sion of souls in countless cases. It expresses her own clear and vigorous grasp of gospel truth, and her yearning after souls; and by it she being dead will yet speak to multitudes, and that right on to the end of the age! Never shall we forget a sweet and solemn evening hour in June last, when for the first and last time this beloved friend was spending a few days with us at Harley House. Four or five hundred policemen and their wives had been listening to an earnest gospel address in the college hall; the long summer day had died away into twilight, and in the stillness which followed the close of the address our son sang as a solo, to a soft harmonium accompaniment, the tenderly pleading stanzas of that exquisite hymn. Every syllable fell distinct and clear, with a pathos and power that seemed as if it must reach every heart. We rejoiced that she should hear it thus sung, and felt that she was addressing that large and deeply impressed audience, far more effectively than by any words she could have uttered. Ah! how little we foresaw it was the last time she would hear it, and that the closing lines

"And know with assurance thou never canst die,
Since Jesus thy righteousness lives,"

might appropriately have been addressed to herself! Two brief months
more passed away, and then she was absent from the body, present with
the Lord." Her attached and devoted sister, her life's companion, and a
young niece were watching by her bed, but not apprehending danger,
when the heart's action suddenly failed, and in half an hour all was over.
She had fixed on that day to "
"go home
to Clifton; she went home, but
it was to paradise with Christ!

THE tenth year and session of the East London Mission Institute commences with the first of the current month (Oct., 1882). From their various holiday engagements the old students are returning to Harley House, while some twenty new men are making their appearance among the familiar faces at Cliff. These, selected out of a large number of applicants as hopeful volunteers for missionary service, have been received on probation and will be tested in various ways, and if they approve themselves as suitable will enter some on the general and some on the medical course of study.

Both branches of the Institute will be quite full this session, and we hope that our friends will kindly remember that the close of our financial year (Sept. 30th) generally finds us with an empty exchequer. This year will prove no exception to the rule; indeed we fear for the General Fund the balance may prove to be, temporarily, on the wrong side. But our God will supply every need! We dare not doubt this in the light of His promises and His providence. We entreat the prayers of our friends for a rich blessing on the labours of the coming session.

FOR HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS:

Harley House, Bow, London, E.; and Hulme Cliff College, Derbyshire.

AND THE

LIVINGSTONE (Congo) INLAND MISSION.

HONORARY DIRECTOR.
H. GRATTAN GUINNESS, F.R.G.S.

TREASURER.

STEVENSON A. BLACKWOOD, Esq., C.B.

BANKERS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN BANK, Bow BRANCH.

HONORARY AUDITORS.

THEODORE JONES & Co., Finsbury Circus.

HONORARY SECRETARY.
Mrs. H. GRATTAN GUINNESS.

TRUSTEES.

SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq., M.P., London.

THEODORE HOWARD, Esq., Westleigh, Bickley, Kent.
Captain the Hon. R. MORETON, Le Mars, Iowa, U.S.A.
Rev. J. STEPHENS, Somerset Villa, Dartmouth Park Hill, N.
J. VAN SOMMER, Esq., 13, New Inn, Strand, W.C.

Stevenson A. BLACKWOOD, Esq., C. B., Shortlands House, Bromley.

Rev. ARCHIBALD G. BROWN, London.

W. T. BERGER, Esq., Cannes.
Rev. HENRY E. BROOKE, Dovercourt.
W. CARRUTHERS, Esq., F.R.S.

Rev. Dr. CULROSS, Glasgow.
Rev. THAIN DAVIDSON, London.
The Rt. Hon. Lord FARNHAM.
CHARLES FINLAY, Esq.

REFEREES.

PHILIP HEN. GOSSE, Esq., F.R.S., Torquay.
Rev. S. HEBDITCH, Clapton.
JOHN HOUGHTON, Esq., Liverpool.
THEODORE HOWARD, Esq., London.
Rev. DAVID LowE, Newcastle.

DONALD MATHESON, Esq., London.

JOHN MELROSE, Esq., Edinburgh.
Captain the Hon. R. MORETON.

Mr. R. C. MORGAN, Editor of The Christian.
SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq., M.P.

The Rt. Hon. Lord PoLWARTH.
ROBERT PATON, Esq., London.

Rev. SINCLAIR PATTERSON, M.D., London.

The Rt. Hon. Lord RADSTOCK.
Rev. A. A. REES, Sunderland.

The Rt. Hon. Lord SHAFTESBURY, K.G.
T. B. SMITHIES, Esq., London.
Rev. C. H. SPURGEON.

