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numbers somewhat decreased; but there was never a pause in the unceasing intercession for nearly fourteen hours. Our witness, and we were there at 10, at 12, at 3.30, and remained right on till 8.30, is this;-It was a season of importunate prayer, which cau no more fail to be answered than the Lord himself can change. All were not present who should have been, but there were among the assembly, at some time or other during the day, a very large proportion of the church-members; and those who prayed were enabled to draw very near to God in ardent faith. It was a holy day. During a part of the time a church-meeting was being held in another room, so that some of those who had come forward might confess Christ before his people. At the day's close many more seekers came forward, and male and female helpers were busy in conversation and prayer with persons convicted and enquiring. All was quiet as a summer's eve, but the dew of the Lord was there, and beneath its influence the living seed revealed itself. Before all was over the Pastor's new company of helpers met together to receive a word from him, and to rehearse to each other how they had sped in search after souls.

TUESDAY Evening was a very happy one. About a thousand children came together to hear good words concerning Jesus. There was no tea, no music, no magic lantern to attract the boys and girls, but they came in eagerly, listened as attentively as a congregation of grown-up people, and rushed to shake the pastor by the hand with a loving zeal which made one think of the children in the temple of old. The law and the gospel, their own hearts and the Spirit's work were faithfully spoken of to the children by the various speakers, and an evident feeling of interest and awe rested on the assembly. There had been much prayer for a blessing, and it came, as time will show. While we were talking to the young folks below, their mothers were upstairs holding a prayermeeting that the Lord would help us. Thus prayer and effort went hand-in

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WEDNESDAY Evening's Meeting was a very interesting one. Tea was given to servants, and to the poor women of our mother's meeting. The celerity with which provisions vanished reminded us of the way in which a heavy sea in a storm will clear the decks of a vessel. We had evidently gathered, besides the well-dressed domestic servants, a class of the poorest description, and we were delighted to see that they were quite as earnest in listening to the gospel as they had been in demolishing the feast. Despite the innumerable babies, the attention was rapt and eager, and we are persuaded that the seed fell on wellprepared soil. Here we pause, for the printer calls for copy. If spared we will finish the outline next month-it may stimulate others.

As perhaps our friends will like to see what the rest of the meetings are to be, we append the remainder of the list:

Thursday, Feb. 23rd.-Young people's prayer-meeting at six. Arrangements made that enquirers may meet with friends for direction and encouragement after the Lecture.

Friday, Feb. 24th.-Prayer for our orphans. Public meeting at Stockwell Orphanage at seven. One of the Pastors will preside.

Lord's-day, Feb. 26th.-Sermon to the Sabbath School and young people generally. By C. H. S., at 3 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 27th.-Prayer meeting for females only, at six. Young people's prayer-meeting at the same time. At seven, Elders and Deacons will deliver addresses to the unconverted at the usual prayer meeting.

Tuesday, Feb. 28th.-Great meeting of butchers' men invited by Mr. Henry Varley. Addresses in the Tabernacle at 7. (Tickets.) C. H. S. or Mr. Samuel Morley to preside.

Wednesday, March 1st.-Prayer-meetings at the houses of our friends, according to list which will be issued. May the prayers of all the households be heard in heaven. "The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first."

Thursday, March 2nd.-Mothers' prayer-meeting at six. Meeting for persons under concern of soul at half-past eight, after the lecture. Fathers' prayer-meeting

at 8.30.

Friday, March 3rd.-Meeting of our young friends above fifteen, and yet unsaved. Tea at six. (Tickets to be had of the Elders.)

Lord's-day, March 5th -A deputation will address Mrs. Bartlett's class and the senior classes of the Sabbath School; as also Mr. Bartlett's children's meeting at the Almshouses.

Monday, March 6th.-Prayer-meeting for females only, at six. For young people at the same time. Special prayer-meeting at seven for the various agencies of the church. Meeting for enquirers at half-past eight.

Tuesday, March 7th.-The Pastor and others will meet the parents of the Sabbath School children to tea, and speak with them upon heavenly things.

Wednesday, March 8th.-Annual meeting of Mrs. Bartlett's class.

Thursday, March 9.—Closing gathering. May our hearts be filled with adoring praise. We shall meet to commemorate our Lord's death. Members will please show their tickets. Spectators will find room in the gallery.

