The old man having asked C. how he came to visit them, he replied he didn't know, but supposed God had sent him, as he had awoke and couldn't again sleep on account of thought of him. The incident made a serious and lasting impression on young C's mind. In the morning, as C. was returning home, he came by his father's house; his mother, espying his pail, wished to know where he had been. He replied, "To feed the hungry." His father spreading the incident, the neighbors all turned out and brought in enough provision to last them during several weeks, the old man being greatly loved and respected by his community, on account of his sterling Christian life and character. Mr. Joseph Clason is still living, now seventy-five years of age, in Bazine, Ness county, Kansas. THAT BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT. HOW THE LORD USED IT. A lady and gentleman were walking up Madison avenue, New York City, from church, when incidentally the lady said, "We are trying to get up Christmas decorations and entertainment for our Mission School." "_Well, put my name down for anything you like_," and then came into his mind a certain sum to give. A day passed on, it seemed forgotten; but a note from the lady reminded him of his promise, and he responded, giving the exact sum originally thought of, $25. Notice, now, the most singular disposition of it, which, by the hand of Providence, was made to go on its circuitous way to meet those who needed it most. The next Sabbath, the lady and gentleman again meeting each other, she said, "Your gift was too large. I cannot take so much from you. I shall give you back part." "But I won't take it." "Well, you must. I can't keep it." It resulted in the lady taking $15 from her muff and forcing it back into the gentleman's hand. The gentleman felt badly. "_I intended this for the Lord, and now it is refused. It is the first time I ever heard that money ever given to a Sunday school was not wanted. I meant the whole for the. Lord_. If she don't want it and wont keep it, I will give the rest away. _It does not belong to me_." Before night he had enclosed it in a letter and sent it out of the city to an invalid as a _Christmas present_. He had occasion not long after to visit the invalid, and was fairly astonished at the extraordinary circumstances connected with its use; and this is his story, told in his letter to the lady who returned the $15.