calls His true workers by an inward spiritual sense and emotion, but also by outward circumstances and providences. Miss Leffingwell began at once to do what was nearest at hand and that which was most needed to be done, and wisely waited for the more definite call to the foreign field which she probably felt would eventually come.

Wherever this call may have had its beginning, and however it may have developed, there is no question that it culminated while she was at Davis, West Virginia, serving as a pastor of the Free Methodist church of that place. It is also certain that her call to China as a special field came to her clearly during the same year. One little circum stance seems to have had great weight with her as to her immediate going. While at Davis she suf fered much with tonsilitis, so that towards the latter part of the year she could not speak to a large congregation without great difficulty. She says in one of her letters, referring to this throat trouble and its relation to her work: "This will effectually close my labors here by making it plainly visible to all that I can not stay and preach another year if I desired to do so. I doubt if my throat is strong enough to preach to congregations."

In confirmation of this, she writes to her sister after she had actually arrived in Yun-nan Fu, in China, as follows: "It may seem like poetry to you, but it seems to me that when I signed all the papers for coming here, I was embarking in a little boat in the strong current of God's will, and the mighty tide bore me across the ocean, lifting me over the highest mountains, and dropped me here South of

the clouds in this city (Yun means clouds, nan means South and Fu means city), where now I am in the brightest summer land, where the flowers bloom all the year around, even out of doors, and where I only have to speak in conversational tones to little groups of people."

Miss Leffingwell's letters during her last year in America are very interesting as showing the intensity of her missionary spirit. She says in one letter: "The work of the Lord is the most satisfactory work in the world. If I had a hundred lives I would give them all to be spent in foreign missionary, home missionary or evangelistic work. After homes and lands have all passed away, what is done for God will never die."

These lines, written by her while at Davis, show the depth of her experience, and the response of her heart to the call of God:

O Jesus, I am Thine. Speak and I hear,
My undivided time and love are Thine.
My worldly work and labors disappear;
But Thou and all Thy promises are mine.
Thine everlasting arms do me uphold,

'Tis all I have to lean on for support.
'Tis all I need, 'tis more than wealth untold.
Thou can'st and wilt lead safely to the port.

This next quotation may seem to some a little extravagant, but to those who know the intensity of her nature it will only reveal a little more of the deep devotion of her spirit: "There is nothing that can begin to compare with gospel work. I would rather be a successful evangelist than to be the queen of England. Last Saturday, while thinking

about it, I was so blessed that I could almost see myself en route for China, and could even look through to the resurrection morn, and see myself being caught up in the clouds with those rescued from heathen darkness."

The next extract seems almost prophetic. It appears that some minister, whose eyes had not been opened to see that the mountains were filled with horses and chariots of fire, had been complaining to her about the amount of money wasted in for eign mission efforts.

About this she writes as follows: "A minister recently said to me: 'So much has been spent on the heathen and so little accomplished. So many have died and some so soon after reaching their fields, and what good have they done? Simply wasted their passage money.' There is another side to it, however. I thought, as Jesus did not rebuke the woman who broke the alabaster box, surely He will not rebuke one whose span of life may be very short in the foreign field. I believe if I should go to a warm climate it would be just what I am needing and I would live a long time; but if not, I do not think Jesus would call my going wasteful or useless." And then she added, possibly as a little balm to the feelings of her loved ones who, perhaps, did not want her to go, but which strongly shows that she did not wait in idleness for the definite call to go, "However, if you knew how busy I am, you would think there was not auch danger of my ever going."

Miss Leffingwell, among the other excellent quali fications that she had for foreign mission work,

possessed one which stands out prominently. It was a strong and abiding faith in God, that by His providence and care her needs would be supplied. She seemed to revel in this faith, and is constantly showing that she greatly enjoyed the results of it. Her sister, who lives in Bradford, Mrs. Woodard, and her husband, seemed to feel a special care for the "youngest sister," as Miss Leffingwell frequently called herself in their family correspondence, and these two noble people frequently ministered in some way to her temporal needs. This is referred to in one of Miss Leffingwell's letters, written from Davis, West Virginia, to Mrs. Woodard, in which she says, "You ask me if there is anything you can send us. I can't think of anything. Perhaps this is the happiest year of my life. Having Ellen with me makes me think I am at home; and then, I am so much in love with the work of the Lord! mother used to sing to us:

"But when I am happy in Him

December's as pleasant as May.'

Our

"We are both well and happy, and 'the Lord supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory.' Praise His name!" With a little variation of phraseology, this sentiment is repeated over and over in her letters, and there are but few of them that do not express it in one form or another. She says in a letter written in March, 1895, also from Davis, "All our needs are abundantly supplied." In another letter during the same year, she adds as a postscript, as if she had forgotten an important part of her letter, "God supplies all our needs."

IF THEY WERE WE AND WE WERE THEY.

If those who now sit in darkness

And pray to their idols of stone, Off'ring oblations and waiting

For answers that never will come,

Changed lives with us, what would you say

If they were we and we were they?

If they were supplied with Bibles
And churches throughout the land,
With schools and teachers also,

And preachers at every hand,
What would you think their duty, pray,
If they were we and we were they?

If in their towns were so many

Who were preaching the blessed Word
That if one had many list'ners,

The next by but few would be heard.
What would you have them do to-day
If they were we and we were they?

They are dying without knowing
That for them a Savior has died.
Is there no rule for our action?

Must each for himself decide?
The Golden Rule would we not see,
If we were they and they were we?

If they lived in ease and splendor,

Spending dollars for selfish pride,
But for us a few pennies, or nothing;
When God's books are opened wide
What think you will the judgment be
If we were they and they were we?

-Clara A. Leffingwell.