A bright, manly little fellow in my church in Pyeng Yang had been a Christian only about a year when he succeeded in getting his mother to come to church with him. Soon after the mother decided to be a Christian, this boy became very sick and his mother was very angry at God about it. “See,” she said, “this is what I get for being a Christian.” He plead with her not to feel that way about it, and tried to get her to pray with him; but she refused, saying, “I will never pray again.” One day, just before he died, he held out his hands to her, saying, “Mother, come pray with me now,” but she turned her face away and sat down in a corner, and he began praying alone in Korean, “Hanale Kai sin, uri abage,” “Our Father who art in Heaven,” and, as he was praying, he died. The next day his poor mother came to our house and told my wife all about it and cried as if her heart would break because she had let him die without praying with him. I think God will let this boy know in some way in heaven that his mother did repent after he went away. (W. N. Blair, _The Foreign Post_, May, 1910.) TRAINING THE CHILDREN OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS In 1888, Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, in a meeting in London, gave a statement of his work as a missionary in the Hervey Islands since 1851. “He spoke of the former condition of the people, of their love of revenge and of their human sacrifices, of the bloody feuds that existed among them, of the rule, followed by all, of keeping alive only two children in the family, and of the whole aspect of their lives as something fearful; and stated that all this had been changed through the influence of Christianity. He remarked that to see a people who were once cannibals partaking of the Lord’s Supper has been most delightful. Looking around upon the assembly gathered for this purpose he had seen the bread administered by one to a man whose father that man had murdered, or the reverse. He stated that the work of evangelization in many of the South Pacific Islands had been done almost entirely by natives trained in the Avarua School; that hundreds of these natives have sacrificed their lives to carry the Gospel to their brethren, and that sixty of Mr. Gill’s own church have been killed while acting as missionaries.” (Alexander, “Islands of the Pacific,” p. 121. Am. Tract Soc.) INFLUENCE OF A PICTURE CARD