Many strangers to the hall and the Saints came trooping to me, eager to press my hand, leaving therein weighty metallic evidences of their appreciation of a God-helped "Mormon" missionary. I now had more money than when on the levee at New Orleans. How vividly I recall, even now, my gratitude, as on bended knees at my lodgings I thanked God for His wonderful interpositions in my behalf, and what joy I felt as I counted the metallic evidences of trust and answer to prayer. As soon as I could I visited home, from which I had been exiled for my faith. They scanned me well, and one member of the family, referring to our mode of traveling--without purse or scrip, wanted to know if I had come home to sponge on them. I replied "No!" and, putting my hand into my pocket, drew forth a sovereign. Pushing that towards them, I remarked, "That will pay my board bill while I stay. Our Elders do not sponge!" I was proud that I had good clothes and money. At the Sunday dinner the same acrimonious feelings were again exhibited. I arose from the table, sorrowed that years of absence had not softened their hearts towards me and the cause dearest to my heart, remarking that "This evening I will preach in the Theobald Road room, at 6-30." My brothers came to hear me, and here again God opened the sacred volume, showed me new beauties, gave me impassioned language to expound the scriptures, afforded me power to enchain the audience, and again to see strangers rush to give me money. My brothers laughed the laugh of unbelief, while strangers and Saints thanked God for the words heard, and gave me more money. I hope this brief and hurried but truthful narrative may inspire some young Saint, missionary or otherwise, to be honest and trust in God when out without purse or scrip. OVERCOMING DIFFIDENCE. By G. Q. C. DIFFERENCE IN PERSONS ABOUT SPEAKING IN PUBLIC--THE LORD WILLING TO HELP HIS SERVANTS TO OVERCOME TIMIDITY--EARLY EXPERIENCE IN PREACHING--A FEELING OF FEAR AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD NOT CONGENIAL--TIMIDITY CONQUERED. It is most interesting to listen at meetings to the different testimonies which the Latter-day Saints bear concerning the work of God. The experience of no two persons is exactly the same, and yet all are true. One is impressed with an evidence of the truth in one way and another in another way. So also it is with the experience of the Elders; the experience of each varies according to the constitution and temperament, the bent of mind and the circumstances which surround each one. We have met with a few men in our life who never seemed to know what it was to be timid in standing up before an audience. They always seemed to be perfectly self-possessed, and did not suffer in the least from fear; while we have known others who felt that it was impossible for them to stand on their feet and address an audience.