consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie home. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the "giver" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the remembrance of what our pennies wrought. We have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the practice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now habitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African lad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means, such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a missionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and perhaps for two months. Let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming obstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which they belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the children for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings. Do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by all means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let it not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian attitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it is the _giving up_ which makes us the Lord's disciples. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883. * * * * * MAINE, $425.02. Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. $250.95 Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Dakota M._ 1.56 Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First Parish, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00 Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 7.20 37.20 Hiram. ----, _for Selma, Ala._ 1.75 Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17 61.17 Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ Winthrop. Cong. Ch. 16.00 Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.39 York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.