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In Victoria I also visited the White Hills Cemetery, where our Brethren William Wedlake and William Alfred are interred; there is no headstone to mark the spot.

Of the uniform kindness of the brethren and friends, especially of my generous host, who laid himself out to make me as comfortable and to let me see as much as was possible of the colony in so hurried a visit, I cannot speak too highly, and I have every reason to believe that if it so turns out that I come back to live among them for a few years, the farewell words of Dr. Campbell, will be literally fulfilled, "that they would all gather around me, as soldiers around their General."

On Thursday, March 30th, I left again for Melbourne, and had the pleasure of spending Sunday, April 2nd, with the friends there, leaving on the Wednesday after for New Zealand. F. W. BOURNE.

BR. T. E. KEEN, ON BR. BOURNE'S VISIT TO

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

IN a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Bro. Keen expresses himself on Br. Bourne's election, as President, his labours, &c., as follows:

"I need scarcely say that Mr. Bourne was put into the presidential chair, by a unanimous and enthusiastic vote. The fact is, we feel very sanguine as to the beneficial effect our genial climate will have upon Mr. Bourne's health, and being exceedingly anxious to secure the services of one who stands so high in our Denomination, we have put him into the highest office we have in our power; hoping the two things combined will induce him to take up his residence on our shores. I cannot tell you how glad we are to have hin in our midst, and how much we have enjoyed his preaching and addresses. His Conference sermon was sublime. His charge to the three young men, when received into full connexion, was wonderful! I never in my life felt a sermon or an address bear upon me all round, like that charge. It seemed to touch every weak place in the way of correction; every doubtful place, in the way of instruction; and on every difficulty, in the way of encouragement. I think I shall not soon forget that charge; and there are many of my brethren precisely like myself in regard to it. On the sabbath I heard him preach twice, and I hesitate not to say, it was the greatest day's privilege, in the shape of hearing the Word, I ever enjoyed. The morning sermon was preached in our City Church, (which was crowded); the evening sermon was preached in the City Town Hall, a building seating 1,000 people. Many went away unable to obtain seats. Br. Bourne's manner of presiding at the Conference, was, to a considerable extent, new to us; but we very much admire it, and shall not fail to profit. He is the guest of His Honour, Chief Justice Way; and it is with no small degree of pleasure, I can assure you, that we see our visitor, side by side with His Honour, in his splendid barouche, being drawn through our streets. On the Saturday, the members of the Conference, together with their lady friends, were invited to His Honour's mansion, at North Adelaide. The entire house and grounds were thrown open, and the joyous time we all had there, will not soon be forgotten. The gathering was somewhat remarkable. Among the guests were old Mr. Gibson, from St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, the oldest Bible Christian in the colony. He united in membership with us in 1821, and remembers Mr. O'Bryan quite well. He is the father of Mrs. Ashton, widow of our late brother James Ashton. There were three generations of that dear old man present, all true Bible Christians. Then, there were the only son and eldest daughter of our late dear Br. James Thorne. Bro. James Way, and his eldest son, the Chief Justice. Br. James Roberts, who will complete his ministerial jubilee in a few

days, and Mrs. Roberts, and some other aged Bible Christians. On Wednesday next, the Bible Christian Ministers and their children, are invited by the Chief Justice to repair to his residence, from I to II p.m. to meet the Rev. F. W. Bourne.

we,

I have a son in Adelaide in the Civil Service (Engineer-in-Chief's Department), who was married on December 22nd last; and a daughter (my second) who is a student in Training College (Education Department), and with my son's wife, are going. The Bible Christian element amongst our young men, is somewhat extensive in Adelaide. Mr. Ashton's two sons are, one in the Civil Service (Hydraulic Department), the other is our connexional lawyer. Br. Foster has some sons here in business, so has Br. Stoyel; Br. Piper has a son learning to be a lawyer, and Br. Rowe has one son articled to a lawyer, and two or three others in business situations. Then, there is my son, who has been six years in the Civil Service. Several of these young men promise Bible Christian usefulness. The two Ashton's are good local preachers. My son is no preacher, but he is chapel steward, and at the same table where I am now writing, he is making out seat-rent accounts. I tell you Br. Gilbert, it is a joyous time to me to see my son working for Christ in any capacity. I thank God sincerely, that all my children are members, and enjoying life in Christ, but the youngest, who is just 10 years of age.

We are having good times. The discussion on our spiritual state was a precious season. Oh! how good to talk of conversions! Wouldn't I like to be always in a revival!"

Brief Notices of Books.

T. E. KEEN.

Addresses and Sermons. By Rev. E. E. Jenkins, M.A. Wesleyan Conference Office.

