"'We have no continuing city here,' was the text which filled Mr. Thorn's mind, and it is one we hope more than ever to keep before us. This trial seems to have given the four of us deeper sympathy and interest together. So nearly entering eternity together, and yet saved, we trust, to render more devoted service to the Master, for having passed through this fiery trial. "I can hardly bear to think of all the sorrow you are feeling for us; but oh! let thanksgiving and praise be uppermost. It is the one thought that fills our minds. We are wonderful in health, no cold, and are as occupied as possible, looking after the children, and preparing for the new Home. Happily, Charlie the horse, the sleigh, and the buffalo robes are safe, and most useful we find them now. "I am so thankful that it will be nearly three weeks ere you know, and you must think of it as past and gone, and, if possible, just at first see the beginning of great good in making the work more known, and rousing the sympathies of others." What, Marchmont gone! That pleasant Home nought but a memory now; And yet, in humble thankfulness we bow,-- Father, Thy will be done. It was but lent: Thou wilt not that Thy children fix their heart On aught below: theirs is a better part-- A treasury unspent. Still are its memories dear! The maple shadows that around it lay, Stirred by the breezes from the silvery bay, Or bathed in moonlight clear-- How fair were they! Lovely when decked with earliest buds of spring, Loveliest when radiant autumn came to fling A glory on each spray. Oh home of praise and prayer! Where glad sweet voices raised the morning hymn, Pleaded for blessing in the twilight dim, Or thrilled the midnight air. Can we forget The meetings and the partings we have known? The welcome glad, the farewell's sadder tone-- Ah, we remember yet. We were not there When thro' its halls the fierce destroyer swept; But God was watching, while our dear ones slept-- Safe were they in His care. All safe with Him; Yes, for our Robbie "sings for Jesus" now In sweeter tones, with far more sunny brow, And eyes no tear's can dim. They wait His word-- Stanley and Robbie side by side--and we Caught up together with them soon shall be For ever with the Lord. S. R. GELDARD. All former kindness was as nothing compared to that now received, as will be seen by the following from Miss Bilbrough:-- "BELLEVILLE, _February 2, 1872_. "I know that many many prayers are now being offered for us, and that the Lord is answering them every minute, giving us sustaining grace and wisdom, and help as to the future. I knew it would be five weeks before I could hear from you, and I could trust that all we might arrange here would meet your approval, as it has generally done.