waits to be conscripted, he will be in line for the trenches and nothing else. Herman says if he had such an offer, he would snap it up without hesitation, and that is the way I feel about it. It is altigether too bad that we are in such a predicament, but it seems that the nations are incapable of learning by experience and will have to suffer what they bring upon themselves by their evil doings. I am inclosing a few stamps which Pearl may be able to make use of. I received a letter to-day from Dr. Neudoerffer to who when he was here last summer I gave my manuscript on NEW TESTAMENT HANDBOOK with a view to its publication in India. He writes me that manuscript is now in the press and will be out in about a month from Aug. 22nd. He will thensend me 50 copies for my own use and disposal, will keep 30 copies for himself to use in his seminary, and will put the rest in stock to be drawn upon by himself and myself as the need may arise. The book is particularly for use in seminaries, but also sufficiently popular in style for general use. It will be about twice the size of my former book. The beauty about the whole thing is that it doesn't either me or Neudoerffer a cent, as he induced the Board of Foreign Missions to stand the cost of publication. So if I ca sell my fifty copies or more, I ought to make a little money out of it. This was indeed good news coming as it did to-day, our thirty-first wedding anniversay. I also received to-day notification of anniversary celebrations of two churches in my first parish in Nova Scotia, and I at once wrote them greetings to be read on those occasions. Robert left us on Monday afternoon and returned to his work in faraway Noranda. Botha Bonnie and I write to him regularly every week at different time, so that he gets two letters from home every week, which keep him informed and help to keep his spirits up. Arthur has preached every Sunday