But I have more to tell you than this. We have not waited for the chapel to be finished before we occupied it, for the school-room in which we have been meeting for the past six months was too small to hold all the people who wanted to pray to God; and so last Sunday, with Mr. Cameron's permission, we moved into the "Children's Memorial Church," where there is plenty of room to accommodate a great many.

There are no windows or proper doors put on yet, and the roof has only a temporary covering of thatch, so that, of course, it was not nearly so comfortable as it will be. But the people did not seem to mind, but thought it nice to have plenty of room, and not to be obliged to sit on one another's toes, as they had to do in the school-room.

This is the Malagasy "New Year's Eve," but it is not like New Year's Eve in England, when sometimes the snow falls, and the ponds are frozen, and little boys and girls try to find a warm place near the fire. No; it is warm here now, the peaches are just ripe, and we can sit with our doors and windows wide open in the day time and not feel cold.

It

A little while ago there was a great shouting, and everywhere around the Malagasy children were running to and fro, holding bundles of burning grass in their hands. was a very pretty sight, and although these children do not shout "hurrah” as you do, yet their voices tell you that they are glad, and that this is a happy season with ithem. They did the same yesterday evening. It is one of their customs at the close of the year. To-morrow, the parents of a great many will kill a fat bullock, and then there will be feasting and visiting of friends for several days, and after that, perhaps a few of the children will want! the doctor; because, like some boys and girls in England, they

did not know when they had enough. We hope that the new year will be a very happy one to the Malagasy children, and that during it many of them will grow wiser and better. Before another Malagasy New Year arrives, I think the "Children's Memorial Church" will be quite finished.

I must try and write to you often about it, and let you know what we do and how we get on; and because it is the "Children's Church," and I cannot do all that is required without help, perhaps I shall sometimes ask you to help again with your half-pennies, and pennies, and sixpences. Before I close this letter, shall I tell you of one or two things we want this year? Let me mention three :

1. A Communion service.

2. A white cloth for the Communion table.

3. An eight-day clock for the inside of the church.

A little money from a few Sunday-schools will secure these for us, and if they are sent off soon they will perhaps get here by the time the church is ready to be publicly opened. I will only add, "Good-bye, dear young friends.”

CAST thy bread upon the waters, sow in faith the little seed,
Be of great results expectant, for the harvest is decreed.
God shall give thee great rejoicing, after many anxious days,
And thine everlasting anthems shall declare thy Master's praise.

GARIN SMITH SE

JT'S VERY COLD!

HIS is what many of you said last winter; and what we all often say even in spring time, when we get the biting east wind. What then must it be in Greenland, where the cold lasts all the year round ? Surely they must have hearts very warm with Christian love, who are willing to go and live and labour among the fur-clad inhabitants of Labrador, in order to make known to them the way of salvation.

Labrador is part of the mainland of North America, but Greenland is separated from the Continent, and stretches away towards the North Pole. The climate is very severe-cold, cold, very cold-for even in the short season they call summer, there is often frost, and sometimes snow. It is very cold, although the sun shines with little interruption all through the day and night! The summer is too short to ripen corn, and there are no trees. In the long and terribly cold winter, the sun shines only for an hour or two daily; but the reflection from the bright snow, the moon, stars, and "northern lights," enable Greenlanders to pursue their hunting and fishing, so as to live.

The people are short and stout, with flat, tawny faces, small eyes, and long black hair. In summer time they live in tents made of sealskin; in winter, they shelter themselves in huts, partly hollowed out of the earth, and partly built of stones and sods. These have no windows, but are lighted and warmed by oil lamps, which also serve for cooking. The dirt and closeness of these huts are very disagreeable.

To these poor people the Moravian missionaries have gone, and found a way to their hearts. They have heard of Jesus, and believed on His name. Their only surprise being that those who had this good news to deliver had not brought it to them sooner. At New Herrnhy't, the principal station, there is a Mission printing office, where a magazine, and various books, illustrate with pictures, are printed; and the Word of God is being widely circulated. Let us pray for a

blessing on the labours of these devoted Christian brethren and their good wives, and that the poor inhabitants of the ice-bound region may find the Gospel to be to them as a cordial to warm and cheer their hearts.

H dear! we have got to write an exercise,
and such a subject Miss Williams has
given us!" so said my wide-awake
little niece, Bessie.

"What is your subject?" I asked.
"I will try."

about that?"

What can I write

"What can you write? Why, what can you not write ?