THE WORKHOUSE SUNDAY SCHOOL IN BETHNAL GREEN.

knowledge of educational matters, he has often rendered them invaluble assistance; and they now part from him with the assurance that, to the last On Tuesday evening, March 24th, the moment of his connexion with them, he annual meeting of this noble institution enjoyed their undiminished respect, and took place. In the absence of Charles their entire confidence. Buxton, Esq., (now M.P. for Newport,) "In thus expressing their high who was detained from attending by estimate of the character and ability of important business, the Rev. T. Gibson, their friend and fellow-worker, and M.A., was called to the chair. The recording their grateful sense of the chapel, a perfect model of its kind, was many services he has rendered, not well filled. There is something pecuonly to the British and Foreign School liarly pleasing in the aspect of these Society, but to the cause of education audiences. Deep sympathy, affection generally; and in now taking leave of and joy, is depicted on every counten. him, the Committee would unite in a ance; and when neatly and decently cordial and fervent wish that the clad, models of cleanliness, and pictures remainder of his life may be distin- of happiness, the dear children enter guished at once by usefulness and the room, they are greeted with such repose; that he may continue to enjoy, kind looks, pleasant smiles, and pleasto a distant day, the respect and love of attached friends; and that, while thus blessed in himself, he may have the opportunity of benefiting others by still contributing to the advancement and success of what he has done so much to promote, the cause of sound, comprehensive, and scriptural education."

It has since been unanimously resolved that the name of Henry Duun, Esq. be added to the General Committee.

Mr. Wilks, who for the past ten years has represented the Society in the north of England, advocating its interests and inspecting its schools, has been unanimously appointed by the Committee to succeed Mr. Dunn.-Educational Record.

NORTHAMPTON.

MOUNT ZION CHAPEL.-On Monday Evening, March the 30th, the teachers of the Sunday school connected with the above place of worship, held their usual quarterly meeeting, when one of the senior teachers, in the name of the whole body of teachers, presented a gold pencil case to J. E. RYLAND, M.A., the superintendent, as a mark of their esteem, and in acknowledgment of the kind and valued services which he has rendered to the school.

ing murmurings of applause, that is delightful both to think of and see, and on which watching angels must look with admiration.

The meeting was opened by the Rev. W. G. Lewis, who offered up an earnest supplication for the Divine blessing on the proceedings of the evening. After a few remarks by the chairman, Mr. W. Munday, the beloved superintendent of the schools, then made some general statements, and acknowledged the support of the guardians, and services of the other officers of the house. The children were then examined on the Scriptures, of which they proved their extensive knowledge by the ready answers to numerous questions put to them. The Rev. Daniel Katterns addressed the teachers, adverting to the proper qualifications for such a work, affording them motives for perseverance, and congratulating them on past success. The meeting was also ably and appropri ately addressed by the Revs. I. Colbourn, B.A., W. G. Lewis, and Josiah Viney, Mr. J. E. Saunders, jun., and Mr. J. S. Caldwell attended and addressed the meeting on behalf of the Sunday School Union. Mr. R. Gamman moved, and Mr. F. Winch seconded a vote of thanks to

the principal officials of the house, pant falsehood, blasting infidelity, and which was carried unanimously, the the alloy of schism and error. We children uniting in the show of hands. would kindly invite the officers of workDuring the evening several pieces houses to consider these things. Why were recited by the children with won- should there not be such a happy annual derful accuracy and tact. The effect meeting in every British Poor Law All Union? We ask the question with all

of these recitals seemed electrical.
who have read that delightful little
tract, "The Churchyard Prattler," can
imagine with what unbounded pleasure
a dear little girl, not six years old, was
heard to go through it from beginning
to end with touching emphasis, melting
tone, and forcible action. All the pieces
would have done credit to the members
of an elocution society. Let us hope
and pray that the noble sentiments
learnt and uttered by these boys and
girls within the walls of the workhouse,
may be loved and practised by them in
the wide, wide world.

And then the singing was at once
enchanting; truly a taste of heaven,
Mr. Prestage, and his kind helper, were
worthily thanked for the proficiency to
which they had brought this pleasing
part of the service. It need only be
stated, "Jerusalem," from the "Car-
mina Sacra,"
"Eternal Mansions,"
"Pray for the Peace," and "Webbe's
Doxology," were sung with a correct-
ness and tenderness that thrilled with
pleasure all who heard. After the meet-
ing, the children were regaled with cake
and milk.

deference, and submit it to calm, unbiased, and candid consideration.

Would God, what has been said of Bethnal Green, could be said of every workhouse in the kingdom! Would God, the Sabbath was so kept within all their precincts! Would God, that each one had its gatherings of the rising poor, ready and willing to study the best of books! Christians! pray for this day; pray that it may soon dawn on the night of apathy and neglect. Pray that its glorious light may dissipate the clouds of misfortune that envelope the poor of our beloved country. Pray that its beams may break in upon their hearts, gilding the present with peace, and the future with hope. Pray that they may soon see, that though stripped of the foliage of this world's riches, they may, when the winter of life is past, live in a region of endless spring, where they shall be clothed with fadeless and everlasting verdure. Pray especially, that the rising race, from whom the rough hand of misfortune has withdrawn both the support and influence of their parents or friends, may be led to Him, who, though once poor like them, will not only give them incorruptible riches, but eternal life.

