How favourable was the impression Hannington had already made upon the Missionary Society is apparent from the fact that the bishopric of East Equatorial Africa was offered him.

Even the day he got married to Hannah Marshman, the missionary's daughter, he showed that he was a soldier before all else.

A GREAT MISSIONARY EXPLORER.

Now-a-days we know him as one of the greatest missionary explorers of our times.

In the year 1840 David Livingstone, being then just over twenty-seven years old, went out to South Africa as a missionary.

He made his way up country to the furthest district in which the London Missionary Society then had a station.

But just when it looked as if the missionary's life had reached its last day, the lion suddenly fell down dead from the effect of the bullets which he had fired into it.

" This chief would have been willing to help Livingstone to convert his tribe at a great pace, only his method was not to the missionary's liking.

Thus in May, 1892, when the financial year of the institution began, they had in hand for their School, Bible, Missionary and Tract funds only £17 8s.

A sick missionary in the wilds of Africa sent £44 17s.

One day he went to Warrington, and whilst there saw a placard announcing a missionary meeting, at which the Rev. William Roby was to speak.

But the missionary was not to be denied.

His early missionary efforts were crowned with success.

It must not be thought that a missionary's only cares are those connected with preaching.

From the letter to Mr. G. Unwin, which is here reproduced in facsimile, it will be seen that Robert Moffat's labours were not even then finished; for up to the last he took the greatest interest in the missionary cause.

For her example produced a wave of religious life and missionary enthusiasm in America, the like of which has hardly ever been known.

It is always well to remember that the man who serves his country as a good citizen, as a soldier, as a statesman, or in any other walk of life, deserves our admiration as much as the missionary or the minister of the Gospeleach and all such are servants of the great King.

she exclaimed, as she rejoined her mother in the sitting-room; "but I did not know that I should have to turn missionary the first night and give her a Bible!" Upstairs Evadne buried her face among the pillows and the aching heart burst its bonds in one long quivering cry of pain.

She had heard her fellow-passengers speak of a Pastor S., who had been sent to America as a missionary; and she begged me to seek him out, and take her to him, that she might consult him as to what she had best do.

HEROINES OF THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE.

I feel that I could go on an arctic expedition without a moment's hesitation, be a missionary in darkest Africa.

Let us not overlook, as an important matter, the very existence of that missionary spirit which has already awakened Christians in different countries from their long and dishonorable slumbers, and bids fair to produce, in due season, a general movement of the Church upon earth.

Yet the missionary cause must ultimately succeed.

© 16Mar36; A94114. Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (A); 11Feb64; R331625. RODEHEAVER, HOMER A. Singing Black; twenty thousand miles with a music missionary.

Christian & Missionary Alliance (PWH); 8Nov67; R422137.