Pastors' College Society of Evangelists. TH HE history of the setting apart of certain of our students for the work of Evangelists has been often related, and month by month the "Notes" in The Sword and the Trowel have given full particulars of their services; so that in this Report little is needed beyond the mention of the places that have been visited by our brethren during the year that has elapsed since the last annual Conference. It will be seen from the lists printed below that, in cities, towns, and villages, in each portion of the United Kingdom, the help of our Evangelists has been sought and secured; and we do not suppose that one mission has been held without the salvation of some souls, while in several instances the enquirers and converts have been counted by scores, or even by hundreds. There is the greatest readiness on the part of ministers of almost all Evangelical denominations to welcome the aid of our brethren, and after the Evangelists have once been to a place, they are nearly always invited to go again and again, for the pastors find them to be their true fellow-labourers, assisting them in arousing and edifying believers, and bringing to decision the awakened and the unconcerned. The only difficulty in connection with this most useful form of Christian service is that the funds for its maintenance are often very low, and we are unable to increase the number of workers in this fruitful field because the contributions from the churches visited, together with the donations allotted to this work, only just enable us to support the four brethren, Messrs. Fullerton, Smith, Burnham, and Russell, who are maintained by us, and to give occasional help to Messrs. Mateer and Parker when they need it from us. LISTS OF PLACES VISITED SINCE LAST CONFERENCE. MESSRS. FULLERTON AND SMITH. Cardiff, Dundee, Galashiels, Falkirk, Selkirk, Hawick, Belfast, Ballymena, Londonderry, Kenyon Chapel and Metropolitan Tabernacle, Weston-super-Mare, Exeter, Bideford, St. Helens, Folkestone, Southampton, and Huddersfield. MR. BURNHAM.-Carlisle, Houghton, Crosby Garrett, Carlton Green, Saxmundham, Shoreditch Tabernacle, Kent hop-gardens, Swanage, Wareham, Wood Green, Melton Mowbray, Watton (Norfolk), Leicester, Mansfield, Ashton-under-Lyne, Rendham and district (Suffolk), Barrow-in-Furness, Dalton-in-Furness, Romsey, West Bournemouth, and Wickham Market. MR. RUSSELL.-Tetbury, West Drayton, Congleton, Eastwood Vale and other places in the Potteries, Sutton, N. Cheam, S. Shields, Attercliffe, Leeds, New Whittington, Reading, Sunderland, Blackheath, Tunbridge Wells, Crowborough, Taunton, Holyhead, Wolsingham, and Hull. MESSRS. MATEER AND PARKER. Portsea, Taunton, Dalton-inFurness, Douglas (Isle of Man), Skipton, Horsforth, Huddersfield, Glasgow, Mirfield, Trowbridge, Hanwell, Margate, Ramsgate, Milnsbridge, New Barnet, Luton, Gosport, Ashford, Godalming, Newport (Monmouthshire), and Blaenavon. 393 Churches furnish returns for 1884 of these, 294† show an average increase of 15 members per church; 68 an average decrease of 9 members per church; 31 show the same numbers as in previous return; thus giving an average INCREASE OF 9 MEMBERS PER CHURCH, The discrepancy between these figures and those printed in last year's Report is occasioned by the addition of returns from five Churches, which arrived too late for insertion in the Report. + 50 of these are Metropolitan Churches, and show a clear increase of 1,571 members, or an average increase of 11 per church, C. Sumner. What, in our age, are the true objects of National ambition: What is truly National Glory ?-National Honour. What is the true Grandeur of Nations? The true honour of a Nation is to be found only in deeds of Justice, and in the happiness of its people.' "O World! O men! what are ye, and our best designs, That we must work by crime to punish crime, And slay as if death had but this one gate?" Byron. WAR! THE COST OF WAR.-"Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe; will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud; I will build a schoolhouse on every hillside and in every valley over the whole earth; I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every state, and will fill it with able professors; I will crown every hill with a place of worship consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel of peace; I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime or one hill should answer the chime on another round the earth's wide circumference, and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend, like a universal holocaust, to heaven."-RICHARD. WHAT IS MORE TERRIBLE THAN WAR? "I WILL tell you what is ten times, and TEN THOUSAND TIMES, more terrible than War,Outraged Nature. She kills, and kills, and is never tired of killing, till see has taught man the terrible lesson he is so slow to learn-that nature is only conquered by obeying her..... Man has his courtesies of war; he spares the woman and child. But Nature is fierce when she is offended, as she is bounteous and kind when she is obeyed. She spares neither woman nor child. She has no pity; for some awful, but most good reason, she is not allowed to have any pity. Silently, she strikes the sleeping child with as little remorse as she would strike the strongest man with the musket or the pickaxe in his hand. Ah, would to God that some man had the pictorial eloquence to put before the mothers of England the mass of preventable suffering, the mass of preventable agony of mind and body, which exists in England year after year."-KINGSLEY. How much longer inust the causes of this startling array of preventible deaths continue unchecked? FOR THE MEANS OF PREVENTION, and for preserving health by natural means, sce large illustrated sheet wrapped with each bottle of ENO'S FRUIT SALT. CAUTION-Examine each Bottie, and see that the Capsule is marked ENO'S FRUIT SALT" Without it you have been imposed on by a worthless imitation. SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS. Directions in 16 Languages How to Prevent Disease, PREPARED ONLY AT ENO'S FRUIT SALT WORKS, HATCHAM, LONDON, S.E, BY J. C. ENO'S PATENT POST FREE FOR SIX STAMPS, or LARGE EDITION (bound in cloth), 1s. 3d., the AUTHOR. froir CONSUMPTION AND ALL LUNG DISEASES. By G. T. CONGREVE, Coombe Lodge, Peckham. The Nature, Progress, and True Treatment of this Scourge of England. The following Cases are selected from the THIRTEENTH SERIES. CASE REPORTED HOPELESS.-CASE of MR. SIMS, of MIDDLESBOROUGH. My correspondent in this case was not the patient himself, but MR. JOHN BELL, Grocer and Draper, of SOUTH ESTON, MIDDLESBOROUGH-himself a patient, and who has recommended my treatment to many-and this is what he says concerning SIMS, in a letter dated November 18, 1884: "He came two miles to see me on Sunday, and says he is as good a man as ever, and has been at work two months. At the time I gave him a small bottle of your medicino he was in bed, and had lost all hope of recovery. He was told by five doctors that his lungs were going fast, so that he gave his working clothes away, thinking he should want them no more. But that small bottle did him good, and encouraged him, by the aid of friends and your liberal allowance, to porsevere, with the happy result before named." ADVANCED PHTHISIS.-CASE of MR. JONES, TALY WAIN, PONTYPOOL. The EDITOR of the "CHRISTIAN GLOBE," referring to this case, says :We communicated with a Mr. Arthur Jones, of Taly wain Station, Pontypool, Mon., with reference to a letter of his, and he in every particular bears out the statements therein conveyed as to the benefits received by his brother after he placed himself under Mr. Congreve's charge. Mr. Jones's brother was attacked by Phthisis-and he was at death's door. He attributes his recovery entirely to Mr. Congreve's medicine and advice." CONSULTATIONS AT COOMBE LODGE on TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY MORNINGS ONLY. EVERY PATIENT SHOULD READ THE BOOK BEFOREHAND. |