CHAPTEE  XV.
 

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I. No devout or thoughtful mind can review the
history which has been  given, without being irresis¬
tibly led to the conclusion, expressed by the words of
the Psalmist upon a difi'erent occasion : " This is the '
Loed's doing ; it is maijvellous in cue eyes."

It is easy to trace the hand of Providence in. every
step of the course we have narrated. The ap¬
pointment of the Missionary just at the period when
it was made, the .up.springing in his mind of the con¬
ception of a business men's prayer meeting, its pe¬
culiar features, the state of the times prompting men
to pray, the absence of any unusual attractions, the
extraordinary rapidity with which mid-day meetings
for prayer were multiplied; all these indicate the
immediate agency of the Most High. The Lord
alone was exalted in that day. There is no room for
human merit to insinuate itself.

A few men, by no means eminent for infiuence or