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he wanted pen and paper. An internal voice asked "if be were will- 

 ing to forgive those he had injured? " and he immediately answered in 

 the affirmative. He expressed in writing a wish to see the minister of 

 the •' Christian " church and another neighbor with whom he had been 

 on bad terms. Both came and treated the sufferer with kindness and 

 sympathy ; and then when he was reconciled with his brother men, he 

 felt emboldened to approach God and offered up " unutterable prayer." 

 A prayer-meeting was held in Ansel Bourne's house, and he wrote 

 saying he was determined thenceforth to be on the Lord's side. On 

 November 11th, just two weeks from the time of his seizure, he was 

 carried to the Christian chapel, and though unable to speak or hear, he 

 endeavored to signify his altered feelings to the congregation by stand- 

 ing and holding up his hands. He also wrote a very touching message 

 to be delivered for him by the minister. He was requested by the 

 minister, after his second visit to the chapel, to stand up in the pulpit, 

 and here suddenly his hearing returned— in his own words, " Every 

 manner of sound that comes from the living things of nature broke 

 upon his ears" .... his tongue was unloosed instantly, and he 

 exclaimed, in the hearing of the whole congregation, " Glory to God 

 and the Lamb forever ! " It is needless to say that this scene, and the 

 moving exhortation from the convert which followed, caused the deep- 

 est emotion in the congregation. 



From that day onward, until the 17th of January, 1887, Ansel 

 Bourne's faculties were unimpaired. But two weeks after the restora- 

 tion of his speech and hearing in chapel, he had a "vision" which 

 commanded him to " Settle your worldly business and go to work for 

 me." This vision came back several times in the same night, and the 

 result of all these experiences was that Ansel Bourne became an 

 " evangelist," and for more than thirty years went about preaching, 

 attending at revivals and performing strenuously all the offices of an 

 unattached minister. At the wish of his second wife, whom he married 

 in 1882, he gave up his itinerant preaching ; and he thinks the distress 

 of mind, caused by leaving what he considered the path of duty, may 

 have led to the strange mental experiences which I have already de- 



(To be Continued.) 



A Match- Striking Bluejay.— The note in the November, 1895, 

 Naturalist, concerning the striking of matches by one of the mon- 

 keys (Cebus) has just fallen under my notice. 



It may interest the readers of the Naturalist to know that a neigh- 

 bor of mine once had a little bluejay (Gyanocitta eristata (Linn.)) which 