The institution throughout deserves the highest commendation and praise; but its cardinal glory is, that the dear children, within its walls, are not only God bless the rising poor! And, afforded the opportunity of getting a while the plough of education turns up secular and religious education, where- the fallow soil of their hearts-while by they are placed in a position to rise patience hoes out the roots of poisonous in this world, but are on the Sabbath weeds-while hope casts in the seeds of brought especially under the influence knowledge-while love stands by and of the Gospel teaching, whereby they prays for the blessing, let the blessing are made fit for the inheritance of saints come. Sun of righteousness, shine! in light. They are not only fortified heavenly dew descend! Holy Spirit with earthly wisdom, but sent out into come! Warm, nurture, perfect, enrich, the world clothed with gospel truth as prosper, and sanctify them here; and with adamant, and proof against the exalt, bless, and glorify them hereafter. influences of conflicting theology, ram

W. W.

DEVONPORT.

WYCLIFFE CHAPEL SUNDAY SCHOOL,

MORICE TOWN.

IN the month of June last, possession was taken of the noble and convenient school and class rooms connected with Wycliffe Chapel, Devonport; and here the teachers have ample accommodation for their interesting charge, and enlarged facilities for their labors. Since the occupancy of these premises the number of children in attendance has constantly increased, and thus the places of those who remained at Salem Chapel, where a school is still conducted, have been more than filled, as there are now on the books 126 girls and 99 boys, making a total of 225 children, who are taught and trained by seven male and eight female teachers.

The Infant class contains 59 of the above number. These are instructed on the collective system, apart from the other scholars, and during the morning service in the Chapel, are retained in the school room, the teachers in rotation giving them instruction. In the Bible classes 20 of the older girls and 15 boys are taught separate from the general school in the very convenient class rooms which are now supplied; and this mode of operation and tuition being more suitable, as well as more interesting to the children themselves, will, it is hoped, serve to induce them to remain in the school for a longer period than they would otherwise feel disposed to do. Our respected pastor, (the Rev. John Pyer), intends to deliver, occasionally, on week-day evenings, a series of familiar lectures, on Scriptural, scientific. geographical and historical subjects, to the senior scholars, their parents, and friends. These lectures will be illustrated by maps and diagrams; and admission to them will be by tickets to be distributed by the teachers and other members of the congregation.

The female teachers and elder girls continue to meet on the first Friday

evening of each month, and spend a couple of hours together as a working party, when some suitable book is read by one of the teachers.

ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS

OF THE

NORTH SHIELDS SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. The Anniversary Meetings of this Union were held on Good Friday, 10th April. In the morning at 10 o'clock the children walked in procession, from their respective schools, to the Scotch Church, and Salem Chapel, where they were addressed by the Revs. T. Southern, J. C. Weir, J. D. Carrick, and Mr. Councillor Green; both places were crowded, many of the parents of the children being present, and apparently taking great interest in the proceedings.

In the afternoon, at 5 o'clock, the annual public tea meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, Norfolk Street. The company was numerous and respectable. Immediately after tea, Dr. BRAMWELL was called to the chair, and commenced his duties by calling upon the Rev. Mr. Derwent to open the meeting with singing and prayer.

The CHAIRMAN then said, that he could bear his testimony to the good which had resulted from the Sunday school cause. In our mining districts especially, it had not only been the pioneer of religion, but also of education; and through its early steady influence, those districts are now in a very different state to what they were some fifty years ago. He then called upon Mr. J. HALL Minute Secretary, to read the report, which stated-

That there are 15 schools in the Union, three of which are situated in the country, viz., Cullercoats, Messrs Hartleys, and Seaton Sluice. The two latter have been received during the past year. The total number of teachers in the Union is 295, and scholars 1,869. The monthly plan of visiting the schools has been carried out as usual during the

year, and has proved profitable both to the report, that the committee had resolved visitors and the visited. to canvass those destitute parts, for The monthly prayer meeting has also wherever charity may end, it ought to been kept up, and well sustained. begin at home.

A separate Sunday morning service was in operation several months, but was discontinued, owing to several reasons which the report goes on to specify at length.

The annual sermon on behalf of the Union was preached by the Rev. R. Chew, in St. Andrew's Chapel. The attendance and collection was pretty good. One of the schools has received a library-value £3.-from the Parent Society, London, for one-third its cost; this being one of the pecuniary advantages resulting from being connected with the London Sunday School Union, through the medium of its branches.

Rev. G. HALLETT supported the motion in an appropriate and energetic speech.

Mr. HALL, Minute Secretary of the Union, moved the next resolution, respecting having a general united CANVASS of the town for additional scholars.

