ANONYMOUS VOICES.
rro THE EDITOR. OF It "Sewn:role] SR,—With reference to the interesting ealticle on thia subject in your last issue, I beard a whimsical illustration last winter in a lecture on " Coincidences " delivered by the Rev. .1. P. Struthers, of G-reenock. He told us of a friend of his who was a great admirer of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Bonar, a man once well known, and still remembered, in Glasgow. This friend had been in the habit of going to Dr. Bonar whenever he was in any trouble or difficulty, great or small, for advice. After Dr. Bonar's death be- brooded constantly on the want of his adviser, wondering what he would do should any difficulty arise now. One afternoon when walking along a quiet part of the Great Western Road, his mind full, of this subject, he was startled by a voice saying somewhat sharply : "Don't lean on Andrew Bonar." He turned round, and saw no one near him but a nursemaid with a perambulator in which were two children. She was putting upright in its seat one child who had been leaning -somewhat heavily on its brother. It is an old custom in Scotland for one of the boys of a family to -be "named after" the minister who baptises him; and that was probably the explanation of the rather quaint name used by the maid when referring to this child. The lecturer went on to tell us that his friend took this call of the anonymous voice to himself as bearing on his own case, and that it was the means of raising him from the state of dependency on one man that he only then realised he had been long living in.—
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