I suppose there is some good done by public preaching, but it is the preacher who is ready, in the face-to-face opportunity, who comes home laden with sheaves.

Mr.
Walker was always ready.

Meet a man when he might, where he might, just the right word was on his tongue.

And that warm grip of his hand, into how many souls has it infused a new and spiritual life.
So he begot his children in the gospel; and by his sermons, which were always thoughtful, he built them up into Christian characters, as a workman who needeth not to be ashamed.

Our Cutterbul deacon says to me since his death, 'I _never_ saw such a man.' When he left for Constantinople in 1859, perhaps one hundred men waited upon him out of the city, and he spoke to every one, and repeated nothing, but had a special word for each, exactly adapted to his case." Mrs.Walker returned to the United States, with her four children, in the following summer, and has since been recognized,--in connection with a benevolent lady in New York city,--as sustaining a relation of maternal guardianship to returned children of missionaries.
At the close of the year Mr.Wheeler and others made a visit to Choonkoosh, two days' journey from Harpoot.