The Worthy Son of a Worthy Father

The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, son of a great man dead, should coon be among us. He is coining from the other side of the world to occupy the Tab9rnacle pulpit, and he brings with him a splendid record of evangelistic work successfully wrought, despite great physical weakness and sore domestic troubles. He visited New Zea land in 1881 on an evangelistic tour, and for. some months he officiated at .the Baptist Tabernacle in Auckland. When the pastorate became vacant he was unani mously invited to the post, which he suc cessfully filled for eight years. The severe illneßa of his wife r and the death of his only

child, prostrated him so completely that in the interests ot the church, and for his own personal good, he felt called upon to resign. Though sore stricken he worked manfully on. As evangelist of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, he has visited nearly all the BaptsC Churches in the colony, and his efforts have been wonderfully successful. He hopes to be in England in time to par ticipate in the Spurgeon memorial week, commencing Juno 19, the anniversary of Mr Spurgeon's birthday. He will then meet Dr. Pierson, who ha^ postponed' his de parture for America in order to bo present on this occaaion. The Bulgarian Ruler Has Come to Town. When queens have boen known to wish themselves milkmaids, and when powerful kings at) the height of their c;lory have stepped out from the fierce light which beats about a throoe to seek the restful,

shade of the cloister, we cannot wonder that the proverb which says, 'Uneasy' lies the head which wears a crown,' should have been worn threadbare with constant re petition. The quotation is as apt to-day as it would have been in the days of Saul, first king of Israel. It is, perhaps, bub a small consolation to Prince Ferdinand to know that to none can it apply more aptly than to the Czar of all the Russias, who would fain take Bulgaria beneath his Imperial protection, and cast over the country the heavy shadow of his autocratic rule. Ferdinand, who is a Prince of Saxe-Coburg, was elected to the throne of Bulgaria when Prince Alex ander abdicated, owing to the hopelessness of his situation. Prince Ferdinand has been more successful. 