HiA. — Have just returned from the theatre. Got
rid of all my tracts, . and got well laughed at for my
trouble. I may be deceived, but I feel almost certain
that I saw James Leonard enter the theatre with a
gaudily-dressed youug woman on his arm. I hope it
was not so. And yet why should I hope this ? He,
poor, fellow, like the rest of us, is in search of happiness.
Would that he knew where to find it ! But the strangest
occurrence of the evening is this : — A gentleman, it
appears, watched the process of tract distribution, and
heard the rough jibes of the people at my expense.
When I had done, and was walking away, he came up
to me and said, —

"You have been well employed, sir. Are you a
City Missionary?"

" No, sir," I replied.
" Connected with some church in the neighbourhood,



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I suppose, which has a Christian Instruction agency in
operation, as every Christian Church should ? "

" No, sir," I again said.
