One other point only, briefly, in regard to this question of the demand that Christ makes on us. We must never establish a condition that he has not established; never set up a standard which he has not set up; but follow him and receive the blessing while we follow. It was the remark of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. Our fathers, a century ago, found this nation half slave and half free. It is now left a free nation. God grant it may become, by Christian effort, as good as it is free! In a dark day of our war when the armies were failing, and the hopes of the nation were placed in Lincoln and Lincoln lost hope, when our courage depended upon him and our flag seemed as if about to be rent by an unseen hand—when Lincoln said, “I see no hope”, for the rush of the armies seemed away from the South and up back to the North, Stanton uttered the words that gave courage to his heart: “Weary man, don’t you know that the churches of the North are everywhere praying for you?” And the weary look passed away from his face, and the smile came back to its wonted place. The children of Father Abraham need the prayers of the churches of Christ. * * * * * WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GIVING. BY REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D. In his sermon entitled “How to be a Christian in Trade,” a discourse which illustrates the wonderful combination of practical sagacity with spiritual insight, for which he was so remarkable, Dr. Bushnell says that “the great problem we have now on hand is the Christianizing of the money power of the world,” and again that “what we wait for, and are looking hopefully to see, is the consecration of the vast money power of the world to the work, and cause, and kingdom of Jesus Christ. For that day, when it comes, is the morning, so to speak, of the new creation. That tide-wave in the money power can as little be resisted when God brings it on as the tides of the sea; and like these also it will flow across the world in a day.” This witness is true, and it becomes us all, to pray and labor for the fulfilment of the prophecy that men shall come, “their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord our God.” But here the revival must begin in the Church itself. In former times we have had revivals with distinct characteristics. One was remarkable for the blessing which rested on preaching, another for the spirit of prayer which seemed to be poured out on the people generally; another for the interest that was evoked in the study of the Scriptures. What we have yet to see is a revival of which the chief distinguishing feature shall be liberal giving to the cause of the Lord Jesus, and when that comes it will be the prophecy of yet grander things for the promise “prove me now herewith if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it,” was made, not in connection with an exhortation to