THIS, says Professor Phelps of Andover, is one of the great principles of God's working in the affairs of his kingdom. He works with minorities who are working for him. "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's." Go out against them. The Lord will be with you. The history of the church is full of illustrations of this law of divine procedure. Dip into it anywhere, and you come upon this divine strategy. Napoleon thought that he knew the world well. He had studied the history of great empires, but he said it was an inexplicable mystery to him that Christianity, beginning as it did with a few fishermen of the feeblest nation then on the globe, should in his time have risen to be so much more mighty than his own conquests, which had almost all the armies of Europe to back them. It was God's way of working with minorities who are working for him. When the church became corrupt, and needed reform, the same thing was repeated. A few earnest men who were hunted like wild beasts, in a few years shook the world. The battle was not theirs, but God's. An old saying of the German Reformers, which a modern reformer has untruthfully claimed as his own, was, "One, with God on his side, is a majority." On a certain occasion the Lord encouraged his people with these words: "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's." 2 Chron. 20:15. This was the favorite text of Sir Fowell Buxton. He once wrote to his daughter that she would find his Bible opening of itself to the place where this passage occurs. This text it was which gave him courage to move in the British Parliament for the emancipation of slaves throughout the British Empire. When he entered on that conflict he stood almost alone; when this bill was first read in Parliament it was received with shouts of derisive laughter. But he bethought him of this text, and he began his speech, saying:— "Mr. Speaker, the reading of this bill is the beginning of a movement which will surely end in the abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions." The old Hebrew prophet never said a truer word. Sir Fowell knew it, for the battle was not his, but God's. The same phenomenon was witnessed in the first attempt to establish American missions among the heathen. When one of the early meetings of the American Board was held at Bradford, Mass., less than twenty persons were in attendance, and they were hooted at by boys on the plaza of the hotel where they were in session. Barely sixty-five years have passed, and at a recent meeting of that Board in Providence, five thousand strangers from abroad were present, and two churches were filled with eager friends. When the first American missionaries reached India, the English Government refused them a landing. "Go back," was the imperious order; "Go back, in the ship in which you came." In the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, when it was first proposed to send the gospel to the heathen, reverend clergymen declared against the fanatical scheme. They said that "the heathen were a contented and happy people, and that it was no business of Scottish Christians to disturb them." And this, in the face of our Lord's express command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Not a century has passed since that time, yet now all Christendom rings with congratulation over the achievement of Christian missions; and no other class of men is so reverently canonized in the affections of the church as her missionaries to the heathen world. This is the fruit of God's working with minorities who were working for him.—The Presbyterian.