My dear brother:

Having learned that you are still passing through trial as to the possible loss of your remaining eye-sight, it Is on my heart to send a word of sympathy, and perhaps of encouragement too. We remember you in our prayers ascending to the throne of grace, asking the Lord that what remains of your sight may yet be conserved; but if His mind is otherwise, that you may be so cheered in His present love, and grace, and hope of glory before, that you may still be singing whilst waiting for the day of our body's redemption. The Holy Spirit's indwelling is the first-fruits of what is to come, though we partake in the fallen creation's groaning while waiting for the day of full and eternal triumph, when His welcome voice shall be heard calling us up to Himself. May this glorious hope, substantiated by faith, support and cheer you, dear brother, through what may yet remain of our journey here. The trials here may serve to make more sweet the deliverance at the close-and also beyond, when we review and consider from on high, with the Lord, all the way of the wilderness through which He has been with us!

In Christ, your brother through grace,

In encouragement to those going out into new fields, with much self-denial, we give the following:-

Loizeaux brothers:
Dear Friends:-

Hamilton, Montana, Nov. 3d.

I am a "shut in," and the snow lies deep upon the mountains, but this Sunday evening I will talk with you about the distribution of your most generous gift of tracts which we sorely needed, My helper, Mr. Lenton, who sells clothing in the country and in lumber camps, was converted last winter and now says he is after souls. At his 2d visit to permanent lumber camps, he took, at his own expense, 25 tract-holders with 18 pockets each, and placed them in 25 "bunk-houses." In his recent trip he found 24 of them nearly empty. In this fact alone we see God's care. He placed in these over 3,000 tracts, not putting more than three of a kind in one tract-holder; so giving a large variety of reading to about 1,000 men in all.

At his first call, on showing his tracts, the head cook says, "I felt like kicking him out;" on this trip he asked for tracts. In another place the librarian was so opposed that Mr. Lenton hesitated about calling. He knocked, however, and the salutation was, "Oh, is that you? come right in; take a chair," and he could speak to him of salvation.

A minister whom he met by the way said, "When you were here before, I was not born again; now I am. Praise the Lord." This man, converted less than a year, by God's grace is now "casting bread upon the waters." One minister said of the tracts, "I like them best of any you have had." Mr. Lenton was delighted with the illustrated ones for families.

We pray for you in our "Pray-for-Revival-League." I have just passed my 80th birthday, and thank you. Mrs. J. M. West