as a garden is of flowers.

But, does God hear prayer now, as in the "days of old ?" Is the same wonderful traffic still being maintained, that Jacob saw in his dream? Do prayers ascend and answers descend, through Jesus Christ, to refresh and gladden the hearts of the humble? Well, apart from all actual proof, reason would lead us to say, it must be so, because God is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever! He alters not— so that if He heard prayer in the past, He must hear prayer now. His ear can never be weary that it cannot hear, and His arm can never be shortened that it cannot save, while His mercy endureth for ever.

And then, look at the teaching of the Saviour, how He gave repeated exhortations and told parables to this end-that men ought always to pray and not to faint, enforcing the duty with this affecting argument, that if we being evil, know how to give good gifts unto our children, how much more will our Heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him? And did not the great apostle of the Gentiles declare that "in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, we should make our requests known unto God?” From all which it is clear, that prayer is not only a duty, but a privilege to which all are called, and to which we are encouraged by the oft-repeated assurance that "if we ask we shall receive."

Yet, while all that is true, there can be no doubt that our faith in prayer is greatly strengthened by fresh proofs coming within our knowledge, or facts to which we can point, and which we feel can't be well explained, except on the principle that

God hears Prayer.

Before me, lying on my desk, are two letters in which the writers give the following testimony, and which I have perfect liberty to use to 'the honour of God.

"Twenty years ago," says the first, "I was made anxious about my soul. It was through a few earnest words addressed to me by my Sabbath school teacher, at the close of one of our lessons. My life had never been openly wicked; but I came to see that I was without Christ, and that to live and die without Christ was to perish. For weeks the arrows of conviction pierced me, until one night, while in deep distress, it so happened that, as my brother was in earnest prayer at the family worship-light and peace flowed into my soul! It was the night of my new birth, and from then till now, I have been a happy pilgrim on the way to Heaven. Not that I have had nothing to mourn over during these years; but though faint, I am still pursuing."

The second bears very much the same testimony, with this difference, that prayer was offered not in the presence of the person on whose behalf it was presented, but in his absence, and repeated for months before the answer came. Then a change was wrought, for which it was asked that thanks to God should be given.

In many cases, answers to prayer are long delayed, and for wise and sufficient reasons-to test the reality and strength of our faith, and to make the blessing when it comes all the more sweet and precious.

A father had a wayward son. He left his home and went abroad; but the father's prayers followed him, across the seas, and round to the other side of the globe-like the prayers of Monica, the mother of the youthful Augustine. Day by day God was reminded of His promise; but for long no answer came. Years glided past; and at length a letter came, conveying the joyful news, that as one day this youth was watching his master's sheep, suddenly strange thoughts filled his mind. Looking back, he wondered at his folly, and with tears he cried, amid the lonely hills

"Why left I my hame, why did I cross the deep,

Why left I the land where my forefathers sleep?”— It was sin that led me here;" and feeling his burden of guilt, he began to seek forgiveness, and to yield up all to the Saviour. And what helped to lead him to this was the thought, that as the other members of the family were on the way to Heaven, he would join them, and, by God's grace, he was enabled to do so, and ever since he has been

"Travelling home to God, In the way his father trod."

And the belief is, that it was his father's prayers that brought the blessing to his soul, and produced his change in life.

Was it not remarkable? It was, that answers should be coming in after the petitioner was dead. But so it was in the case of a Sabbath school-teacher, who, for several years, laboured among a class of 30, with singular devotedness. Every morning, before going out to work, and every evening before retiring to rest, he prayed for his scholars, and often mentioned them by name; and nobody that ever heard his prayers could forget them, or fail to be impressed by them:they were so full of that mysterious something called unction. And before he died, he had the joy of seeing not a few of his class brought to the Saviour; while the remarkable thing was that on the night he expired, one of his scholars, not knowing that he had departed, went up to tell him that she had come to decision, and that she was now the Lord's. But it was too late for him to know, and only an hour too late. And since then, others have been brought in, as if showing that while the prayers of this servant of the Lord are ended,

the answers still continue to come.

