in a storm, or come closer each to its fellow when they hear the sound of the wolf. Poor defenceless creatures as they were, they yet loved to come together, and would die together if need were. They felt that nothing made them so happy, nothing so emboldened them, nothing so strengthened them to bear their daily difficulties as to draw near to God in common supplication. Beloved, let every church learn the value of its prayer-meetings in its dark hour. When the pastor is dead, and when it has been