"How touching that is!" said one of the hotel ladies, and Mrs. Sims was seen to wipe her eyes with the pillow-slip she was seaming. "Mrs. Thurston," said Miss Fanny, who saw that a good start on a foreign missionary meeting had been made, and was not willing to let the opportunity be lost, "when you were in India did you meet many persons who were anxious to hear the gospel, or were they mainly indifferent?" In replying to this question Mrs. Thurston told many interesting things that had come under her observation, and this led to further questions from others, so they had quite a long talk on missionary work both in India and other countries. Finally one of the boarders asked, "Well, do you think the world ever will be converted to Christianity?" "I know it will," replied Mrs. Thurston; and she quoted, "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord; and all kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee." FANNY. "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God." DORA. "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." RUTH. "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." "Dora, Dora," said Miss Fanny, with an imperative little gesture, "'Jesus shall reign'"-- Miss Dora obediently began to sing, "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run," and was at once joined by the others. "Now, dear friends," said Mrs. Thurston, when the hymn was finished, "upon this, the only occasion we are all likely to be together, shall we not unite in asking God to hasten the coming of this glorious time, and ask for his blessing on our humble attempts to work in this cause?" Work was dropped and every head bowed, as Mrs. Thurston uttered fervent words of prayer that the Lord would fill all their hearts with love for missions, and that he would permit them to do something towards helping in the work. She prayed especially for the children who were engaged in missionary work, and asked that they might have grace given them to devote their whole lives to the service of God. "Well," said Mrs. Clarkson, as she was leaving, "this has been a right down pleasant meeting, and I think the last part was just about the best." CHAPTER XIX. THE GARDEN MISSIONARY MEETING. Two or three days afterwards Miss Fanny, with one of her young friends, came up to tell the farmhouse people that the box had gone. She said that Mr. Sims had given them a box, and had also kindly attended to sending it off. The day after the meeting, when Hiram went down to the postoffice, Marty and Evaline had each sent by him a book for the missionary children, and Miss Fanny said that this prompted some of the children at the hotel to send books.