"My Dear Brethren and Friends:--Through the goodness and mercy of God, I am thankful to arrive home and find my dear parents and friends all well.

The privilege of seeing your many faces and hearing your cheering words has brought me much edification and comfort. To the many dear brethren and friends Who have been so kind, and to our beloved ministers who have shown me such unmerited christian courtesy, I desire to return my warmest love and apprecia­tion, To find you so sound in the faith, and your hearts aglow with the love of God, and to see your lovely faces adorned With the image of Jesus, rejoices my soul. All this, dear brethren, with your loving words of encouragement, as well as the bitter grief and patient self-denial of Jesus, makes me joyfully willing sometimes to patiently endure whatever of hardness may come upon me. While more time has been spent in your midst than was intended, yet many of you I have not seen. I have neglected to comply with many kind invitations to visit some of you. This I deeply regret, but hope to see you when I have convenient time, and speak with you face to face if the Lord will. Oh, people of God, I dearly love you all. May God be with you in all your trials. Let the Lord's comforting promises cheer your hearts. I have had many trials and sore conflicts, but Jesus has stood by me and said, "My grace is sufficient: for thee." Sometimes I have thought, upon my return; I would remain at home. But, dear brethren, this evening I feel constrained to be more devoted to the service of my dear Saviour than ever before. O dear saints of God, pray for me that the Lord may lead and protect me! And let us all seek by prayer and obedience a deeper spir­ituality and a purer consecration to God.

Some of you have great trouble. Suffer me humbly to inquire, do we not by our own wrongs bring on or increase our trouble? Yes, I am sure we do, For what we sow, we "shall also reap."  Thus retaliation, whether by an unkind look, words, or deed, increases our trouble. Remember, "Anger stireth up strife: but a soft answer turneth away wrath" Brother, sister, I sym­pathize with you in your trouble, and desire your happiness. Then let me humbly plead with you as we would heal our trouble and be happy. Let us serve satan less and obey God more, Think how surely anger, drunkeness, profanity, envy, malice, or evil-speaking brings heart-broken trouble, and burns out or makes barren our finer sensibilities. And then consider the sweet joy and happiness that pure love, virtue and forgiveness, brings to the famished soul. The former brings bitter grief, the latter brings happy contentment. Please humbly consider these things, as you fear God, and desire His glory and your own good. Let me kindly beg each of you, ('as much as lieth in you'), to never once hint or mention the faults of others. Oh, for more heart penitence and humble love, that we may avoid fault-finding. My dear friends, let us be more generous, true and noble—more like Jesus, than to be so unkind, even to our enemies. Let each one confess and forsake his or her own faults, and forgive one another's imperfections for Christ's sake, "as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." O the sweet bliss there is bound up in the words, love and forgiveness.

May God bless you all, and enable us to know and do His will. May the Lord cause us to remember that we are not our own, but that we are bought with a price—even the precious blood of Jesus. Let us never forget that the extreme suffering and death of our dear Saviour, induces God to forgive us, So may the Holy Spirit fill our hearts with love to forgive one another for Christ's sake, as we hope to be forgiven.

Yours with tender love and hope of forgive­ness, through the blood of Jesus.

Sparta, Tex. M. D. DENMAN.