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special services, we fear the magazine may
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The Quarterly meeting of the Orphanage Collectors on February 10th was a very joyful one, and our young friends brought in twice as much money as before; hence our lists are long this month. We hope these collectors will increase and become a great support to the Orphanage. Collecting cards and boxes can be had on application to Mr. C. Blackshaw at the Tabernacle.

We have written a letter to the churches urging them to send in petitions to the House of Commons to back up Mr. Charles Reed in his motion to do away with the delivery of letters on the Lord's-day. We do without it in London, and it cannot therefore be necessary in the country. Some 20,000 persons are employed in the postoffice on the Sabbath, nearly all of them needlessly. A letter-carriers' life must be sheer slavery when he has to work seven days in the week, and rest never. We trust the churches will take the matter up. amounts to a national sin.

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The church at the Tabernacle has resolved to petition Parliament for the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church of England, which daily becomes more and more a feeder to the Church of Rome, and whose position as a government-favoured sect, is an insult and a wrong to all other churches.

Early in the year 1868, an effort was made to establish a new Baptist interest in

Mr. G. W. Oldring, a student from the Metropolitan Tabernacle College, was, in compliance with the request of two or three friends, sent down to commence the work. A large room in a warehouse was hired, and fitted up with accommodation for 300 persons. The work thus commenced has hitherto made steady and hopeful progress. A Church has been formed which numbers upwards of 60 members; a Sunday School established; the services of a Colporteur have been secured from the Metropolitan Tabernacle Colportage Association, and he is working with very encouraging success; a Loan Tract Society is in active operation; OpenAir and Cottage Services are held in various parts of the town; and it is hoped that by the Divine blessing on these efforts a strong and healthy church may be established. For some time past the need of a more suitable place of worship has been felt, and the congregation have succeeded in purchasing the Chapel formerly occupied by the Methodist Free Church. This Chapel is in a central position, and will seat about 700 persons. Attached to it is a minister's house. The entire premises have been purchased for the sum of £1,300, and placed in trust for the denomination. After renovation, it was opened for public worship, January 15th, when two sermons preached by Mr. G. Rogers, Theological Tutor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle College. On Lord's-day, January 22nd, Mr. H. Dowson preached. Collections during the Opening Services, including proceeds of a Tea Meeting, amounted to £74. The amount subscribed in receipts and reliable

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promises, including £50 from C. H. Spur geon, is about £400. The friends who have purchased this property are making a very earnest effort to raise half the entire cost during the first year We wish them every

success.

Mr. Edgley and his friends from Peniel have removed to a new Chapel in Berkely Road, Primrose Hill, with very encouraging prospects. We pray that the richest prosperity may attend them. They need liberal help, and we trust they will receive it. Our warmest sympathies are with them.

We are deeply saddened by the intelligence of the sudden death of our promising young brother, Mr. Wilkinson of Syston. We fondly hoped that he would have developed into an eminent preacher, but he sleeps in Jesus. We must be doubly diligent to add more labourers that these sad gaps may be filled.

The Conference of the College commences on Monday, March 27th. We entreat the prayers of all our friends that it may prove a season of refreshing.

Our beloved brother John Collins has removed from Southampton to Barnstaple; the Lord bless the movement.

The cheering reports which come to us from many quarters concerning the good done by our Colporteurs are a call to enlarged liberality towards that department of Christian labour. O that we had a

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hundred men at work in the dark village of England.

Thanks are due to many kind contributors, and to some whose names are not in the lists because their offerings have been used by us in works demanding aid, and not mentioned here. Their generously leaving it to us to dispose of their gifts has relieved us of care in points of our work which were sadly requiring pecuniary help.

With much pleasure we recommend all our Baptist readers to become regular subscribers to the Freeman newspaper. It is a credit to the denomination, and ought to be read in all Baptist families.

We have sold the whole edition of Vol. I. of our work on the Psalms, entitled the Treasury of David, and are issuing a second edition. The second volume has rece ved most generous reviews; we are working away at Vol. III.

Feathers for Arrows has reached the twentieth thousand, but we are persuaded many of our friends do not know of it. It is only half-a-crown and is meant to be a help to ministers, Sunday-school teachers, and others. We spent much labour upon it, and wish therefore to see it widely circulated.

Baptisms at Metropolitan Tabernacle, by Mr. J. A. Spurgeon:- January 26th, fourteen. By Mr. B. Davies, of Greenwich:-February 9th, seventeen.

Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Statement of Receipts from January 20th, 1871, to February 19th, 1871.

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