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what she had been taught: now do you go and do likewise. When you think of millions worshipping such ugly idols, you will, I hope, pray for them, and do all you can to send teachers. You may only be able to give a little, but your halfpenny may buy a book which may be the means of converting an idolator. We want you to feel an interest in Missions, till the time come when all shall know the Lord.

The CHAIRMAN said that all Missionaries were useful at home before they went to be useful abroad; and then said, he had heard of a little girl, on the other side of London, who had by her prayers and kindness prevailed on her rude brother, and her father, and mother, to attend worship. She nursed the baby whilst her mother went. A little French boy attended a Missionary meeting in Paris, and went home and prayed that God would make him a Missionary. That was the right feeling!

The Rev. J. ANGUS, M. A., Secretary to the Baptist Missionary Society, rose and said,The Baptist Missionary Society is doing good in three parts of the world-the East Indies and the West Indies, and Africa. They have given the heathen the Bible; they have taught them to read; and they are preaching the gospel. I will now tell you what has been done in these three parts of labour by the means they have used. I will suppose that there are a thousand children here to-night. Now imagine twenty

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ANGUS, M. A., Secretary to the ary Society, rose and said,issionary Society is doing good of the world-the East Indies Indies, and Africa. They have en the Bible; they have taught nd they are preaching the gospel. you what has been done in these labour by the means they have uppose that there are a thousand to-night. Now imagine twenty

chapels joined to this, every one holding a thousand persons; they would together hold the number of children which the Society teaches. This is part of what is doing. With regard to t the Bible, if I could multiply these chapels to four hundred, every one occupied by a thousand children, then the Society has given to every one in these chapels a copy of the Scriptures. This too is what is doing. The third means it employs is preaching the gospel. Now imagine forty chapels like this, and all filled. These 40,000 persons that fill them are not many more than the members of churches connected with the Society. It teaches as many children as twenty chapels would hold, has as many members as forty would hold, and has given Bibles to as many as would find seats in four hundred. This is what it has done, and it is in this you are to rejoice. I told a Bible class one day that all men would become Christians. "I believe it," said a little boy, " for the Bible says so." That is just it; and that is what we want you to believe, and tell to others, that they may believe it too. But we must work as well as pray. You have heard of the boy who only prayed and could not say his lesson, and of the boy who prayed and tried to get it, and said it well. That is the way; pray and work too.

But how are we to work for it? Why, in the first place, little children are to tell their fellow little children about it. Suppose that little boy

loves Christ, what an easy thing it is for him to say to another boy in the same class, "Do you love him? I was never happy till I loved him; but, oh, I am happy now.'

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This is one thing you may do; but you may do something more than this-you may send the gospel to others. Look at a penny, it is nothing but a piece of copper; but put it into the collecting box, and by-and-by it comes out in the form of a page of the Bible, written on both sides with such texts as these-"It is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." You make your pence Bibles by giving them to God. "Ah, but," say little children, "we cannot do much." Well, is this so? You have all heard of New Park-street school. I do not wish to make them proud, but I will tell you what they are doing. They take cards and books, and little boys and girls bring in a penny or twopence, up to five shillings a month; and I will tell you what these poor children do; they educate every day in the year about sixty or eighty little coppercoloured children in the Island of Ceylon. New Park-street school has agreed to raise 127. a year, and that is nearly enough to support two teachers. Now this is what the Resolution refers to it speaks about all the children helping to do something, and then persuading other schools to come and help too.

Now, about these cards. A woman was asked

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