A CHRISTIAN lady, who was engaged in work for the poor and degraded, was once spoken to by one who was well acquainted with both the worker and those whom she sought to reach, and remonstrated with for going among such a class of people. 'It does seem wonderful to me that you can do such work,' her friend said. 'You can sit beside these people, and talk with them in a way that I do not think you would do if you knew all about them, just what they are, and from what place they come.' Her answer was, 'Well, I suppose they are dreadful people; but if the Lord Jesus were now on earth, are they not the very sort of people that he would strive to reach? And am I better than my Master? Would he feel himself too good to go among them?' A poor, illiterate person, who stood listening to this conversation, said with great earnestness and simplicity, 'Why I always thought that was what Christians were for.' The objector was silenced, and what wonder? Is not that what Christians are for? If not, then in the name of all that is good what are they for? —Sel. It is rarely that an applicant for favor in any sphere does not ask the intercession or mediation of some one who is supposed to have favor with the one in power, and to have sympathy with the one in need. This longing of the soul is of the very nature, and it is provided for in grace. 'There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;' and that 'man Christ Jesus' said emphatically, 'No man cometh unto the Father but by me.' Only as we seek and have the intercession of Jesus in our personal behalf, have we any well-grounded hope of forgiveness from God; but Jesus 'is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.' —Sel. A LITTLE girl once explained the golden rule to her sister after this fashion: 'It means that you must do everything that I want you to do, and you mustn't do anything that I don't want you to.' And that is precisely the explanation that many older people give.