Examined and certified by me, as duly entered in the books of the Mission, JAMES WADDELL (of J. WADDELL & CO.),

Fellow of the Institute of Accountants,

Mansion House Chambers, 12, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.

Received for the Missions and Bible-women Nurses with thanks :-Parcels of clothing, paper pillows, old linen, &c., from Mr. E. Cox; Mrs. Bower, and Mrs. Pears and family; Parker; Anonymous; Mrs. Molyneux Williams; Mrs. Jacomb Hood; Mrs. Hollier; Misses K.; Miss Ridge; Misses S. S. and E. Bell; A. W.; Miss F. Colson; Miss Stringer; Miss Goldsmith; Miss Abbs; Mrs. Hogan and Friends; Mr. F. Wheeler's working party; Misses Cottam; Miss Wardroper; patchwork quilt for a baby's cradle worked by a little girl six years old; books, from Mrs. Dalby; and hospital letters from Mrs. Bramley Moore; Hugh Seymour, Esq.; Mrs. C. D. Marston; Miss Cairns; and Miss Terry.

Contributions to the LONDON BIBLE AND DOMESTIC FEMALE MISSIONS can be received by the Honorary Secretary, Mrs. Ranyard, 13, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, London, W.C.; by the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., addressed to the Bank of Messrs. Ransom and Co., No. 1, Pall-mall East; also by Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street; and by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street. Money Orders should be made payable at the Post-office, Burton-crescent, W.C., in the name of Ellen Ranyard, and cheques crossed Ransom and Co.

C. A. Macintosh, Printer, Great New-stroet, London.

"IF FIFTY POUNDS FIFTY MORE."

We have received the following offer from a friend, who already sends us the annual support for a Bible-woman Nurse :—

"I have been prayerfully considering what can be done to avert the calamity of dismissing Bible-women in London for want of funds, and I would make the following offer, to be accepted or declined, as your friends see fit:

"I offer to give 507., provided that ten other fresh subscribers will send you 57. each, so as to make the sum 1007., this will support two Bible-women.

"A similar offer was made with success to the Scripturereaders' Society, by two ladies from the Southern and Eastern Counties. Do make some strenuous effort ere reducing your numbers.....

N.B.-While thankful for this kind offer, and feeling bound to place it before our readers, we are somewhat inclined to direct it towards those Lady Superintendents of our Missions who, we think, certainly might endeavour to raise 51. or even 107. for their own districts, locally, as they used to do of old time, instead of depending, as at present, almost entirely upon the General or Working Fund.

We have 61 self-supporting districts, and 26 collecting for themselves above 201. ; but the 98 almost entirely dependent upon our Working Fund, render it impossible for us to make any further addition to the original Bible Mission. Beginning the year 1875 with the number of 185 Bible-women, we would fain increase them once more to the number of 200, at least, but we are, of course, regulated by the means sent us for support.

With the contributions of January our hopes are kindled afresh. The funds have retrieved the backward tendency of the present year by 3007. We were 6007. behindhand, and are still 3007., and it will take between 7007. and 8007., beside the 3007, to warrant the sending forth of 15 new Bible-women.

How many English Christians are there that have a £1,000 lying by, that wants using in God's service, and who will cast His good seed into this field and do it without delay?

THE MASTER IS COME, AND CALLETH FOR THEE. WE find that the chief memorials which have reached us in our Home Mission this month concern "happy deaths." Now we can never part with the certainty, from our Saviour's own words upon the cross, that what we call death, is to Believers in Him but the closing of a door on things seen and temporal that concern this body, and a setting free of the spirit for that "Paradise" of which Christ spoke, and to which Paul said it was better to depart.— We can, therefore, rejoice for the condition whatever the " gone before" loss to ourselves, and whatever may have been the mode of dismission. We have lost quite recently two of our tried and valued Bible-women-one, Mrs. Nockles, after fifteen years' service in Bethnal-green. On the 23rd of December, many of her mothers followed her remains to Bow Cemetery, and the Pioneer, who had for a long time worked lovingly with both of them (as neither had a Lady Superintendent), was that very morning, before going to the funeral, called to look upon the other, Mrs. Bowhill, who had passed away suddenly as she sat down upon a doorstep, within a few yards of her own home, the previous night. She, too, had intended to be present at the interment of Mrs. Nockles. Each is sadly missed by the many who knew and loved them.

One of Mrs. N.'s mothers said, at the first meeting after her death, "I have been ill ever since I heard it, for I have lost the best friend I ever had." The testimony of the poor old husband, too, is very touching, and speaks volumes for her domestic character. "None can ever know what she has been to me, how she struggled through all our young days together, when I was wild, and careless, and indifferent; how she prayed for me, and helped me through it all, and never, never, returned my behaviour as it deserved; with love, and prayer, and patience, she pulled me through the first twenty years of my married life. We had both been Sunday-school teachers. 'God forgive me for every grief I caused her.' Now she is taken from me, after fifty years, how shall I bear it? I cannot seem to think for myself, and but for the kindness of that good neighhour, Mrs. S., I don't know what would have become of me.

She

knew all about the Bible subscribers; and I hope all is settled of my dear Nelly's work, over which she was so particular."

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I told him that was in perfect order. "Yes," he said, "she had learned how to do her work, for she had to be a life missionary to me; and ever since she was out of her apprenticeship she has worked in Sunday-schools, and as a tract distributor, up to fifteen years ago, when she began to be a Biblewoman, which has brought so much blessing to her and to me, and to so many more."

"She said to me," adds the Pioneer, "after our last meeting at Parker-street, 'How sorry I was not to be there, but it was so wet.' I described to her the very beautiful and helpful address, and she said, 'It makes me long for the next time. I wonder if it will be on New Year's-day; it was on New Year's-day fifteen years ago, I went first to those Monthly Meetings.' But now our Father has called her home to be 'for ever with the Lord,' she said on the last day of her life, 'she knew she was going,' and it seemed only like a going up-stairs, 'to live was Christ, and to die was gain.'

"At the same cemetery, on the last day of the year, 1874, we buried dear Mrs. Bowhill, called home in the midst of her years and usefulness. A love, which could not be hindered by the intense cold and fog, brought a long array of mourners to the funeral procession of their faithful friend. The Master she loved had called for her so suddenly, that it was difficult to realize she was gone, and would walk in and out amongst us no more for ever. So many young people followed the mothers; several from Wapping, some from Cannon-street in the city, who had begged an extra hour from their business, to whom she had been useful. One cannot describe the grief that was evidenced. I feared the effect of that chilly morning on many who were thinly clad, and by no means strong, but no one could know better than I how they loved her, and once more with many tears the parting hymn arose :

"For ever with the Lord."

"Just then the fog disappeared, and the deep white snow and ice, shone for a while under the noon-day light. Each