EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
I will tell you what the Woman's page has done for me. I have been a great slave to novel-reading. I had tried to live a Christian life while continuing in this practice, but did not succeed as well as I desired. I wondered why my Christian experience was not brighter. One day I picked up a REVIEW and turned to the woman's page, and the first thing my eye fell upon was a question asked by a sister who was having an experience similar to mine. After reading the answer that followed, I saw where all my trouble lay. I had asked God to take away my desire for reading such trash, but instead of co-operating with him, I was reading every paper that came into my hands. From that time I destroyed every such paper that I received, before I had an opportunity to read it; and I have received a greater blessing than ever before in my life. We have been on our farm five years, and, my Seventh-day Adventist sisters excepted, only one of my neighbors has been in my house. They do not seem to wish to be at all friendly, and so it is hard for me to hold up the standard of God's holy truth. But I will do all I can, with God's help; and if publications are sent me, I will scatter them over the country as much as I can. If there is no other way, I will send each one a package of reading-matter through the mail. We give the preceding extract because we believe the suggestion concerning reading-matter is a good one, and hope it will be noted by other sisters who are isolated by farm life.