She is quite altered, and finds time to go to God's house, and also to read His Word.

"Mrs. N and her husband are passing through a great trial in the death of their only child. The mother is a bright Christian; she is very glad for Nurse and me to go in, for it strengthens her she says. She is surrounded with people who say, 'It does seem hard for your child to be taken away when so many grow up uncared for. I wonder you have such a trial.' She says it seems as if they wanted to say, 'Where is your God?' Her prayer is, 'Lord, help me to walk quietly before them, so that they may know there is something in religion to sustain and comfort.' She is also praying that her husband may not take to drinking to forget his trouble.

"One of our mothers, Mrs. J- is much changed. She is not a bit like the same woman who used to bring her little boy to the meeting and play with him all the time. One woman told me confidentially that our meeting would come to grief if I did not tell Mrs. Jto keep away; but, instead of doing that, I got her to the front seats, and, if the secret be told, prayed all the more for her; and now she listens very attentively, and comes to the Prayer Meeting as well as the Mothers, Meeting. She is very fond of Nurse; and I heard her telling a long story about her girl, who would have lost her leg if it had not been for Nurse's care. She ended by saying, 'I'd run a mile to look in that woman's face.' The 'girl,' to show her gratitude, goes to church with Nurse every Sunday morning.

"Our Mothers' Meeting increases steadily; we have had grandmothers, mothers, and now the children. One woman has brought two daughters; and another one, Mrs. Pbrought her daughter the other day, and said, "Now she's married," I says to her, "come along with me. If your grandmother could only see you sitting in this meeting it would be the pride of her heart."" They all love our Lady Superintendent very much; and now that she has been obliged to go away for a time, they look so anxiously for her letters. I suppose every Bible-woman thinks her flock of mothers are the very best. I am sure I do.

"We had our children's dinners as usual last winter; one hundred sat down every week. 'Freddy's' mother cooked for She attends the meeting very regularly.

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"I remain, dear Madam, yours faithfully,

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TEMPERANCE WORK AT SEVENOAKS.

"DEAR MRS. LEONARD,

"I think you will like to know how our Bible-woman is getting on with her work. I consider she has done wonders in the short space of time she has been here in the way of influencing the people for good. She has a great field to work upon, for, to quote her own words, 'I don't think I ever knew a place where there is so much drunkenness.'

"We started a temperance movement, and before Christmas had succeeded in getting nearly sixty people to sign the pledge, and especially one man, a confirmed drunkard, who has now promised to be the conductor of our singing-class.

"It was then suggested that it would be a good thing to give our members a tea on Boxing-night to keep them away from the public-houses, so we got up one. A schoolroom was kindly lent to us for the purpose, and after tea the Vicar gave us a capital address, which greatly impressed the people.

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During the evening the women presented the Bible-woman with a nice warm cloak and a little handbag, to show their gratitude for all she had done for them. She was quite overcome, for she had no idea she was to receive these gifts. The thought originated with one of the women whom she had been the means, with God's help, of leading to a better life.

She works

"It was most gratifying to see that they really appreciated what Mrs. P-- has done and is doing for them. very hard, and her influence is wonderful; as one of them remarked to me, 'She goes to work in the right way with us.'

"You asked me to give you some particulars about her classes. She has established one on Tuesday evenings, from seven to nine, for girls of seventeen and upwards, to teach them

to cut out and mend their clothes; on an average twenty girls attend, and have made great progress. The same evening there is a singing-class for adults in connection with the temperance movement, just to make them feel that they can be happy without drink. On Wednesdays, from five to six, about thirty young girls come for Bible instruction, and they are followed by a class of elder ones, who also receive a Bible lesson; and on Thursday there is a class for boys between the ages of fourteen and nineteen; and a prayer-meeting for grown-up people, so her time is fully occupied, and certainly her work was much needed here.

"I remain, dear Mrs. L-, yours sincerely,

"J. R."

OUR DAY AT WOODFORD.