Rev. J. HUDSON TAYLOR, China.
Rev. HENRY M. WILLIAMSON, Belfast.

Council of the Livingstone Inland Mission.

The Right Hon. Lord POLWARTH.
W. T. BERGER, Esq., Cannes.
THOS. COATES, Esq., Paisley.
JOHN HOUGHTON, Esq., Liverpool.
JOHN CORY, Esq., J.P., Cardiff.

Mr. and Mrs. H. GRATTAN GUINNESS.
RICHARD CORY, Esq., Oscar House.

Rev. A. TILLY, Cardiff.

W. G. HABERSHON, Esq., London.
J. CARVER, Esq., Brighton,
JAS. IRVINE, Esq., Liverpool.
Mrs. JOHNSON, Norwood.

Dr. ECCLES, Norwood.

Rev. J. STEPHENS, Highgate.

EAST LONDON INSTITUTE, HARLEY HOUSE, BOW, LONDON, E.; AND
HULME CLIFF COLLEGE. CURBAR, DERBYSHIRE.

This Institute was founded under a deep and pressing sense of the claims of the eight hundred millions of heathen, still in this nineteenth century utterly unevangelized; and of the need of a practical Training Home, where Christian young men, of any evangelical denomination, gifted for God's service, and sincerely desirous to devote themselves to it, might be received and tested, instructed in the truth, exercised in various branches of evangelistic labour, and when sufficiently prepared, helped to go forth as missionaries to any country or sphere to which God might providentially open their way.

The need for, and the benefit of, such an Institute may be judged from the fact that, during the nine years that have elapsed since its commencement, more than fourteen hundred Christian young men have applied to be received; that above four hundred have been accepted, and that nearly two hundred and fifty are at the present time labouring in the gospel, either in the Home or the Foreign field; while between seventy and eighty are still studying in the Institute.

The students have been of various nationalities: not only English, Scotch, Irish, and American, but French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Bulgarian, Syrian, Egyptian, Kaffir, Negro, Hindu, Parsee, Koordish, and Jewish. And they have been of various denominations; those of them who have gone forth as missionaries are now connected with about twenty different societies and associations.

The Institute is catholic and entirely undenominational. Young men of every rank, nation, and evangelical denomination are received and trained for every country and every sphere of Mission service; and the training is not only intellectual but practical. There is

A Central College and Training Home, HARLEY HOUSE, Bow, E., where about forty men of proved Christian character, volunteers for foreign Mission work, are receiving a course of special instruction and practical preparation for the important and arduous work to which they aspire, either as general or as medical missionaries; and there is

A similar College and Training Home in Derbyshire-HULME CLIFF COLLEGE, Curbar-where forty students are trained, more especially with a view to African missions, and where a knowledge of practical agriculture and other useful arts is imparted. Home Missions are carried on, as a part of their training, by the students of the Institute in the following mission halls and chapels belonging to it :-Cliff Chapel, Derbyshire; George Street Chapel, Bromley; Harley Hall, Devons Road; Saxon Road Hall, Old Ford; and

Help is likewise rendered by the students in very many other missions and evangelistic efforts both in town and country.

The Biblical Instruction is designed to give a clear grasp of the fundamental truths and evidences of Christianity. In addition to the ordinary routine of an English education, the students are instructed in theology, moral science and logic, Biblical exegesis, Christian evidences, sacred, profane, and church history, the Greek of the New Testament, scientific subjects, and, when needful, in modern languages. Those of them who are preparing to become medical missionaries attend the School of Medicine at the London Hospital.

The students received into the Institute are not, as a rule, in a position to contribute towards the expenses of their own support and training; the work is carried on in dependence on the God whose kingdom it seeks to extend, and it has, so far, been sustained by His almighty power, in answer to prayer.

It involves considerable outlay, the ordinary expenses being at the rate of £50 a year for each of the students in training, and a considerable sum besides being expended in the passage and outfit of missionaries entering on spheres of distant service, and directly in mission work.

More than 200 Missionaries-once Students in the Institute-are now scattered throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Armenia, Russia, Norway, China, Japan, India, Egypt, Syria, East Africa, Cape Colony, Natal, The Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, The Argentine Republic, Brazil, Jamaica, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Canada, The United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Contributions in aid of the funds of the Institute are much needed, and will be received with thanksgivings to God. They may be sent to the Treasurer, STEVENSON A. BLACKWOOD, Esq., or to the Hon. Director, H. GRATTAN GUINNESS, F.R.G.S., Harley House, Bow, E. Cheques should be crossed to the London and South Western Bank, and P.0.0. made payable at the General Post Office.