This summer, while the yellow fever was prevailing, there came a postal from Joe, saying he had found Jesus, and taken Him for the captain of his salvation; and now he loved everybody, and his teachers better than ever, and amidst all the fears about the fever he never was afraid; he was well, though his father and mother were both sick; but he didn't have any fears for this world or the next. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1878. * * * * * MAINE, $531.65. Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. $200; Central Ch. Sab. Sch. $20; First Cong. Ch. $4 $224.00 Bath. T. E. 0.50 Bethel. Ladies of First Cong. Ch. $10; Mrs. E. C. C. 50c. 10.50 Blanchard. Daniel Blanchard 5.00 Blue Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 Farmington. "A Friend" 1.00 Hampden. Mrs. R. S. Curtis, $4; Chas. Hicks, $2 6.00 Machias. "Ladies' Prayer Meeting," $5; E. G. L. and Mrs. W. C. H. $1 6.00 Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. $50; Rev. B. T. $1 51.00 Portland. State St. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. ELIZABETH C. HINCKS and MISS CAROLINE S. CONANT L. M.'s 100.00 Portland. Ladies of Bethel Ch. $16.15, _for Talladega C._, and bbl. of C; Mrs. L. D., 50c. 16.65 South Freeport. Horatio Isley, $3; Rev. H. I., 50c. 3.50 Standish. Cong. Ch. 2.50 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. $1; Mrs. J. H. $1 2.00 Topsham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25; First Cong. Ch. and individuals, $7 32.00 Winslow. Cong. Ch. 21.00 Winthrop. I. N. M. 1.00 Woolwich. Cong. Ch. 13.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $1,974.11.