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given satisfaction to the Alliance. Mr. J. W. Hunt, 

 whom I met in London in 1886, and who afterwards 

 called to see me in Montreal in regard to my coming to 

 Australia, presented me with an address in the name of 

 the Alliance. The newspaper reporter says of it: "The 

 address, expressive of the high esteem in which he 

 and Mrs. Lucas are held, and of the good wishes for 

 their future welfare, is richly illuminated and hand- 

 somely bound in morocco, forming a work of art of 

 which the recipient might well be proud." If I may 

 be proud of the artistic get-up of the address, I should 

 have a strange heart indeed if I were not very much 

 more proud, or at any rate thankful, for what it con- 

 tains. Never, in all my life, have I been more 

 conscious of the Divine favor ; never more fully con- 

 vinced that I was working for God and humanity. 

 Counting sermons and other talks on the Sabbath, I 

 have spoken, on the average, eight times a week for 

 the past six months. Sometimes I have spoken 

 eleven times a week. During the whole campaign 

 not one appointment was missed. All thanks be to 

 God. 



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