missionary meetings every two or three weeks, so

they have put me off a little longer. I had a good

deal on my mind through reading the Citizen. I

opened my bible at the forty-first chapter of Isaiah

and at the sixth and seventh verses. There I read

the following words: 'They helped everyone his

neighbor, and every one said to his brother, be of

good courage; so the carpenter encouraged the

goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer

him that smote the anvil, saying, it is ready for the