A SHIP'S crew was famishing for water. For days they had been restricted to the very smallest allowance. Finally, when it seemed they would all perish, a vessel was seen in the distance, and at once they signaled to it for water. The reply came back, “Dip down where you are.” They could not understand this, and signaled again. The reply came as before. Knowing that the salt water of the ocean was unfit for drinking, they thought there must be some mistake, and once more signaled for the life-giving fluid. More slowly and carefully came back the signal, “Dip down where you are.” Knowing nothing else to do, they did dip down, and found pure, fresh water; for they were in the mouth of the great Amazon River, and did not know it. Brethren and sisters, have not we, like this ship's crew, looked too far away for our spiritual refreshing? Have we not overlooked the opportunities for service there are all around us? Ought not we to begin to-day to dip down where we are, by visiting our next-door neighbor, the family across the street, or the sick persons in the same block? May we not give to one a kind word, to another a paper or a tract, and to another a publication on some health topic? Then, as the Lord opens the way, let us hand out other reading-matter, accompanying it with a missionary visit, or with a Bible reading. By so doing we shall be greatly blessed, and instead of the bitter, strangling brine of the ocean which some expect, we shall find the sweet, sparkling, life-giving product of the hillside spring.