Miscellany

with contributions from Charles H. Fowler

The great need to-day is the application of the Gospel plan of salvation to the daily lives of the people. There is so much ecclesiastical machinery, so much to do generally, that we are in danger of merging our spirituality into morality, and then patting ourselves complacently on the back and saying, "Very good; very good."

No amount of morality will make religion.

Oh, that we could live the Christ-life ! That is the need—the supreme need—of the hour. As I travel up and down the land and come into touch with thousands of men and women, I realize more every day that the thing that will make the Church progress in the next century is no methods of church, or plans for social reform; but more of Christ in the individual heart. The inflamed human heart is the only motive force that will drive the Church onward to victory.

Charles H. Fowler.
In The Christian Guardian.

Cured of Leprosy.

An anniversary meeting for the Sunday School was held at Grace M. E. Church on Oneida Street, recently. The attendance was good and the addresses delivered were the most profitable listened to in many days.

Mrs. Miller's address was on the work of Miss Mary Reed, missionary among the lepers of India, whose miraculous cure from leprosy has caused widespread comment. In telling of the career of this remarkable worker, Mrs. Miller stated that in 1884 Miss Reed was sent to India by the Cincinnati branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, and reached her field in November of that year. The following January she was appointed to the Zenana work, or work among women, in Cawnpore.

After four years of successful work she was sent to the girls' boarding schools at Gonda and remained there a year, when in January, 1890, she returned home to regain her strength. While at her home in Ohio she found that she was a leper, and on learning the awful truth she went to the mountain retreat in India for lepers at Pithoragarh.

Here while at work among the lepers she was assured by God that she would be healed, and from that time, in the fall of 1892, she became better. She is well now. After eight years of exile she was in attendance at the North India conference at Lucknow held recently. Another favor which God has shown her is that any of the sick whom she attends at the mountain retreat are converted to the Christian faith. She goes among the lepers, dressing their sores and caring for them without fear.

Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press.

Alleged Fatal Vaccination.

The city was sued for three thousand dollars damages in the Superior Court yesterday for the death of William Fuller, son of Benjamin Fuller, from the alleged effects of vaccination. The declaration states that the boy was vaccinated March 13, by a physician of the health department, without the knowledge or consent of his father. It is alleged the boy died because the vaccination was unskilfully performed. The boy's father brought the suit, through Hardcastle & Wynn, attorneys.

Baltimore (Md.) Sun.

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