No doubt, it is our duty and privilege to seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousnes; but that doesn't exclude the duty and privilege of acknowledging God in regard to earthly and material things. We are to ask God to give us our daily bread, and many a time most striking answers have come to prayer, in the case of persons sorely reduced.

"What is to be done," said an aged couple, one Saturday night. It was eleven o'clock, and there was nothing in the house, and no money with which to buy

any food. After committing the case to God, they retired to rest, feeling assured that as He had not forsaken them in the past, He would not then. Night passed, and early on the Sabbath morning they heard a knock at the door. "Who's there?" No reply; and on opening the door, they were surprised to find that there was no one there. Shutting the door, and again retiring to rest, they heard another knock, wherefore, opening this time, they saw lying on the ground a plate of broiled fish and bread! Who had done this they didn't know; but there was the provision they were in need of, which looked as if it had come down from Heaven. Afterwards, they discovered that it was a neighbour, who could not rest until she had done this thing, while the aged couple could not but believe that it was an answer to prayer.

"Our extremity is the Lord's opportunity." Very often it is at the last hour He sends relief, to show all the more the glory of His grace and power. "This is the rent-day, and we need 5 pounds." The husband was going away to his office with a heavy heart; but his wife with a stronger faith said, "It will come. I have prayed for it, and it will come." Shaking his head in doubt, the door was shut. Early in the day, the bell rang. "Ah, there is the landlord for his rent;" and agitated, she opened. Lo! it was a friend, who, on coming in and sitting down, said, "Now, I hope you will not be offended, for I have come to give you something: somehow I couldn't find any rest until I made up my mind to come. And slipping a 5 pound note into her hand, he said, "Now, be sure and tell no one who gave you this. It is from the Lord." Tears filled her eyes, and gratitude her soul; for she felt that if ever she got a gift from Heaven, it was that morning. And when her husband returned, she said, "See, didn't I say it would come? God hears prayer, and surely we ought never to distrust Him any more."

"Boiling the kettle, and nothing to make breakfast with?" "Yes; but something will come in before it is ready; for we have asked God to give us our daily bread; and

"He hath ne'er forsaken them

That truly seek His face." And sure enough the postman brought a letter, in which there were 30 stamps, from a friend who felt constrained to send them; they came before the water was ready. This greatly helped to strengthen their faith in God, and caused them to lift their hands at the wonders of God's providence.

For

Most assuredly God hears prayer; and as George Müller has suggested, it would be a good thing to keep a book, in which, on the one side, to put the prayers offered, and on the other, the prayers answered. when we direct our prayers to God, we should look up, expecting answers; and when they do come, they ought to be written down, at least on the tablets of a grateful heart. And did we try, we should become more alive to the loving kindness and faithfulness of God. O the power of prayer-heartfelt prayer-believing prayer, offered up in the name of Jesus, for things agreeable to His will! It moves the arm that moves the universe, and more is wrought by secret pleading with God than the world dreams of.

"It makes the darkened cloud withdraw,
It climbs the ladder Jacob saw;
Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings every blessing from above."

Children's Corner,

THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. T was past midnight. Tossing in the restlessness of pain and fever, a little girl lay on her wakeful couch, burning with thirst, yet unable to swallow a drop of water to assauge it without adding to her pain. "Call my father," she cried in her agony to her mother, who had sought in vain to afford any relief. Softly the mother went to an adjoining room where the father, exhausted by previous watching, lay in a deep sleep. Hesitating, she returned back without disturbing him, to hear again the beseeching request, "Call my father! I am so thirsty, and I cannot drink."

For twenty-four hours Florence had neither slept nor drunk. Once, when she had tried holding water in her mouth to assuage the thirst, she had swallowed a little; but this had caused intense distress, and she had turned from it as from an enemy. A second time the mother went to her husband's room, but again returned without disturbing him. Then she lay softly by the restless child, and silently prayed that God would relieve her. In a moment came the words

"Mother, I feel botter; I would like a drink." "A drink!" said the surprised mother; "you know how even a mouthful distresses you."

