of the Spirit of the Lord.' It is noteworthy that his father, the priest, received that New Testament from a colporteur."

When writing in his diary of one of his visits to the Friends' meeting, Isaac Sharp says: "Dr. Giragoshian sat beside me, and, when the time came for it, was my able interpreter, 'in the life,' so it felt to me, and I was thankful for it. 'Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.' This was the rejoicing expectancy of old when the children of Israel went three times a year to the city of the great King for worship and thanksgiving. Shall our expectancy be less concerning the heavenly Jerusalem, the everlasting dwelling place of the King of kings? Shall we not rather so walk before Him day by day that we may look forward in expectant faith and say of the holy city, in all lowliness, yet triumphantly, 'Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem'?”

When visiting "Robert College," in an address to the students, he said: "It is a good thing for all of us to begin the day with God. But if you and I have begun this day with God, it was before we came together here. It is good to begin the day with God, before Satan has time to enter in as he seeks to do, and to interpose between us and Christ. The command and promise are often found together in Scripture, 'Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.'"

In a letter to a nephew, some ten days later, he says: "A few days ago I had a terrific fall. Dr. Dobrashian looks at it as a remarkable escape without a broken limb. In coming down the stairs, which are winding, five steps from the floor I heeled over and came with a heavy thud, head first, on the last step, probably, and then rolled forward on to the floor. My forehead was grazed, a skindeep cut on the knee, and my hand was severely bruised and became swollen. There was also a strain."

Dr. Appleton now returned home, and Dr. Dixon soon arrived to accompany Isaac Sharp to India and Japan.

In his next letter, again alluding to his fall, he says: "I have wonderfully recovered, and there is nothing to prevent my friend Dr. Dixon and myself setting out to-morrow and steaming away for Port Said, en route for Bombay."

In his diary, he says: "Dr. Giragoshian has been my able interpreter from week to week. I alluded to the Syrian flock and the inability to get there. He expressed his belief that my detention here was providential. He could not explain it altogether, but signified that some of their best members had been very desirous that someone would come to tarry awhile with them."

To a nephew he writes: "I am thankful to be in good. case. It is my joy and strength and solace to remember, 'The Lord reigneth and He is over all, so undaunted and hopeful I venture on and Trust!'"

"Trust" meant so much to him, that he frequently spelt the word with a capital "T."

"Thrice blest is he to whom is given

The instinct that can tell

That God is on the field when He

Is most invisible."

He does not forget to ask his nephew to get a Noah's ark to send to the children of the home where he had been a guest at Constantinople.

Their mother, G. M. Dobrashian, writes: "We felt it a great privilege having him with us so long. We were much needing cheer and comfort in many ways just then, and he was a most kind sympathiser. It was specially pleasant to me having him, as he knew and had travelled with my grandfather, Edwin O. Tregelles, and one day after going with me and the children to see their grandfather Dobrashian, he wrote in my album a little account of how and when and where he met the four generations, which will be very interesting to the children when they are grown older. Almost every evening he enjoyed a

* Faber.

Turkish bath, and he would come home

about ten o'clock so bright and up to anything, and used to ask Dr. Dobrashian if he was ready for a three or four-mile walk, and during supper he would tell stories of his travels and visits to other lands, and often used to say how much he thought of woman and woman's work, and how highly he estimated womanhood."

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CHAPTER XIV.

'Teach me to do THY will, O God.' A whole life can be built up on that one vertebral column, and then when all is over, 'he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." "-Professor Drummond.

Nothing can make life pleasant but some kind of acquiescence in the present hour, from the consciousness that we are in it according to the order of God, either doing or suffering His will, or, at least, not acting contrary to it."-Thomas Adam.

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N December 10th, 1891, Isaac Sharp writes: "It was a wonderful passage from Constantinople to Alexandria, lake-like and beautiful exceedingly. The Red Sea has been aptly described or likened to a lapis lazuli blue. I had been feeling remarkably well and very happy, but soon after embarking on board. the Anchor Line Steamer Arabic, I became seriously ill, of which I do not mean to say much, but leave my dear friend Dr. Dixon to give his medical version of it. But I may say, that, during the eleven or twelve days and nights in my horizontal position - the cabin being between 80° and 90° plus hot fomentations night and day-I was graciously enabled to hold the fort with a flying banner, No surrender, and I do not think the dear doctor saw much trace of the proverbial white feather. Blood temperature over 103° for a short time, pulse eighty, and sometimes feeble, appetite nil. In the providence of our Heavenly Father we were able to secure the cabin of

the stewardess, just then vacated by two ladies who landed at Port Said. It was a sudden return of the Paris

attack."

From a Bombay paper we quote the following account of a meeting: "A very pleasant gathering was held on Tuesday evening on the premises of The Bombay Guardian, to meet Isaac Sharp, a venerable minister of the Society of Friends, and his travelling companion Dr. Dixon. After a social hour Mr. M. Mody took the chair. Isaac Sharp gave an account of the Lord's leadings with respect to this journey, and of his prospect of further service, with some interesting incidents of providential leading in connection with the Moravian Mission in Greenland. He desired to impress upon those present the deep importance of so dwelling in the love of CHRIST as to hear His guiding voice constraining or restraining in all the affairs of life."

On the last day of 1891 Isaac Sharp writes: "I am greatly blessed in the assured belief of being in the lot of the Lord's appointment. But at home or from home, the saying is true, 'we walk by faith and not by sight.' In this wonderful India, the way and work of Satan are largely manifest, and so are the way and work of the Lord. Dr. Dixon has been a great comfort to me, and a valuable fellow-labourer."

From a Calcutta paper, The Indian Witness, we learn that, "Among the young men at the Missionary Conference was a Missionary of the Society of Friends, who is above. eighty-five years of age. This gentleman having visited extensively among missions in different parts of the world, is at present passing through India. Though acknowledging to eighty-five years, his personal appearance is not more venerable than some men at fifty-eight, and when he stood up to speak it was evident that the stiffness of age had reached to neither tongue, nor brain, nor heart."

With respect to the visit to Sehore, Charles D. Terrell of the Friends' Foreign Mission wrote: "We have very much enjoyed the visit of Isaac Sharp and Dr. Dixon, and