On the 2nd of July our Bible-women and Nurses, at the kind invitation of their unchanging friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ford Barclay, once again spent their annual day of bright recess at Woodford. In every sense the day was bright-a contrast to the cold rainy weather of last summer-for the sky was cloudless, the scent of the haymaking filling the air, the flowers brilliant and gay, and over the whole landscape spread that perfect look and feeling of a balmy summer day so welcome to the tired workers who gathered together early that morning from the heated thoroughfares, alleys, and corners of the metropolis and filled the special train which soon brought them to the grounds of Monkhams. Here they were received and welcomed by their kind hostess, who had arranged everything possible for their comfort and enjoyment. As one of the number said in describing her day's pleasure, "I've had a drive, and I've had a row in the boat, and I've had a swing, and been tossed in the hay." Two open waggonettes were doing service all the afternoon taking detachments in turn for a drive.

At five o'clock some of the Superintending Ladies of the various Missions joined the party, and after tea all assembled in the large tent, where prayer was offered by the Rev. W. Huleat

and some earnest words of exhortation spoken. The only drawback to the day's complete satisfaction was the absence, through illness, of their kind friend Mr. Barclay, but his venerable mother was present, and she had selected some beautiful lines. to be given as her son's message to the Bible-women. These were inscribed in large letters and hung up within the tent, and they formed the keynote to the address given by the Rector of Woodford. Taking each word separately, he urged on his hearers to be faithful, strong, and true, to go forward afresh in the might of the Lord to do battle in the strongholds of Satan and of sin, to fight under the banner of the Saviour, taking His word as their unfailing weapon, and trusting in His strength for success and final victory.

"Stronghearted, truehearted, faithful, and loyal,

Lord of our life, by Thy grace we will be!

Under Thy standard, exalted and royal,

Strong in Thy strength, we will battle for Thee ! "

"Onward then, and fear not,

Children of the day;

For His Word shall never,

Never pass away!"

A short address from Mrs. Reaney followed, and after a little more wandering about, and receiving each a gift of lovely flowers, the large party reassembled at eight o'clock for their return journey.

We can only desire that each of our Nurses and Biblewomen may take the lines given to them as their motto through the coming year, and in remembrance of their very happy day at Monkhams. L. W.

EMIGRATION UNDER NURSE'S AUSPICES.

A TIN of biscuits, two jars of Liebeg's essence of meat, two tins of condensed milk, two tins of cocoa, and two bottles of acid drops. These are not the usual "comforts" taken by our Nurses to their sick patients! This list, however, was given to a mission worker one afternoon last month, to be made up into two parcels, and directed, not to any home in Whitechape

or Drury Lane, but to Mr. Lockyer and Mr. Bristowe, ss. Kapunda."

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The "Kapunda" is an emigrant ship bound for Brisbane, and going with her are two families, old patients of one of our Nurses, who has succeeded in collecting sufficient funds to pay their "assisted passages." She has now known them seven years, attending the parents and children in illnesses and accidents of all kinds, and through her teaching the husband and wife in one family have become Christians, while all have been long ago induced to become total abstainers.

One father is a labourer, the other a baker, and for several winters work has been very scarce; and seeing no prospect of better times in England they at length decided, by Nurse's advice, to emigrate to Queensland. 167. was needed for the passages of one family, consisting of father, mother, and five children; and 157. for the other, and as they had no means of obtaining the necessary funds, Nurse undertook to collect the money for them. During the last three months she has obtained the whole amount, partly from private donors and partly as a loan from the Charity Organization, which is to be repaid by degrees. But money was not the only thing needed; each emigrant must not have less than a certain number of articles of clothing, and Nurse has procured the necessary outfits for the parents and children from the Mission stores and elsewhere. The worry and anxiety of the preparations for this important "move" has caused a serious illness to one of the mothers, and Nurse feared it was brain fever, but she is now pronounced convalescent, and they are all looking forward with much eagerness to the sea voyage as "a long bank holiday."

It was thought that during the three months' passage the invalid and the children would appreciate a few luxuries in addition to the emigrant fare, and this is the history of our two parcels, in which the acid drops were a special present for the little ones. Our emigrants' chief perplexity is "How shall we get on without Nurse in the new country?" We earnestly second the answer given by the pioneer :-"I told them I hoped they would be able to pay for a Nurse there, and that they would remember all that ours has taught them here."