creased. The total income was £81,924. The ordinary receipts of the society, exclusive of legacies, had fallen short of those of the previous year by £5000. The number of missionaries is now 170,-28 in Polynesia; 21 in the West Indies; 38 in South Africa; 60 in India; and 6 in Madagascar.

Church of England Missionary Society.

AT the Church Missionary Meeting on the 6th of May, the following statistics of the year were given :

Wesleyan Missionary Society.

THE Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society was held on Monday, the 4th of May. The report stated that the income of the Society for the year amounted to £141,638, being more than the receipts of any former year, and exceeding those of 1861 by the sum of £4357. Of this sum £105,213 had been received from the Home districts, and £36,425 from Foreign districts. The expenditure during the year, including a grant of £1000 towards the erection of a chapel in Paris, amounted to £146,537. Twenty-nine missionaries had been sent out since the last anniversary. Ten missionaries have been removed by death. The number of stations or circuits now occupied by the Society is 605, and the number of chapels and preaching places 4618. There are 889 missionaries and assistant missionaries, and 17,000 other agents of the Society, such as catechists and Sabbath school teachers.

British and Foreign Bible Society.

THE British and Foreign Bible Society held its anniver

sary on the 6th of May, the President, Lord Shaftesbury, in the chair. The receipts of the year applicable to the general purposes of the Society had been £84,263, the amount received for Bibles and Testaments £73,727, 4s., making a total of £157,990, 4s., being £9693, 17s. 4d. less than in the preceding year. The issues of the Society for the year had been 2,133,860 copies.

BOOKS.

Price

EVANGELISTIC TRACTS. No. I. Edited by Duncan Matheson.
Glasgow: John M'Callum. 32mo, 32 pages.
One Penny.

A neat and cheap little book, full of precious truths and striking stories. The incidents are reprinted from "The Herald of Mercy," and are told with all the earnestness and directness of aim for the winning of souls which characterize that excellent paper.

THE UNKNOWN WAY AND THE KNOWN GUIDE. By the Rev. D. Macgregor, M.A. Glasgow: D. Bryce and Co. 32mo, 21 pages. Price One Penny.

"A pastor's gift to young pilgrims," full of wise and affectionate counsels, and written in a simple, but vigorous and attractive style.

FATIMA IN THE FIELDS.
A Missionary Anecdote.

THE harem's high and jealous wall
Enclosed the captive day by day;
She drooped beneath the splendid thrall,
She sighed, now for the evening fall,
Now for the morning ray.

Hot, heavy noontides came and went,
And oh, she thought they lingered long!
The fountain's play no pleasure lent,
And sickly seemed the rose's scent,
And sad the caged bird's song.

Listless she trained the flowing shoot
Or braided gems into her hair;
Her touch was languid on the lute,
Her voice was tremulous or mute
E'en o'er her best-loved air.

Oh, pity on the eastern bride,
The pining prisoner of her lord;
The pearl whose gleam the sea caves hide,
The dove whose sun-gilt wing is tied,
Although with silken cord.

But like some spell-dissolving word,
Christ's call proclaimeth liberty!
Heaven's glorious freedom glads her lord,
And Fatima is free!

Her steps are through the meadows led,
Amid the diamond dews of dawn;
Fair, flowery fields are round her spread,
The azure arch is o'er her head,
Her veil is half withdrawn.

Though timid as a long caged bird,
Joy glistens in her gentle gaze;
And all her soul, in silence stirred,
In speech unbroke by spoken word,
O'erflows with peace and praise.

A freshness, as of summer morn,
Breathes o'er the desert of her heart;
And flowers of feeling newly born
Its life-long wastes with bloom adorn,
Whose sweetness ne'er shall part.

Long may she lead, mid happy scenes,
A spotless and a useful life;
With loftier lot than Indian queen's,
While on one faithful arm she leans
A free-a Christian wife.

A.R. O.

EDINBURGH: T. NELSON AND SONS.

BY THE REV. THOMAS BAIN, M.A., CUPAR-ANGUS. URING the revival with which the Lord visited Scotland two years ago, many young children were awakened, and not a few, we trust, were savingly converted.

In one of the fishing villages on the east coast, several boys who had found the Lord met together for prayer every

evening. One dark winter night, while so engaged, a thoughtless little girl was passing through the streets of that village, when her attention was arrested by the sound of singing, which proceeded from the little room where these dear boys were met. She

came close to the door, and thought she would like very much to enter and see what the boys were doing. Afraid of disturbing them by knocking at the door, she tried the latch, but found that "the door was shut."

The thought suddenly entered her mind, "What if this were heaven, and I now shut out?" It was the Holy Spirit who sent that thought into her mind, and she returned to her home in deep concern about her soul. For weeks she continued in great distress and anxiety, and all that Christian friends and ministers could say could give her no relief. One day, sitting in great despondency in her mother's house, she opened her Bible, which she was now earnestly searching for rest, and reading the tenth chapter of John, she came to the ninth verse, and read, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." This, said she, is what I have been seeking. Christ tells me HE is the door, and if I enter in, I will be saved. She believed Christ's word, she entered in at that open door, and she found immediate pardon, and acceptance, and peace.

Dear young people, you are all by nature shut out of heaven. Sin has shut the door into God's family and God's kingdom against you. Oh, how fearful, when you come to the door of heaven, if you should find the door shut, and you for ever shut out! God has opened for you a door to his friendship and love, On Calvary that door was opened, when Jesus said, "It is finished.” And now Christ is speaking to you just as he spoke to that dear girl; and he is saying, "I AM THE DOOR; by ME, if any man enter in, he shall be saved.”

I know you would all like to get to heaven at last, and most of you expect to enter there after this life is over. But remember none will ever be admitted to that holy place except those who enter in by this open door.

"Well, I do intend to come to Jesus, and obtain,