I should like to know where our modern unbelief is that is such a distress to us in all our efforts and in our inward life, when you reverently, and in the deep meaning of thought say, “As the Lord liveth”? Look at it. There are two schemes of the universe: one, the Christian scheme, with a belief in the living God as the original of all things—a personal being who is personally interested in his creatures, and who is desiring, since he has made him in his own image, to have man hold communion with himself, and who desires to have all men reconciled to himself from their sin and their misery and their unhappy life. There is another scheme where there is no God, or, what is the same thing to us, we do not know whether there is or not. And what is the idea of the universe that follows from that? Why, that it must move along as the blind force behind it shall urge it. Where is it going to land? The day is coming, brethren, when we will cry, “Oh for the doctrine of a predestinating God”—God with his eye on an end, and with an end to which he is turning all things and which shall be satisfactory to all the creatures that he has made in his image. Let us take a frank position here as a missionary society, and let it be known that we openly and avowedly, by word and deed, take the stand that we believe in God, and that we believe he is a living God, and in his name and for his sake and to effect his purpose we are going to the South, to the North, to the East, to the West, to gain trophies that shall be to the glory of his redeeming grace, since he has revealed to us, as we believe, the fact that he will complete these ends through our agency. RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1883. * * * * * MAINE, $391.80. Banger. Hammond St. Ch., 100; First Cong. Ch. 20 $120.00 Bethel. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 Brunswick. Mrs. S. C. F. Hammond, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. CAPT. REUBEN BLANCHARD L. M. 40.00 Hampden. Charles E. Hicks. 7.00 Lovell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 North Anson. “A Friend” 10.00 Portland. Second Parish Ch. and Soc. 86.30 South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis. 6.00 Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. to Const. REV. EDWARD E. BACON L. M. 46.50 ——————— $356.80 LEGACY.