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, 11, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.

Received for the Bible Missions and Bible-women Nurses, with thanks :-Parcels of clothing, old linen, paper pillows, &c., from Anonymous; Mrs. Hawkins; Mrs. Robertson; Capt. Liebenrood; F. C. M.; Miss Usher; "Bowden"; Mrs. Berry; Lucy H. D. D.; C. N.; books and clothing, from C. B.; Miss Bruce; Miss Bower; text quilts, from Miss Robinson; Mrs. Smith; air pillows, from A. P.; hospital letters, from Captain Liebenrood; H. Zachary, Esq.; grapes, from Mrs. S. C. Baring; clothing and old boots for St. Giles's, from A. P.'; Miss Usher; Anonymous.

Received for distribution amongst the sick poor: cut flowers from Miss Walton, Anonymous, Miss Huish, Miss E. Huish, Miss Rankin.

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-street, London.

OUR COUNCIL OF FRIENDS FOR 1875.

President.

The Right Hon. the EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.

Treasurer.

The Hon. ARTHUR KINNAIRD, M.P.

Members.

The COUNTESS DOWAGER OF GAINS- | The Rev. Dr. DYKES.

This year has carried many of us back in thought to Jonah's preaching at Nineveh, back for between two or three thousand years in the world's story, when a message from God, sent likewise by one messenger, and a message not of mercy but of destruction, bade a great heathen city tremble and turn from its evil way—a city whose infant population seems to have been in number about a quarter only of our own.

The message from heaven to us, however, of this year, has referred us to a crucified and risen Christ and to the Divine Book in all our hands, which speaks to us concerning a Redeemer of whom NINEVEH knew nothing, and if there be anything permanent in the results of the evangelising speech and holy songs of our American visitors, it has been and will be that they have called fresh attention to the things that are written in that Book.

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And truly these men were the MEN OF THE BOOK. Morning, noon, and night, about that Book they had something fresh to sing or say. An angel had touched Mr. Moody's lips "with a live coal from off the altar," and he brought alike to saint and sinner, "words that burn," and that God had spoken. He showed the way into Bible mines, and bade those follow VOL. XI.-NO. 12.

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who had not known that way, and he also invited those who dug already among heavenly treasures daily to dig deeper, and because he came to a Bible-loving people, more or less, he has been suffered to reap quite as much of God's good seed as he has sown.

Even by those who profess to have been unmoved by their visit, it has been acknowledged that Mr. Moody was a real, un-self-seeking, and truly humble man; while multitudes have seen him to be a chosen instrument in God's hand to sound afresh the Gospel Trumpet in an age or dispensation, when culture, and science, and disbelief of God's inspired Scriptures are widely supposed of necessity to go together. He came with a most powerful impression on his own mind, from a personal and perpetual study of the Word, that we are nearly at the close of the four Old World kingdoms of Daniel's dream-and that there is speedily to follow them the Everlasting kingdom of the Son of Man! which must be preceded by mighty changes and terrific judgments. Hence His perpetual appeal to all men individually, ARE you ready for it? ARE YOU SAVED from the wrath to come? Hence his fervent and stirring appeals to the spiritually halt and maimed, and lame and blind-the careless worldly professors of a luxurious city (to whom American evangelists of another school have also especially addressed themselves)-to "arise and trim their lamps," and thus, we fully believe, have been added many souls to Christ's kingdom, and numberless new messengers, both public and private, rich and poor, to those who have seemed called forth all round the world to gather in the last guests to the Heavenly Supper.

There is now in London many a fresh breach in the walls of prejudice and pride and sin, into which, if spared to work through this winter, old and new soldiers may enter, hand in

hand.

We believe there is no true Evangelizing work amongst us but has felt an impulse to go forward from what was called the "Moody and Sankey movement." It has shown us, amid all the activities of evil agents, and all that may be depressing in the signs of the times, that, meanwhile, there are fields of souls

ripe unto the harvest, and that we may each in our measure help more earnestly than ever to sickle the grain and gather in the sheaves.

We left them free to

Our own community of Bible-women and Bible-Nurses have evidently been strengthened for their work to come by the spiritual privileges of the year gone by. attend Mr. Moody's Meetings, as far as they could in their own localities during the spring months, and we hear that numbers of them were found practically useful in the Enquiry-rooms. We had some fears that the daily steady visitation from houseto-house, which is their usual duty, might be hindered in conse quence, but it does not seem to have been so. They have been really quickened in diligence, and have seen how important it is to follow up newly-awakened souls, and lead them to possess and feed upon the Word of God, also to draw them into fresh circles of Christian fellowship and teaching on the Lord'sday. And we have good reason to believe that the desire to receive the Bible, as the very voice of God, to search it, and to understand it, is really increasing in our Mothers' classes. The poor women wish to be enabled to answer with the authority of "It is written," the fearful doubts and disbeliefs which are so zealously infused into the minds of working men (their husbands) by the false teachers of this day.

We hope to induce our Lady Superintendents more and more to let the Bible speak for itself to such seekers, in selected and connected series of texts on practical subjects, after the method employed by Mr. Moody in his popular Bible readings.*

A visiting friend writes us :

"Mrs. Mis a very good, earnest worker. Her mothers seem very thankful for her visits, and I hear them say, 'Come round soon again, will you, and speak to him; he was so much better after you saw him' (referring to an erring husband, who

* See pp. 314 and 333 of our October and November numbers. When this has been tried hitherto it has fixed the attention of the class on one Scriptural idea, and impressed it on their minds, so that whatever house the Bible-woman visited afterwards she was sure to hear something about BIBLE-CLOCKS and how to set about making them.