"You have stood face to face with the enemy for years, and know his strength and his resources.

Have you any well-grounded hope of ever dislodging him from this stronghold ?" "I have just said it, Mr.Dinneford.But until the churches and the people come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty, he cannot be dislodged.

I am standing here, sustained in my work by a small band of earnest Christian men and women, like an almost barren rock in the midst of a down-rushing river on whose turbulent surface thousands are being swept to destruction.

The few we are able to rescue are as a drop in the bucket to the number who are lost.

In weakness and sorrow, almost in despair sometimes, we stand on our rock, with the cry of lost souls mingling with the cry of fiends in our ears, and wonder at the churches and the people, that they stand aloof--nay, worse, turn from us coldly often--when we press the claims of this worse than heathen people who are perishing at their very doors.
"Sir," continued the missionary, warming on his theme, "I was in a church last Sunday that cost its congregation over two hundred thousand dollars.