said to me when I took charge of this work: 'How can every member of every Baptist Church of the South be induced to give something regularly to the cause of Foreign Missions?' This I have kept constantly in mind.

The editing of the Journal saves expense and gives me a better opportunity of communicating directly with the churches. My sketches of missionaries and their work I hoped would quicken the interest of the churches, as they did, I believe. My tours among the churches are delightful in some respects but great crosses in others. The long absence from my family and the Mission Rooms is a serious trial.

I try to make the missionaries feel that I am one of them. They certainly seem like my family-my family in the Lord. Their sorrows are my sorrows. Their joys are my joys. When I retire from my desk I do not retire from my thoughts and longings in reference to this great enterprise.

"Last night two nights' sleep seem to have packed themselves into one-so sound and sweet it was. It was not dead sleep, but deep slumber full of pleasant visions. I told the girls that a complete drama passed through my mind during the night which was so vivid that I could repeat it. They said playfully: 'That was naughty, papa, for Sunday night.' I retorted: 'Perhaps the scene opened at five minutes after twelve.'

To amuse the children I have written out my dramatic dream in five scenes of some 650 lines. Several attacks of hay fever. Severer the fever, more active the brain. Ordinarily I could not have written the drama in one day. Laws of society: (1) Courtesy to men; (2) Chivalry to women; (3) Tenderness to children; (4) Truth to all. This afternoon and evening were seasons of rare enjoyment. About 3 o'clock we went on Cecilian Hill [near Mountain Lake], and

while we were enveloped in mist the valleys below were flooded with light. This view was soon changed into a landscape of most exquisite beauty, as mountains and valleys were painted with the most varied azure hues. Bowing the head to the ground the prospect was almost heavenly we were bound to it as if by enchantment, and wished the whole world could witness it. About sunset we ascended Bald Knob. On the west we had the rare view of the valley filled with sun-white mist, which seemed a picture of the Arctic regions, in the midst of which and far below us was a distinct and perfect rainbow. When we reached the Knob a dark cloud, fringed with gold, covered the sun. Gradually the splendid light poured through until suddenly the barrier gave way and the God of Day in superlative grandeur burst upon our vision and glorified all around with ineffable magnificence. There was dead silence. Tears flowed down our cheeks. Instinctively we knelt upon this sublime altar, and our overflowing hearts were poured out to the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Attended Sabbath school and spoke to the children. I tried to preach the sermon to the children to my own soul. It is impossible to record my experience of the last twenty-four hours-coldness in prayer, indifference in reading God's word, deceptions of the devil.. Yet I cling to Jesus. Away from Him, lost forever. My last play day at Mountain Lake.

I thank God for what Mountain Lake has done for

me.

"Resumed my study of Italian.

Resolved that by God's grace I shall pursue a more thorough and more systematic study of the Scriptures. ary 6.

Janu

Motto for the year: Looking Unto Jesus.' Left home on 4th of February and returned the 12th of April. I presume I traveled some 4,000 miles

and preached some 50 times.

Tuesday I go to

the S. B. C. I know not the future, which seems sometimes quite shadowy. I go 'looking unto Jesus.' Over $10,000 returned. April 30. Some $4,000 during my absence. The amount I labored and prayed for was $14,000. Bless God. I told Treasurer to tell Convention that I had put down my salary to $2,000. Received check for $10,000 from a friend for missions as a loan with only my name as security. My book is finished-the result of the hay-fever Sent to Publication Society 'Truth in Romance.' Before I die I hope to give a very different kind of book to the world. It is boiling in my heart. I have begun to work with carpenters' tools with my little boy, and am reading the New Testament through every 26 days, 10 chapters a day.

seasons.

I

shall not begin to write until I can see the whole book through at a glance. The remaining days of the month, viz. the Sundays, I propose to read the Old Testament--17 chapters each Sunday. In looking over my

books I find that from 1854 to 1883 I received of the

Lord on account of income.. donated in the time....

$279,500.98 and 124,541.39 and

used for other purposes....

$154,959.59

After two months of delight [at Marquette. Lake Superior] we turn our faces homeward. Have done little study. Have read several works: Agassiz's two series of Geological Sketches, St. Giles' Lecture on The Faiths of the World, Mathews on Use and Abuse of Words, Alcott's Emerson, Thomas à Kempis' Imitation, etc., and prepared address for 200th anniversary of the First Church, Charleston, S. C.

"The Board has appointed me their Commissioner to go to Mexico to investigate the propositions in regard to the $150,000 for school purposes.

After our

to-day out Have

long and severe struggle we close our books of debt and $144.61 on hand Laus Deo. preached four times to the hotel company. Hope that good has been done. I thank God for the tears I saw last I begin to-morrow my Spanish Have written apHeavy obligations press

Sunday. studies with more energy. peals for 14 papers. the Board. It is well not to have committed to paper the bitter experiences of the past six months. On Monday the 5th, T. P. Bell, of South Carolina, was appointed my assistant. His coming promises broader work for the Board. In seventy days have visited thirty-five cities and done what I could by day and by night in the states belonging to the S. B. Convention. To-day I finished 'The Carpenter's Son,' the fourth book I have prepared for the press in my vacations. After writing Finis' to the book, I ascended Mt. Agassiz, the second time this season, by way of recreation. The view there as a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Came here [New York] by request, as member of a committee representing some 70 Foreign Missionary Boards and Societies in England and America, to prepare programme for a World's Missionary Meeting to be held next June in London.

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has given me a copy of Thomas à Kempis. Oh, that I had continued to read this sacred wisdom since the days I first became acquainted with the work-in the childhood of my religious life. February 29, 1888. Fifteenth birthday and beautiful presents. Shall I see sweet sixteen? I have started a 'Decade of Missions from 1880 to 1890' as a supplement to my 'History of Foreign Missions.'

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How changed all of life! October 12th, at 2 A. M., the noblest woman of earth went into sleep. world with the world's best treasure gone. My earthly light-alas, alas! My earthly joy is to honor the memory of this noblest of women, truest of wives, most devoted of mothers, and most consecrated of Christians. Alas, alas! my dear friend and brother, James Boyce, is gone. A prince has fallen in Israel. The present state of our finances would be alarming but for two things-the Commission and the Divine Promises. Attended the Maryland

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Union. The address at Baltimore was almost extemporaneous after roaming for an hour over streets in agony of prayer. I committed myself entirely to the will of the Spirit, and could no more report what I said than I could fly. Unveiling of Lee's statue. A day never to be forgotten. One hundred thousand do honor to the great chieftain. Met a bevy of children and tried to teach them what the wisest might say every night:

"Now I lay me down to sleep,

"September 26, 1893.

With the close of the last fiscal year of the Foreign Mission Board, the unprecedented sum of $150,000 having been raised in commemoration of the Centenary of the Revival of Foreign Missions, I felt it my duty to retire from the Secretaryship of the Board. The action of the Board was most liberal and fraternal and the separation most loving. I recalled that I had given away about one-half of the monetary income of my life. President of the Board of Trustees of the Woman's College. I am giving myself to the work of languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish,

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