Editor Help and Food :

I was much gratified to see your remarks as to the offering box at the Lord's table, in answer to Question 7 of the March number of your esteemed paper. For the furtherance of the object you had before you in those remarks, and to encourage the timid or poor in their giving, permit me to relate what occurred very recently in my own experience.

One Lord's day morning I found myself, when the box came round, with but sixteen cents' change in my pocket. I had also a two-dollar bill, and had to make choice between giving it or the sixteen cents. I thought I could ill spare the two-dollar bill, as I have no regular income of any kind whatever, and during the last few months expenditures in the household had considerably overbalanced receipts. But I had just been recalling the grace of Him who, though rich, had for our sakes become poor, and given up all, even His life, for us. And I thought, Surely sixteen cents would be a mean, a miserably small offering to give immediately after our sweet, symbolical reminder (in the bread and wine) of what everlasting and immeasurable obligations I was under to Him. So, freely, though not without some faint misgivings, the two dollars went to the box. Now, see how the Lord rebuked my doubt and hesitations:The very next morning the first mail brought a letter from a distant land, in which was folded a ten-dollar bill. As I opened it before my wife (who knew what I had done the day before), she exclaimed, "There, see how the Lord has at once restored us fivefold ! " The skeptic would, perhaps, smile at this, and say, "Only a remarkable coincidence"; but we who know Christ's tenderness and grace, that condescends even to the weakness and questionings of our wavering minds in reference to the giving of a few cents, less or more, to His cause, can see in it a lovely manifestation of His interest in the collections, who still, as of old, sits " over against the treasury." ONE OF HIS OWN