PERSEVERANCE ILLUSTRATED.—Rev. Mr. Scott a Baptist minister, in addressing the Wesleyan Missionary Society at its late aniversary in London related the following incident: "In Scotland I was attending a missionary meeting, and you know in Scotland it is the fashion to give money at the door coming in or going out. Going away from the meeting, a poor servant came and she dropped in a sovereign. The deacon standing there said, 'I am sure you can't afford to give that.' 'O! yes I can.' 'You will have to go without clothes.' 'O! no, I shan't.' 'Do take it back,' he said. She replied, 'I must give it.' The deacon then said, 'Take it home to night and if after thinking of it during the night you choose to give it, you can send it. The next morning I sat at breakfast, and there was a little note came, and it contained two sovereigns. The good deacon said, 'You wont take it?' I said, 'Of course I shall, for if I send it back she will send four next time.'"