American messenger . forbearance, love and self-denial to visitthese people. In one home I had a long conversationwith a Roman Catholic to whom I read fromthe Scriptures. She confessed that sheknew little of the Bible. In the hilly country at Mountaindale I vis-ited a family whose seventeen-year-old boy wasvery ill with heart disease. I prayed with the boy, for which the familywas very grateful. During this month I distributed Christianliterature in thirteen different languages. In Missouri Rev. J. H. Holland, a missionary colporter ofthe American Tract Society, whose headquar-ters have been a
American messenger . forbearance, love and self-denial to visitthese people. In one home I had a long conversationwith a Roman Catholic to whom I read fromthe Scriptures. She confessed that sheknew little of the Bible. In the hilly country at Mountaindale I vis-ited a family whose seventeen-year-old boy wasvery ill with heart disease. I prayed with the boy, for which the familywas very grateful. During this month I distributed Christianliterature in thirteen different languages. In Missouri Rev. J. H. Holland, a missionary colporter ofthe American Tract Society, whose headquar-ters have been at Struther, Mo., writes: This report closes the record of anothercolportage year. I hope that it has been oneof the best years of work for Christ in the his-tory of the Society. I have not made many public addresses, butI have done a great deal of personal work inmy house-to-house visitation. Many who werestrangers to grace have freely talked about theWay of Life, and I have tried to point them tothe Cross of A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN PORTO RICO. I have found a great many homes destituteof the Bible and of religious books. I amthankful to the dear old Society that by meansof its grants and the low prices at which itfurnishes Bibles and good books that I havebeen able to supply many destitute families. Inone family consisting of father, mother andsix children, I found no Bible and scarcely any-thing else in their little two-room house. Thefloor was bare and everything bespoke gave them the Good News in Story andSong. May Gods richest blessing rest on theSociety and all its work. •s * * Among Many Nationalities Mr. John Martinco, who has been engagedfor many years in the work of circulatingChristian literature, writes: This is the fourteenth year of my work asa missionary colporter of the American TractSociety. Most of my time recently has been spentin Pittsburgh and vicinity. Altogether I havecanvassed over seventy-five towns and people I have me
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