"Please give me a drink, mother," was the reply. The glass of cold water was held to Florence's lips, and eagerly drunk. The child then lay back on the pillow, with a look of perfect quiet in her face. Hardly daring to move, her mother repeated, in a low voice, two verses she had learned when she herself was a child younger than Florence, and which hundreds of times since she had repeated to herself when wakeful at night, to find in them rest if not sleep :—

"When courting slumber
The hours I number,
And sad cares cumber
My weary mind;

This thought shall cheer me,
That Thou art near me,
Whose ear to hear me

Is still inclined.

My soul Thou keepest
Who never sleepest;
'Mid gloom the deepest
There's light above.
Thine eyes behold me,
Thine arms enfold me,
Thy word has told me

That God is love."

She looked at Florence as she finished the lines. The restless eyes were closed. The child was asleep. Not daring to move, her mother lay perfectly quiet, with her eyes fixed on a clock which stood on a bracket near by. Twenty minutes of sweet sleep; and then Florence opened her eyes with a smile, and said, "I would like something to eat".

No one but a mother who has watched with intense solicitude over a sick child, can tell the music in those words. Quickly she prepared a delicate morsel, and was surprised to find it could be eaten with no more pain following than had been caused by the draught of water. The crisis was passed; her child was out of danger.

"I was at my wit's end," said the mother to her the next morning, "while watching with you last night. And if ever I prayed in my life, I did when I came in the second time and lay down beside you."

"I was praying, too, mamma," was the unexpected and most welcome reply. "And, mother, why did you never say those sweet verses to me before?"

"I do not know," was all the reply her mother could give. "But you may take them now; and if they prove of as much comfort to you as they have long been to me, I shall be very glad. And neither you nor I," she added, "must ever forget the night when we both prayed."

First

Watchwords for April.

Week.-"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and cat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."—ISA. lv. I.

Second Week.-"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."-2 COR. ix. 15.

Third Week.-"They gave their own selves to the Lord.”— 2 COR. viii. 5.

Fourth Week.-"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."-ISA. xli. 10.

From our Watch Tower.

The Demolisher and the Builder. Two men have died lately, one in France, the other in Spain; whose lives presented a great contrast, and whose sudden deaths awaken very different emotions.

BLANQUI was known as a persevering conspirator against all authority, human and divine. What strikes one in his life is the contrast between the greatness of his mental powers, and the nothingness of their results. With a lofty intellect and an indomitable will, he exercised an irresistible authority over a small circle of chosen men who, as he planned the matter, were to change the face of society. His efforts were unceasing and vigorous; he never stopped, whether in prison (for thirty-eight years, off and on) or out. He aimed at being a great demolisher: his very last act was the publication of a newspaper, entitled by him, "Neither God nor Master!" But he seems to have not had one single pregnant thought as to any organisation wherewith to build upon the ruins he attempted to make. Thus his life was one of labour in vain. We cannot (says a French writer) repress a feeling of the deepest compassion for this man; yet at the same time we cannot but feel the deepest humiliation as Christians, in that we fail by our lives and by our spirit to convince such men both that God is and that His service is true liberty. We need downright, out-and-out Christians. Splendid religious machineries are often weak and inefficient; the Christians whom God blesses are those who, as empty vessels ready for the Master's use, obtain from God the heavenly fire, the power for good, which He has ready to bestow on such for the asking.

BERNARDO JAENZ was a mason, by trade a builder, and a builder too in a far higher sense. He was the most active member of the Protestant Church of Zaragoza, in Spain. Called by the falling of a wall-he was found ready, his "loins girt from this world without a moment's warning-for he was killed about with truth." When his body was dug from the ruins, his New Testament was found in its customary place in his girdle, and tracts in his cap. That very day he had been talking to his had taken potatoes from his own scanty store to give to a poor fellow-workmen about the great salvation. The night before, he family near him. He never let his left hand know what his right hand did, and only after his death did we find out how constantly he had been in the habit of giving. His own wife did not know of half that he gave, but would frequently find out delight to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. If by missing food which she thought was in the house. It was his you met him near meeting-time hurrying in another direction,

