WHAT becomes of all the unanswered letters? Thousands of them find their way to the dead-letter office. Some never reach the person for whom they are intended because the postage is not paid; some fail because they are directed to the wrong office; some cannot be sent because the address is illegible, and some because the matter inclosed is unmailable. These float through the mails, are examined at different offices, marked “missent,” and finally they fall into the dead-letter office. They are opened and read, and, if valuable, are forwarded; if not, they are given to the flames. Such is the accuracy and skill of the postal officials that very few valuable letters ever fail of reaching their destination. Some prayers never reach God because they are not addressed to God’s office. They are directed to the audience. God’s office is not in our neighbor’s care, and if we direct our prayers to that point, they will certainly go to the dead-prayer office. Each of the reasons why letters go to the dead-letter office will hold good of unanswered prayers. But no really valuable prayer with a heart’s message in it ever fails of its destination, or goes unanswered.—Christian Advocate.