And now, Mr. Breacher, if you will shust exblain two more passages, I shall be, oh, so happy dat I vas here to-night! One of them ish where it saish de vicked shall pe cast into a lake dat burns mit fire. O! Mr. Breacher, shall I pe cast into dat lake if I am vicked, or shust close by or near to, shust near enough to be comfortable? Oh, I hope you tell me I shall pe cast py a good way off, and I vill pe so glad I vas here to-night. De odder passage is dat vich saish blessed are day who do dese commandments, dat dey may enter in troo de gates into de city. Now, Mr. Breacher, if I vas good, shall I go into de city or only shust close py or near enough to see vhat I have lost. Please exblain and I shall pe so glad I vas here to-night."

In 1834, John T. Johnson started a Sunday-school in Georgetown, Ky. The members committed to memory portions of the New Testament and on the next Lord's day repeated it. Sometimes whole chapters would be repeated at a time, thus differing materially from our present Sunday-school, where each scholar is supplied with lesson leaves and simply reads off the questions and answers, and the word has no abiding place. While the

pel presents, and love for God will produce obedience, and obedience will produce pardon, as Christ has promised pardon to all who believe and obey, and the Holy Spirit is bestowed on all such and eternal life will be given to all who continued to be governed by the word of God.

The reformation has had a salutary influence upon the Protestant churches. It was very common in those days to hear them praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to convert the sinner and give him faith, and sinners would continue a long time at the mourner's bench and the preacher praying for God to give them faith and convert them, and in some churches the applicant gave in his experience, and a committee canvassed it, deciding whether he was a fit subject to obey. Many good persons would seek in vain for weeks and months, at the mourner's bench, for faith. They have learned a lesson from these reformers who told the penitent believer what to do, and after obeying as it was during the days of the apostles, it was not an hour until the convert, in possession of the Holy Spirit, went on his way rejoicing. The reformation of the sixteenth century struck a death blow at the Inquisition, but it