The motion was seconded by Mr. ERRINGTON RIDLEY, Corresponding Secretary of the Newcastle Sunday School Union. Mr. Ridley in the course of his excellent, spirited, and practical address, gave several instances of lasting good which had come under his experience during his thirty years' connection with the Sunday schools of Newcastle, and when he could point to such men as Considerable difficulty has been ex- Dr. Morrison, Harbutt, Angus, Binney, perienced by the Committee in seeking and others, as having been connected to establish "Home Mission Schools" in with them in years gone by, he could the destitute parts of this town; and, as truly say that the good cause in Newyet, their efforts have to a certain ex- castle had been highly honored, recogtent been unsuccessful. The chief diffi-nized, and blessed by the Great Head of culty is, not being able to procure suit- the church. Mr. Ridley concluded by able rooms in suitable places, owing to offering many valuable suggestions retheir being so well let for mercantile specting the contemplated canvass, and and household purposes. But, in the hoped they might be put into practice meantime, the committee have come to and be useful. a resolution to canvass the town for additional scholars, hoping that their efforts in this direction will be more successful, and that every Christian and teacher will contribute his and her shares toward the contemplated design. Mr. CLELLAND proposed the adoption of the report.

Mr. SHARPE Seconded the proposition, and made some very interesting remarks upon the various Christian agencies at work, both at home and abroad. He was afraid, however, that the bustle, activity, and noise of the age would by and by cause the "still small voice" of the gospel to be either unheeded or unheard; nevertheless, our duty was still to go forth, not simply to the heathen lands, but to our heathen lanes. He, therefore, was glad to hear from the

Mr. FRATER, the corresponding secretary of the North Shields Union, supported the resolution He commenced by stating that the principle of unity is one of the great laws which the Creator has been pleased to impose upon all parts of his dominions, and upon all his intelligent creatures. Order or unity is heaven's first law; and when it is fully recognised and practised by men, it becomes earth's greatest blessing. In order however, to secure it, it is necessary that some grand object should be constantly kept in view: such as the greatest good to the greatest number or the glory of our common and eternal Father. In the carrying out of either of these, however, it is not necessary, neither is it desirable, that there should be any uniformity in our words, means, or

thoughts: indeed it is an impossibility without thinking. The world is full of

illustrations of this truth; on every hand we witness the embodiments of thought in the works of art and manufacturing skill; also in those of architectural beauty; in all these we see the shining traces of man's thought, power, labor; and even in morals, education, and religion, his achievements are no less glorious when they are guided by infinite wisdom. But the class of persons we require most for the movement, and for the work generally, are Chris

habits, and enlightened minds. Such a class of teachers would see to it, that our schools are supplied from time to time with plenty of children, and with sufficient to interest, to instruct, and with the blessing of heaven to save them; and thus carry on the work of the Most High.

to get all persons to think the same on any subject, much less upon the great and vital subject of religion. But though we are varied in the minor matters and points of our common Christianity-in our modes of church government-in our ways of conducting meetings-and in the means we employ for carrying out our plans, yet we can be one in object and in pursuit. Though we be varied as nature in regard to the former things-in respect to the latter, we can be one as the world: distinct as the bil-tians with warm hearts, persevering lows, we can be one as the sea. He believed that such a movement as the proposed canvass would be a means of cementing the union closer together, because it would be doing great good to great numbers; but before it could be successfully carried out, we should require considerable assistance from the church, not simply to procure additional scholars, but to teach them after they are got. Let him glance, then, at the class of persons we should require. And first, we should not require Genius; and even if we did, we could not get it; for she teaches new truths, not old ones; and those new truths are given to mankind, not to any particular division of them; such as boys or girls, youth or age, tribe or class. Her instructions are also given to all time, and not to any particular period of it. In these respects, our own good, great, and gifted Newton, was a genius. Her aspirations are therefore too lofty and sublime for us :

"She sees a hand we cannot see,
Which beckons her away,
And hears a voice we cannot hear,
Which bids her not to stay."

It is not with genius, then, that we have
to do, neither is it with persons of very
superior cultivation; though at the same
time intelligence is not to be overlooked,
for it is thought which rules the world;
notwithstanding what practical men
may choose to say about thinking men,
all true practice is based upon true
theory, and there can be no true theory

Mr. MILLS next moved the appointment of the office-bearers of the union for the ensuing year, and made some interesting observations on the moral influence of Sunday schools.

The motion was seconded by Mr. TURNER, who gave a beautifully simple and sincere narrative of his experience in Sunday school matters.

Mr. PRENTICE moved, and Mr. CHRISTIE seconded, a vote of thanks to the ladies for carrying out the arrangements connected with the tea.

Mr. FRATER also moved, and Mr. EMBLETON, seconded, a vote of thanks to the chairman. The singing of the Doxology, and the pronouncing of the Benediction, terminated the proceedings.

A FATHERLESS GIRL SAVED
FROM RUIN.

IN 1854, a girl, thirteen years old, was admitted into the St. Giles' Refuge. Her father had been dead many years, and her mother was then living in one of the worst parts of Westminster, a drunken bad character, careless of herself, and still more so of her children. This poor child was found by a missionary, in