THIS volume consists, with two exceptions, of sermons and addresses delivered by Mr. Jenkins during his year of office as President of the Wesleyan Conference. These sermons and addresses are the wise and seasonable utterances of one who is well versed in the speculative difficulties of the age, and who knows what is required in order to the preservation of the churches, and of the young in particular, from the dangers which beset their steps. It would not become us to pronounce a judgment on the ex-cathedra discourses of a distinguished minister when filling one of the most honoured posts of service in Protestantism, and whom we remember as the author of the Fernley Lecture of 1877, on Modern Atheism; its position and promise. We feel we have done our work when we have drawn the attention of our readers to the fact that, as seems to be coming customary now, the Ex-President's sermons and addresses "prepared for certain occasions" of his year of office, are now published in a collected form. A Manual of Natural and Revealed Theology. Designed especially for Local Preachers and Sunday School Teachers. By Rev. H. W. Williams, D.D. 4s. 6d. Wesleyan Conference Office.

A NEW Handbook, written in short chapters, which are well packed with thought, and with the results of reading and research in the most recent and important fields of enquiry. The style is clear and finished. This Manual is very well adapted to the requirement and use of those for whom it is especially prepared, and of candidates for the ministry, and young students generally. It is a good deal fuller in treatment than the skeleton lectures of Dr. Hannah, though we

must not forget that Dr. Hannah's definitions are almost perfect; it is as full as Field, and has more of the light of recent thought playing over its pages, and, moreover, is planned in a way that would gratify those persons who do not care much for the form of question and answer into which Field's theology is cast; it is, of course, far briefer than Watson and Pope, and will suit the numerous class to be found among the various Methodist denominations who have not the leisure or inclination to go through those Standard Compendiums of Theology. The Clerical Library. Volume I. 6s. Three Hundred outlines of Sermons on the New Testament.

THIS is the first volume of The Clerical Library, projected by Hodder and Stoughton, and which is, we believe, to extend to about twelve volumes. The outlines contained in the volume before us are necessarily brief, as we have three hundred in less than as many pages; and they are prepared-not by the authorsfrom the published sermons of nearly all the more generally known of the great preachers of this country and America.

Jovinian; a story of the Early Days of Papal Rome. By W. H. G. Kingston. Popular edition. 2s. 6d. Hodder and Stoughton.

A CAPITAL tale, illustrative of the period of which it treats. It is true to Church history, and shows how astute were the leaders of the growing hierarchy in laying hold of the existing political arrangements of the crumbling Empire, in order to further their own interests now that the Emperor had avowed himself a Christian, and what evil was wrought thereby to the Church, and what sufferings were entailed on the numerous class of persons who truly "believed, and to Jesus and each other cleaved."

The Book of Joshua. By George C. M. Douglas, D.D. This little volume is one of the series of cheap Hand-books for Bible Classes published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, and edited by Dr. Marcus Dods, and Dr. A. Whyte. THESE Hand-books furnish the most recent and scholarly exegesis at small cost, in a popular form; though let it be understood, we could not commit ourselves to all the interpretations given by the writers of these manuals. The one on Joshua has an introduction to the book; and appended to the sections into which it is divided are questions for use in the class, or, by the reader for testing his own knowledge.

The Canal Boy who became President. By Frederick T. Gammon. edition, Is. 6d.

Third

A BRIEF and popularly written life of General Garfield. A capital book to put in the hands of a boy. The copy we have was seized by a little boy we know who was attracted by its bright covers, and not brought back until it had been read by him and his sister, and other members of the household; a better tribute to its value for the purpose for which it was written than any words of our own would be. We are glad to recognise in the author of this successful little book, the name of Mr. F. T. Gammon, one of the sons of the respected governor of the Bible Christian College, Shebbear.

Some new light from the Scriptures. By James Johnstone.

A BROCHURE written to prove that the Scriptures teach the dual and not the tripartite nature of man.

The Sentinel. A monthly Journal, devoted to the exposition and advancement of public morality, and to the suppression of vice.

THIS journal is well conducted, and treats a difficult subject with delicacy, yet with faithfulness. It does what it can to throw some light on, and to remove, the great and black darkness of one side of English life. The work needed, requires to be done with firmness and boldness by those who may suitably take it

up; and all such persons deserve the sympathy and support of Christians everywhere. We reproduce elsewhere a few paragraphs from a seasonable paper on "Pernicious Literature," and the way in which the habit of feeding the mind on such mental garbage saps the moral life of multitudes.

We have received from the Wesleyan Conference Office, a parcel of new books to which we would draw the attention of our readers, particularly Sunday-school superintendents and others who have to do with the selection of Sunday-school rewards, and books for school libraries. At Is. 6d., and illustrated are, Crabtree Fold, by Mrs. Watson; Tom Fletcher's Fortunes, by Mrs. H. B. Paull; The Boy who Wondered, by Mrs. G. Gladstone; The Hillside Farm, by Anna J. Buckland; Two Standard Bearers in the East, sketches of Dr. Duff and Dr. Wilson, by Rev. J. Marratt. At Is. are, Little Foxes, or the little sins that mar the Christian character, by Rev. John Calwell; Beatrice and Brian, by Helen Briston; The First year of My Life, a true story for young people, by Rose Cathay Friend; Uncle Dick's Legacy, by Emily H. Miller. All but the first are illustrated. Morning Sunshine, thoughts for little ones; 9d. Aids to Holiness; 3d. At His Table, for young disciples, by Rev. G. S. Rowe, 1d..-A guide to the Lord's table for young Christians.

