"HOWARD LAKE, MINN., Sept., 1889.

"Dear Brother,-

"Brother L.'s business takes him through the villages and towns of this state, and he has many an opportunity for sowing the seed of the gospel. One Saturday evening, having entered the town of G–, and made preparations for staying over the Lord's day, he was asked by a friend to come to the barn, to look at a horse. On entering the barn, an open oat-sack met his eye, and into it he quietly dropped a tract. This tract was put into the sack in the hope that this friend, whom he knew to be a stranger to God's love, would find and read it. But ' God moves in a mysterious way,' and as this oat-sack belonged to a minister who kept his horse in the same barn, the minister found the tract and took it home to read. Knowing the town to be an ungodly one, his curiosity was excited, and he wondered much by whom the tract had been dropped. The next day, as he was having a vacation, he attended services held by a minister of another denomination. Looking over the congregation, he saw a man turning to his Bible, and perceiving him to be a stranger, he thought, 'There is the man who put the tract in the oat-sack.' After meeting, he spoke to him, and finding him a follower of the Master, invited him to his house. The acquaintance then commenced resulted in the blessing spoken of in the following letter addressed to him lately. M.F.S.

"My Dear Brother,-

" It has been some time since I wrote you, and some strange things have transpired since then ; one of them is that a preacher should be brought out into the light as shed forth by Jesus in His Word. A small beginning ofttimes, under God's care and guidance, has a very great and worthy ending. For instance, a tract dropped in the mouth of an oat sack is a small thing-a small beginning, but the conversion of forty or fifty sinners, and perhaps more, and the blessing and upbuilding of a number of God's weak children-among them a preacher,-and the gathering together of a company of God's children as the result thus far, is a great ending; and the end is not yet. Who can tell whereunto this work, begun so simply, will grow. Go on, my brother, with your distribution of gospel-tracts:try another oat-sack,-it seems to be very fruitful ground. The great result of your work in that respect only eternity will reveal…… W.H.S.