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MYSEIiF AND MY TVEIGHBORS. 



If God be foriis, whocan be against us?— 1{om.8:31. 



S\,|jrY little friends, I am now in the midst 

 ^M of a great" buzz." Thelotot ''neigli- 

 ~ bors " groupfd around me is greater 

 than it ever was before ; or, at least, so it 

 would seem ; and one very pleasant feature 

 of it is, that a great part of them are young 

 Christians that have just started out on that 

 jouraey you read about in the Pilgrim's 

 Progress I have been sending you of late. I 

 have a great many applications all the while 

 for places, as you know; and, in fact, a 

 great many moie than I can possibly find 

 places for. When the one who appeals has 

 seemed very deserving, I have, as 1 have 

 often told you, been in the habit of remem- 

 bering them to God when I kneel down aft- 

 er the hands are all gone to their homes. 

 Well, children, you can readily see that I 

 can not very consistently, or very conscien- 

 tiously, ask God to help me to find work for 

 those who do not have faith in him, and who 

 do not themselves go to him in prayer. Over 

 and over again have these prayers been ans- 

 wered in such a queer Avay that I myself 

 have been about as much astonished as any 

 one. 



Of course, you know I do not mean that 

 uniting with the Church, or getting up and 

 speaking in meeting, of itself, is going to 

 help any one to get work, or to get any thing 

 else they need badly ; but when a girl or boy, 



at the same time that he gets up in meeting, 

 resolves to do right, ami be faithful before 

 God, he will most assuredly get a pluce to 

 work, or get almost anything else he v/ants, 

 providing he has patience to work faithful- 

 ly, and has religion enough to want only 

 good and proper things. 



A few evenings ago, a young couple came 

 into the office. They were recently married, 

 and both, Avithin a few weeks, came out on 

 the side of Christian people. I told them I 

 could see no ])0ssible opening, but that we 

 would have, each and all of us, to make it a 

 subject of prayer. They seemed so ready 

 and willing, with the trustful, happy at- 

 mosphere of the recent meetings so manifest 

 in their faces, that it seemed to me that God 

 would surely heed our request. After they 

 went out I knelt, as usual; and while in 

 prayer it all came into my mind where I 

 should set them at work, so plainly that I 

 ended my request with thanks and praise for 

 the answer, which came almost before I had 

 got through asking. 



To tell you how it came I shall have to ex- 

 plain a little. Orders are coming very fast 

 now indeed. The packers, and* every one 

 who can be trusted with putting up goods, 

 are crowded. In spite of their best endeav- 

 ors, we have letters for goods piling up on 

 our tables, even while the goods are all fin- 

 ished and ready to be sent out, and nobody 

 to put them in boxes and send them off. 

 You doubtless think it is a very simple' 



