PARIS IN CANADA. 'There is that scattereth and yet T is difficult to compress into a few ceived at Kingston was to meet one who came to the decision to devote her life to Christ from attending the Bible Readings at our Y.W.C.A., 26, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris. It was very sweet, as she pleaded for the work in which she has now been engaged for nine years as Zenana Missionary in India, to hear her trace the little seed sown in much faith and prayer by one of our most valued workers in Paris over ten years ago. Another, sister to one of the girls in our Childrens' Home, lives not far from Kingston. The father, after cruelly separating the children from their mother, placed her in a French convent outside Paris. The mother sorely fretted at the separation, and finding herself entirely amongst strangers, neither speaking nor understanding her language, nor she theirs, and of a different religion, became ill and was sent to a French hospital. One day, as a French Protestant pasteur, who was were only allowed to see her through t besought us with tears to take her ou her to her children; but the 'Mother' unless her husband wrote to that effect. A that the English law gave no husband po his wife against her will in a foreign hou that we should at once go to the British have immediate steps taken for her rele woman was allowed to come to us as she being permitted to put on her bonnet and to be the property of her husband! We to where the children had been left, and fo boy had been interred that very afterno little girls, not having been paid for by th restored to us. The joy of the mother in the extreme as we drove all three to ou in the Home, 77, Avenue Wagram, where children were nursed for some weeks. Whe had sufficiently recovered, she left us for a the children for the Orphanage. A short t were called to claim the dead body of Englishwoman in one of the French hospita minutes before her death, had written our slip of paper. It brought a mingled feeling yet thankfulness, on entering the mortuary through our influence as Lady in Charge of a hospital in Montreal. One who in the earlier years of our work gave us many an anxious hour by her wayward and foolish acts, being one whom prayerful pleading appeared only to incite to fresh daring, whom, half in despair, we had helped out to Canada, waited one Sunday, after the Bishop of Ontario had been preaching for our work in New York, to tell us of the new power of a consecrated life. Now she is a frequent contributor to the Y.W.C.A. Magazine in Canada; and in many ways the boldness of wrong-doing has been turned into the courage of faith. But I must stop and bring our friends back to the present aspect of our work in Paris, which is increasing on every hand under the guidance of my faithful workers. We need younger ladies to work under those who have borne the burden and heat of the day now from eight to seventeen years. If I could but tell the joy of such service to those who have time and means at their disposal, surely this need would quickly be filled? Are there not many on the threshold of life conscious of undeveloped power and energy, to whom there comes a dim longing for scope and opportunity to make their lives a blessing to others? Let them come and find it in helping to cheer and brighten the lives of their own country-people in a foreign land. SOIRÉE OF WELCOME TO MR 'Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all HE Soirée of Welcome to Mrs. on the occasion of her first visi to Paris, took place on the eve 16th, at 8.30. The large dining is usual on such festive occasi adorned with plants and baske and very punctually at the h invited guests began to arrive. These were part old inmates of the Homes, chiefly gov there were also a goodly sprinkling of new a of the Work, whom we were very glad Amongst them was the Countess of -fro who said that it was very interesting to her she is, in her own country, in promoting t young women-to be amongst us, and tha carry such a bright picture of our Home b to her own northern land. Several kind friends added to the general e playing and singing; and a touching recitati with much pathos by H. Waller, Esq. The chief attraction of the evening, howev Lewis herself, whose heart must indeed have b Towards the end of the evening Mrs. Travers Lewis, though still suffering from partial loss of voice, rose and, in her own well-chosen words, thanked the assembled friends for their welcome, and said how much pleasure it gave her to be amongst them again, and to find that all had gone on so well in her absence. She then introduced the subject of a New Guild, to be called 'The Guild of St. John the Apostle of Love,' which some of those residing in the Home were very anxious to see established. It was intended to bring more prominently before them the key-note of the life and motive power of St. John the Divine- He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love'-and to promote love and goodwill toward each other. Belonging simply to a Guild could not do this; but the love of Christ, of which St. John wrote, wrought in our heart by the power of the Holy Spirit of God, would. She emphasized the power of the Holy Ghost, lest the little badge or emblem adopted by the Guild might mislead those who were anxious to become members. What all needed was sanctified lips. When the Holy Ghost appeared upon the day of Pentecost, He chose 'cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them,' in which to enshrine the countless gifts of blessing He was bestowing upon the individual representatives of the new-born Church of this dispensa |