in a short time those amusements will be given up altogether. There are now prayer-meetings at all the three stations in Glasgow.

“To-night, as I sat amongst the people before the service began, I heard a woman tell the story of her conversion to one beside her; and she wound up the whole matter by saying, 'O woman! religion puts a' things in their richt places.'

"Another said, 'It's an awfu' thing to see one's sel'!' "O woman!' replied her friend, 'it would be ill, ill for us if we didn't see oursel's; for oh, it's when we see oursel's we flee till Him, and He can tak' a' away! When I found Him I was a' alone, and I prayed, and He came and filled my soul. My daughter was out; and when she cam' in, I cried, "O Maggie ! your mother's new-born again; your mother's found Christ; and you've an immortal soul to be saved too." And she cried sore. O woman! He is the Pearl of great price.'

"This evening, prayer was asked for the soldiers and sailors on board one of her Majesty's ships in the Pacific. Also for a little girl, awakened last night by hearing her companions singing a hymn.

"At ten o'clock, Mr asked if any one would like to say a few words. A butcher stood up, and spoke solemnly. Then Mr brought forward a boy about fourteen, who said simply and earnestly that he had heard about these meetings, so, one Sabbathday about three weeks ago, he walked seven miles to be present at one. The church was full, but he got a

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seat. The text was given out; and as Mr them to ask themselves whether they were believers or unbelievers, 'an arrow,' he said, 'entered my heart. I prayed to know whether I was a believer or not. That night I knelt down by my bed, and prayed the same. Then that week I found out I was not saved; and oh, what an agony I was in! I saw I had just been making a mock at God, when I went to church and seemed to pray. On Sunday I went to the house of God, and as the minister spoke, I thought of that verse, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ;" and I put that other verse with it, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." And I did confess my sin; and oh, then and there I found Jesus, and such joy filled my soul, that, had it not been for decency, I tell you I could have shouted out in church, "I have found Jesus!" When the sermon was over, I seized hold of my bosom friend and told him, and I found he, too, was seeking Jesus. So I took him to a solitary place, and prayed for him, and he prayed for himself; and now he has found Jesus. Oh, I wish I had words to express the joy of finding Jesus, but I cannot!' "The effect of this short and beautiful story was great."

In Aberdeen, Huntly, and other places in the North of Scotland, there has been a great reviving work for many months past; for which several servants of the

living God had been praying and waiting for years, and still wait and pray, believing they "shall see greater things than these.”

From the Rev. Dr Massie's correspondence with the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the following fragment is extracted :

"One feature of the social revival in the province of Ulster will peculiarly gratify your Lordship's mind, and deserves notice in a review of the general tendency of the movement-reconciliation among alienated kindred and neighbours has accompanied the excitement. The catholic unity which is hereby engendered and promoted is extraordinary. The united prayer-meetings are scenes of hallowed and extended fellowship. On the same platform, and in protracted and repeated exercises of devotion, I have seen the sects of almost every name blending their sympathy and rendering equal service. The Episcopalian has been surrounded by Presbyterians, endowed and unendowed, by the Independent, the Baptist, and Methodist of all designations; clergymen and ministers-all reading and praying, and singing praises, and striving to promote fraternal love and Christian union-have realised the prayer of Jesus Christ for His disciples. The Episcopal clergyman has preached at the Independent minister's house door; Presbyterians and Independent ministers have, in a cathedral city, joined in prayers, addresses, and other exercises in Methodist chapels and open fields; and

Methodists of adverse sections have united as brothers in promoting the one measure. I have heard the most appropriate fervent supplications offered, in such united. meetings, for the priesthood of the Church of Rome, that the richest blessings should rest on their souls, and that God's most abundant favours might come down on the people of that faith. When the heart of the nation is thus anointed with the unction which is typified by the oil that flowed down on Aaron's beard, what holy peace and brotherly love will not flow both in the Church and in the empire! It will be good for all nations if Britain shall be pervaded by such gracious and loving influences.

Another circumstance I must notice. I was in the town and vicinity of Belfast on the 12th of July. Never, since the distinction of political partisanship stigmatised different classes of the community, was so little personal rancour exhibited; never was the spirit of persecution so allayed. This has been repeatedly noticed to me. Roman Catholics have thankfully and significantly acknowledged to myself and others in private how acceptable a fruit this has been of the Revival, and how likely to win the hearts of all. It seems as if the law of love would bind men formerly arrayed in hostile factions. And if such a sentiment shall animate Protestant citizens, we may expect that a revival shall spread among Roman Catholics. Indeed, not a few of them have already been made willing in this day of the Redeemer's power, not as a fruit of controversy, but as a triumph of love."

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"The moral change in the Protestant population," writes the Rev. Maurice Day, Incumbent of St Mathias' Church, in the same city, "seems to keep pace with the religious movement. Drunkenness has almost entirely disappeared from among them. I understand that the collector of revenue in one district-not a very large one-has stated that the consumption of spirits within his boundary has fallen off at the rate of £600 per month. The testimony of all whom I met was to the same effect. Rioting and ill conduct in the same towns have also passed away. I myself visited, one evening after dark, the public-houses of a once very drunken town, and found them empty of customers. Quietness and peace have entered into neighbourhoods which before were torn by party strife. A gentleman who is in the habit of examining witnesses in the sessions' courts, told me of the great change which he observed in the manner of taking an oath, and the cautious way in which testimony is now given lest anything should be stated amiss. A friend observed to me that even petty thefts of fruit from orchards and gardens, which he used to be aware of, are now not known; and the churchwardens of a parish church have remarked poor people, whom they never knew to contribute before, now dropping their pence and halfpence into the alms-box."

A lady writing to me, on her return from Ireland, gives the following statement :

"The chief stipendiary magistrate of the county of