No pupil was more constant in attendance than our protégé, and with rapid strides he passed the boys of his age, learning well whatever he was permitted to study, and in four years from the time he learned his first word on the piazza, we left him doing examples in higher mathematics, before a large audience of parents and friends of education, who were delighted at his progress. Many of our pupils had come to the Good Shepherd, and with delight told of the joy in following their newly-found Saviour; but Joe was so engrossed with study, nothing seemed to move him, and we left him, a little saddened that he was, as he expressed it, "yet in the outstanding army."
This summer, while the yellow fever was prevailing, there came a postal from Joe, saying he had found Jesus, and taken Him for the captain of his salvation; and now he loved everybody, and his teachers better than ever, and amidst all the fears about the fever he never was afraid; he was well, though his father and mother were both sick; but he didn't have any fears for this world or the next.
RECEIPTS
FOR DECEMBER, 1878.
| MAINE, $531.65. | |
| Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. $200; CentralCh. Sab. Sch. $20; First Cong. Ch. $4 | $224.00 |
| Bath. T. E. | 0.50 |
| Bethel. Ladies of First Cong. Ch. $10; Mrs.E. C. C. 50c. | 10.50 |
| Blanchard. Daniel Blanchard | 5.00 |
| Blue Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 18.00 |
| Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 18.00 |
| Farmington. " A Friend" | 1.00 |
| Hampden. Mrs. R. S. Curtis, $4; Chas.Hicks, $2 | 6.00 |
| Machias. "Ladies' Prayer Meeting," $5;E. G. L. and Mrs. W. C. H. $1 | 6.00 |
| Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. $50; Rev. B. T. $1 | 51.00 |
| Portland. State St. Cong. Ch., to const.Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hincks and Miss CarolineS. Conant L. M.'s | 100.00 |
| Portland. Ladies of Bethel Ch. $16.15, forTalladega C., and bbl. of C; Mrs. L. D., 50c. | 16.65 |
| South Freeport. Horatio Isley, $3; Rev. H.I., 50c. | 3.50 |
| Standish. Cong. Ch. | 2.50 |
| Thomaston. Cong. Ch. $1; Mrs. J. H. $1 | 2.00 |
| Topsham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 8.00 |
| Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25;First Cong. Ch. and individuals, $7 | 32.00 |
| Winslow. Cong. Ch. | 21.00 |
| Winthrop. I. N. M. | 1.00 |
| Woolwich. Cong. Ch. | 13.00 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE, $1,974.11. | |
| Amherst. Estate of Eliza Kenney, by Geo.Kenney, Ex. | 1,515.60 |
| Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| Auburn. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Bristol. H. T. A. | 0.50 |
| Colebrook. Cong. Sab. Soc. | 4.00 |
| Concord. First Cong Ch. and Soc. | 46.08 |
| Cornish Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.65 |
| Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25; andSab. Sch. $41 | 66.00 |
| Exeter. "A Friend," for Memorial Inst.,Wilmington, N. C., and to const AbrahamA. Towle, Miss Mary Gordon and SidneyE. Mcintire L. M.'s | 100.00 |
| Exeter. M. E. S. | 1.00 |
| Francestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25; Dea.M. B. Fisher, $5; C. B. R., 50c. | 30.50 |
| Hampstead. Cong. Ch. | 15.85 |
| Hancock. Mrs. Mary H. Washburn | 5.00 |
| Hanover Centre. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Hopkinton. D. S. | 0.60 |
| Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $65.33; ElishaRand, $5; S. P. Cook, $2;—— 50c. | 72.83 |
| Kensington. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 2.00 |
| Marlborough. Ladies, b. of C. and $2. forFreight | 2.00 |
| Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 17.86 |
| New Ipswich. J. W. C. | 0.50 |
| Stratham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 24.36 |
| Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| Troy. M. W. Wheeler | 2.50 |
| West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17.28;O. S. M. and Dea. H. F. $1 | 18.28 |
| VERMONT, $624.92. | |
| Bradford. R. F. | 0.50 |
| Brandon. Cong. Ch. | 23.17 |
| Burlington. J. P. | 0.50 |
| Cabot. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 11.40 |
| Cambridge. Madison Safford | 89.88 |
| Cambridge. Mrs. Mary Waterhouse, $5;John Kinsley, $5; Jesse Mudgett, $3 | 13.00 |
| Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 27.00 |
| East Hardwick. Ladies, by J. D. Bell | 2.25 |
| Essex. Mrs. L. C. B. | 1.00 |
| Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 107.17 |
| Jericho Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.05 |
| Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 13.50 |
| Ludlow. Mrs. L. H. C. | 1.00 |
| Lunenburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $8; Mrs.S. S. J. 50c. | 8.50 |
| Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.Rev. Albert C. Reed L. M. | 50.50 |
| North Ferrisburgh. Estate of SylviaDean, by J. M. and W. L. Dean, Executors | 18.00 |
| North Thetford. Mrs. E. G. Baxter | 2.00 |
| Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 36.43 |
| Peru. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 11.33 |
| Pittsford. Mrs. N. P. Humphrey | 10.00 |
| Pomfret. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.00 |
| Richmond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 14.37 |
| Roxbory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 12.55 |
| Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch. | 95.06 |
| Saxton's River. Mrs. A. C. | 1.00 |
| Shelburn. James D. Duncan, bal. to const.Fanny E. Duncan L. M. | 5.00 |
| South Royalston. Rev. S. K. B. P. $1; Dea.A. S. P. $1 | 2.00 |
| Townshend. Mrs. Annie Rice | 5.00 |
| Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $13.71; Mrs.A. B. Fish. $5; S. H. R. $1 | 19.71 |
| Weathersfield Centre. Mrs. E. Chamberlin | 5.00 |
| Westminster. Cong. Ch. | 9.05 |