A BUDDHIST priest in Ceylon came in contact with a missionary, and in their interviews they frequently spoke of Christianity. The Buddhist listened, as might be expected, chiefly that he might find arguments to refute the religion thus obtruded on his notice. He made no objection, however, to reading the epistle to the Romans in Singalese. The first chapter astonished him, as holding up to his view sins common among his countrymen, and even, alas! among his Buddhist priests. But the words in the second chapter, about that law which is written in the heart, came home to the Buddhist presently. "Do you ever," inquired his friend, "feel anything make you unhappy when you have done what you know to be wrong?" "Yes, I do; it makes me very miserable." "Do you find that you have any power over this which troubles you—that you can drive it away?" "No; I have tried, but I can't drive it away." "Do you think that this witness of the heart is a bad thing or a good one?" "Bad it can't be; it tells me when I do wrong." "Do you think it comes from yourself?" "No; else I would put it away." "Then do you think that what St. Paul says may be true, and it may come from God, whose very existence you deny?" "It may be so," he answered, and quitted the room in deep thought. At different times he renewed the subject of the law written in the heart. The missionary, very wisely, did not press him on the subject, but left his own convictions to work. At last he exclaimed one day, "Is there any peace to the conscience, any pardon of sin, in the Christian religion? I have been trying and trying according to Buddhism, but there is no pardon and no peace." Then God's messenger delivered God's message. "Immanuel—God with us," was the substance of that message. The glad tidings reached the listener's soul: "From this day," said he, "I am a Christian."—Free Methodist.