Sixty Years in the Harvest Field is the title of a biographical sketch of Havilah Mowry, Jr., published by A. S. Barnes & Co. The book contains 360 pages, and is valuable by way of suggestion as to how laymen may employ their leisure even in the humble walks of life in bringing sinners to Christ. Mr. Mowry, after working as a blacksmith for a series of years in Connecticut, entered upon service as city missionary at Brooklyn, N.Y., where he labored for many years with marked success. The book is worthy of a place in Sunday-school libraries, and fitted to promote evangelistic work.
A GIFT BY A BOHEMIAN BOY.
We publish below a letter from Dr. Alden, Secretary of the American Board, to District Secretary Woodworth, of Boston.
It is a touching fact that a boy in that far-off land should remember the black children of our own country. It shows how strangely the impulse of Christian sympathy strikes from land to land, and suggests the propriety of making this humble gift of the utmost value to him that gives and those who receive. We, therefore, propose, as a simple method of reaching that object, that any person or Sunday-school sending us $10 for the purpose shall receive one of these pieces of money. The donors to this object will receive the pieces in the order of application. If more gifts than the ten are forwarded, we will return them to the donors or appropriate them by permission to the colored children of the South.
“Rev. C. L. Woodworth, D.D.—My dear brother: I take great pleasure in committing to your trust the inclosed pieces of money, ten pieces in all, each of them the value of ten kreutzers, making 100 kreutzers in all, or probably about half a dollar of our currency. It is the gift of a boy in Prague, Austria, whose name is Bohumil Burda. The name ‘Bohumil’ is the same in signification as the ordinary name Theophilus, that is to say, ‘a friend of God.’ This boy placed the money in my hands when Dr. Clark and I were at Prague, saying that he wished it to be given to the ‘black children of America.’ I give you the exact coins which he had laid up after the self-sacrifices of several months, in his warm spirit of Christian benevolence, and I commit them to you as a sacred trust, assured that you will know how to multiply them, and how to use them in such a way as will be not only for the interest of the black children of America, but for the awakening of their interest in the needy and the promising children of Bohemia.
“With best wishes for the success of the Society which you now represent, I remain yours most fraternally,
“E. K. Alden, Sec. A. B. C. F. M.”