Echoes from Paris. 21 at parting, as a token of approbation. Thus the little Christian had the means of procuring the meal she so sorely needed. "Become as little children." Ah, in how many ways we need this reminder! Let us, as we draw near the close of another year, cast ourselves anew upon our Master in simple faith, and fervent, united, definite supplication. While we remember that "workless faith the Lord will not regard," we can accomplish nothing until we be “endued with power from on high." All true service is but faith in exercise. Dear friends, pray for us. Pray for the great work among our unprotected young country-women in a strange land, in circumstances of peculiar trial and temptation. Make their cause your own; they are very near to us. Pray for one and all of the workers who are Mrs. Lewis' office-bearers and fellow-helpers. Hold up "the hands that hang down." Ask that the necessary funds may come in, "not by constraint but willingly." Let it not be a stigma upon our Christianity that we have "unconverted purses!" So may you have fellowship, not with us merely, but with Him who "came not to be ministered unto, but to minister; and to give His life a ransom for many." SUPPOSE. BY EMMA A. SMULLER. UPPOSE the roots of the beautiful trees Should say, "We refuse to grow; We work in the dark where nobody sees; If we stop, why, nobody'll know." Would the leafy screen Of the trees be green And fair to the eye? No, no! For each in his place, whether great or small, Must labour and live for the good of all. Who cares for me while the river wide In its joy and pride If its springs were dry? No, no! For each in his place, whether great or small, --Selected. SELFISHNESS. F all that have tried the selfish experiment, let one come forth and say he has succeeded. He that has made gold his idol-has it satisfied him? He that has toiled in the fields of ambition—has he been repaid? He that has ransacked every theatre of sensual enjoyment— is he content? Can any answer in the affirmative ? Not one. And when his conscience shall ask him, and ask it will, "Where are the hungry whom you gave meat? The thirsty, whom you gave drink? The stranger, whom you sheltered ? The naked, whom you clothed? The prisoned, whom you visited? The sick, whom you ministered unto?" How will he feel, when he must answer, "I have done none of these things-I thought only for myself"?—Dr. Johnson. Echoes from Paris. OUR CHILDREN'S HOME. 23 VISIT to the Orphanage must now rejoice the hearts of those who go to see it, as much as it would have saddened them six months ago. The children look so well and rosy, and feel so bright and energetic after the beautiful change to the Le Vésinet home. En-hakkore" was the name we gave our temporary abode, and indeed it was "the well (or house) of him who cried" for help in a time of great distress (Judges xv. 19). The spiritual life of the bairnies seemed to grow there in a marked manner; and the happy freedom of their country life revived both body and soul, so that strangers remarked continually upon it. But yet "there is no place like Home," and such is the Orphanage to them, which made them all very glad indeed to return to Neuilly, to visit their old nooks and corners, dear to each and all from pleasant associations. There is still a debt of £57 remaining for the new drainage and repairs which illness had necessitated. It would give so much joy to have this cleared off at once. Would it not be possible to get some one to do this as a thank-offering for some special happiness received, perhaps this summer, during a visit to the Exhibition or elsewhere? So the hearts of those who sow and those who reap "may rejoice together." Might not some of those who, while everything here has been raised to treble its former price, have enjoyed the comfort of Miss Leigh's Home at a very moderate figure, show their gratitude by helping in this themselves, or in interesting their rich friends about it? Then, indeed, would their life in Paris not have been in vain, and a substantial proof might follow such words as those we read in We hope to give our children a Christmas Tree and Entertainment. Who will emulate our kind friends at the Exhibition, and contribute to afford our little ones A Happy Christmas? Parcels may be sent to 22a, Queen's Road, Bayswater, or to the Orphanage, 35, Boulevard Bineau, Neuilly, Paris. ARRIVAL IN CANADA OF THE BISHOP OF ONTARIO AND MRS. TRAVERS LEWIS. HE Bishop of Ontario and Mrs. Lewis, on the arrival of their ship at Quebec, were met by the Lord Bishop of Quebec, Colonel Montizambert, and other friends, who gave the travellers a hearty welcome to Canada. On reaching Montreal the Bishop presided over the Upper House of the Triennial Synod of the Church of England in Canada. An address of welcome awaited Mrs. Lewis, inviting her to become President of the Women's Auxiliary of the Domestic and Foreign Missions of the Church of England in Canada. Enclosed was a resolution to that effect, unanimously passed by the Women's Auxiliary. Echoes from Paris. 25 Mrs. Lewis was greeted most warmly and lovingly by the wives of the Bishops, and the whole assembly rose to receive her. Mrs. Baldwin, wife of the Lord Bishop of Huron, in a few affectionate, well-chosen words, presented their new President to the meeting. In reply, Mrs. Lewis said she hoped she might work by their side for the one object for which they were striving. She felt it a great privilege to be one of the pioneers in a country where so much of the ground was still untrodden. At the same time there was a great responsibility. How much need was there to remember the words of St. Paul: 'Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body" (2 Cor. iv. 10). She trusted that the members of the Women's Auxiliary might so walk daily that the life of each would testify for her crucified and risen Lord, and not to glorify self. So should those who came after them trace His footprints in the path they had trodden. The Bishop and Mrs. Lewis left Montreal for a short rest at Ottawa, prior to going on to Kington, where the inhabitants are preparing a public reception. Mrs. Lewis has already many friends in the Dominion; and her name and work being so widely known ensures her an earnest welcome everywhere. Not alone as the wife of the Lord Bishop of Ontario, but as the friend of the English and American girls in Paris, all will be anxious to do her honour, and show their sympathy with, and appreciation of, her noble life-work. The Ottawa Free Press of Sept. 24, in announcing the arrival of the Lord Bishop and Mrs. Lewis in the city, has given a very admirable and detailed account of the philanthropic work of which she was the originator and promoter. As "a good thing cannot be done too often," perhaps a good story cannot be told too frequently, and we |