you might be sure he was going to get some hesitant friend to come to the house of prayer. When there, he would pray with simple, earnest faith, in particular for the conversion of one and another of those for whom he was daily labouring. Though he never thought of exhorting in the meetings, he was always ready and glad to pray. Whatever subject of conversation was up, in whatever company, he would, if circumstances permitted, bring it round to Christ and His Gospel. No other subject seemed to interest him much. He was universally loved and respected. He has been known more than once to go into a drinking tavern, full of rough fellows, and, after introducing the subject of religion, and perhaps reading a few words from his Testament, take off his cap and propose that they should pray; and all would remove their caps, hats, or handkerchiefs, and listen in respectful silence. The wife of one who frequented the taverns is now a member of the Protestant church, through his faithful, unostentatious labour. When she was very sick and very poor, he went to their house every week, and frequently every day, for a long time. The day before his death he was talking to the abbess of a Zaragoza convent about the Gospel. The very night

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R. R. Vickers, Esq., 50
Win. Dodgshun, Esq., 5 o
W. D. Johnstone, Esq., 5 o
Ed. Birchall, Esq., 5 0
George Tatham, Esq., 5 o
R. D. Gardner, Esq.,
H. H. Pollard, Esq.,
E. Byrd, Esq...

C. Stewart, Esq.,

A. Aird, Esq.,

Alex. Dewar, Esq.,

2 6

- 2 6

B. C. Munro, Esq.,

26

Wm. Sineaton, Esq...

2 6 2 6 2 6 Henry Wolff, Esq., . 2 6 Samuel Nussey, Esq., 2 6 G. Bingley, •Esq. 2 6

2 6

2 6

2 6

John Duncan, Esq.,

26

26

STANNINGLEY,

26

Jos. Lambert, Esq.,

5 o

Rev. J. S. Miller,

FULNECK.

Mrs. Craig,

W. Sutherland, Esq., 2 6

Misses Brodie,.

T. Murray, Esq.,

D. Hamilton, Esq., George Durran, Esq.,

J. W. Galloway, Esq., 2 6

Alex. Ogilvie, Esq., INVERNESS. Mrs. Forbes, of Culloden,

Mrs. Macgilvray, Rev. Dr. Black, C. Keith, Esq., •

Messrs. J. Haley & Co., 5 o 2 6

. 2 0

· 3 0

· 2 о

Wooler,

A Friend, Llangollen, 26 Mrs. Clifford, Staines, 2 o Mrs. J. Backhouse, Darlington,

R. K. Waller, Esq..

Withington,

- 10 0

Mrs. Miller, Brecon,. 2 O
Mr. J. Robertson,
Dalmally,

Mr. R. A. Mackintosh,
Conon,

£128 10 7

Amount reported

Last month,

THE GRATUITOUS

31,825 6 8

£31.953 17 3

CIRCULA.

TION of the British Messenger, Gospel

Tracts of the

Trumpet, Good News, and Stirling Tract Enterprise, since its commencement, amounts to more than FortyTwo and a Half Millions. The number in 1880 was nearly Three and a Half Millions. The Trustees are anxious to continue and greatly extend this gratuitous circulation, and they invite and would gladly welcome the contributions of Christian friends to enable them to do so. Many applications could be more adequately responded to did funds allow,

The following quantities were given gratuitously during February, 1881 :10,419 British Messenger,.... £31 17 11 7,774 Gospel Trumpet,...... 12 5 11 8,774 Good News, and 581,544 Tracts,

Amount of previous Grants

as reported in March Messenger,...

146 12 9

£190 16 7

33,022 16 5

£33,213 13 0

All applications for Grants, and remittances of money for this object, to be made to JOHN MACFARLANE, Manager, Drummond's Tract Depot, Stirling, N.B.

Published and sold by the Trustees acting under a Trust Disposition and Codicis relating to the STIRLING TRACT ENTERPRISE, granted by the now deceased PETER DRUMMOND founder thereof, proprietors in Trust, at Drummond's Tract Depot, Stirling, ND.