Brother Simon to Christ

And these may now be seen every day walking abroad in the streets of this great city, living, breathing men; men who, like all those that have been quickened and made alive, and that will live for ever, are calling on every side to their neighbors and kindred, “ Awake, thou that slecpest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” There is certainly a great deal of life and activity among them. Look abroad in almost any direction, and you will see some Andrew bringing his brother Simon to Christ; or some Philip persuading his friend Nathanael to come; or, peradventure, over the very house-tops, and “ through the tiling,” and greatest difficulties, you will see “ one sick of the palsy,” who is “ borne of four.” Blessed sight! who would not be a missionary to see such “ visions bright”? But truly “this is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous In our eyes.”

I close this communication with a remark, which I recently made to our native brethren, whom, as you know,. I am accustomed to meet alone by themselves every Tuesday morning, “ If this work of God go forward in the same proportion for ten years to come, as it has gone for ten years past, there will be no further occasion for any of us to remain here, unless it be to assist you in bringing to a knowledge of these same precious saving doctrines of the Gospel the Greeks and Jews and others around you.”

But, dear brother, reverses are to be expected. And may you and we, and the churches at home, and all concerned, be prepared for them.

Yours most truly,

AY. GOODELL.

Anderson to the East

In the spring of 184-1 Mr. Goodell experienced a great trial in the recall of his beloved friend and brother, Rev. Daniel Temple, with whom he had been on terms of intimate fellowship almost from boyhood. They had occupied the same room in the academy, in college, and in the Theo-logical Seminary for the space of nine years, and although separated in their missionary life in the East, Mr. Temple being stationed at Smyrna, they had exchanged letters and interchanged their most sacred sentiments every week since coming to the Orient. The trial was the more severe because the giving up of the missionary work was so painful to Mr. Temple. One of the results of the visit of Dr. Anderson to the East was the discontinuance of the mission to the Greeks, for whom Mr. Temple had been exclusively laboring; and as the Board concurred with him in the opinion that he was too far advanced in years to commence the acquisition of a new language and enter upon an entirely new mission, he reluctantly decided to return to the United States. Before he left, Mr. Goodell wrote to him: —