Chapels.

JUBILEE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, LONDON.

FOR more than ten years, the above pleasing title has appeared on the front of a substantial and noble building in East Road, London. In itself the edifice is well worthy of being the memorial of a Jubilee. Its exterior displays a degree of architectural wisdom, which renders it suitably comparable to the generality of buildings in our great metropolis. Its interior has recently undergone renovation, by which it is purged from the dust and smokiness which had accumulated from the time it was opened. It is, therefore, at present a temple for devotion, of which no worshippers need be ashamed.

The prosperity that has attended the labours of God's servants within and around this sanctuary, has not been commensurate with the hopes of those who promoted its erection; yet it has been sufficient to compensate the labour and sacrifice bestowed upon it, manifestations of the saving power of God having been witnessed from time to time. A brother writing in the Observer, says, respecting his congregation in London, Canada, that, "Though not large, it is reliable." That, and a little more may be said of the Jubilee congregation. Probably no church in the Denomination has suffered so much from the constant migration of its members, yet the additions suffice to maintain the work, and to keep all the active and benevolent machinery of the cause in successful operation.

A few particulars concerning recent successes having been given in the magazine for May, it is judged desirable just now to revive a subject respecting which something was said, and but too little done some years ago, namely, the removal of the debt on the Jubilee Memorial building.

It will be remembered by many of the chief brethren in the connexion, that this chapel was erected under the direction of the Conference, with the understanding that the cost thereof would be met by a Denominational effort, the old Ebenezer Society being expected to raise only a fair proportion of the amount, so that no debt should remain, or no more than the friends might reasonably be expected to bear. This condition, as is well known, was never fulfilled. The debt

left upon the property was greatly beyond the capabilities of the Society to grapple with. And, although several strenuous efforts have been made to reduce the liabilities, the friends feel that the promised connexional aid, to the full extent, must soon or late be rendered them. Some long-standing supporters of our cause here affirm that it was inconsiderate, if not unjust, on the part of the Conference, to place them in such a position. They would never have thought of incurring so great an expense themselves. A chapel of less dimensions, and of far less cost, would have met their necessity. Still it was gratifying to them to be identified with the proposed Jubilee Memorial. They freely contributed towards the outlay, and have continued their exemplary liberality to the funds of the chapel unto the present time. Yet, the large sum required annually to meet the interest, ground rent, &c., and the yearly deficiency that has to be met from some Connexional fund, occasion anxiety and pain. The trustees, the Society, the pastor, and also the brethren constituting the Connexional executive, who have to vote the hard-earned profits of the Book-room to meet this case, all realise the unpleasantness of the circumstance. Every one declares “ Something must be done!" What shall be done? How shall it be done? And when?

Let it be fairly understood that the property is very good; the buildings are substantial, and in appearance are highly creditable to the body. As a place of worship it is commodious; as a centre for our metropolitan work, it is well situated, and as a monument of the enterprise and success of the Denomination it is admirably suited to its purpose. No other chapel belonging to us is connexional in so wide a sense as the Jubilee Memorial. Surely it is not honourable that it should remain under such an incubus. Let us determine to pay for it!

There being a probability that the Conference of 1884 will be held here, our friends desire to prepare for a great endeavour at that time to discharge this debt. By large subscriptions and a grand bazaar it is hoped it will be done.

FIFTY THOUSAND SHILLINGS in cash or saleable goods would be sufficient to reduce the debt to such dimensions that it need never be heard of again outside the walls of the Jubilee Memorial itself. Who will say that the Connexion cannot or ought not to do this deed?

"In the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Will some of our brethren who feel deeply interested in the London cause kindly forward any suggestions that they may have to offer in regard to this proposal? Meanwhile we hope to add a few words next month.

W. LUKE.

ASHWATER.

RE-OPENING CHAPEL.-The Bible Christian Chapel, Ashwater, having recently undergone considerable repairs, was re-opened on Monday, the 24th inst. The day's proceedings commenced with service in the chapel, when the Rev. Mr. Rogers, of North Looe, addressed the congregation, taking for his text St. John xx. 19 to 21 verses. After the termination of the service the people repaired to the adjoining schoolroom, where a bazaar of various useful and fancy articles was held (the proceeds of which will go to defray part of the expenses of the chapel.) Mr. Rowe made a brief speech, in which he exhorted the people to show their charity, reminding them that the money so spent was for a good cause. The refreshment stall was richly decked by Mrs. T. Nanckevell, Miss Pollie Fry and Mr. Cole. The other stalls were kept by Mrs. John Docket, Mrs. Joseph Docket, the Misses E. and F. Fry, Bradford; the Misses F. and A. Fry, Ashmill; the Misses F. and E. Soby, Ashwater; Miss M, Stenlake, Ashwater; Miss B. Jones, Henford; and Miss B. Brown. Tea was provided in the class-room, the tables being presided over by Mrs. Stenlake, Miss Smale, Mrs. Friend, Mrs. Veale, and