striving to put them down. To which class, dear reader, do you belong?

This warfare is foretold by the Lord's prophet.

You see, it is the dragon, or devil, that makes war on the commandments of God, and those who keep them, and the war is on. Which side of this controversy have you espoused?

A goodly number in that town are convinced that the commandments of the Lord ought to be obeyed; but few have the moral courage to do so.

A bright young lady, Miss Glennie Patterson, became very much interested on the Sabbath question. Of course, she would rather keep Sunday, if it were the true Sabbath; and she sent to the Methodist Book Concern for help, and they replied through their literary editor.

In his first reply he was in darkness as to which was the seventh day, and asked if it might not be our Wednesday. In his second letter he was sure that Sunday is the true seventh day. When she wrote him, and pointed out his glaring discrepancy, he replied that he had carried on the correspondence as far as he considered it prudent to do so.

Such a poor showing for Sunday by the literary editor of the great Methodist Book Concern, convinced her more than before that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord our God. May she ever have grace to live up to her convictions of truth.

I had an experience with a Latter-day preacher in Amor, Minn. He was preaching on spiritual gifts, and he showed by indisputable evidence that among their people wonderful cases of healing had been done by prayer and the laying on of hands, and he was proving by this that they were the true people of God. He was a powerful speaker, and I saw he was making a deep impression on the audience. I felt that I ought to do something to break the spell he was throwing over the people. He gave me liberty to speak, and I sanctioned his