is of universal adaptation. Hence its great importance as a power in the evangelization of the world, and the desirableness of its extension by means of "Keys," in different languages and dialects.

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coming alone the first among Santhals in this place speaks for itself. Pray that this may be the firstfruits of a great harvest."

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The Smyrna "Rest."

HOSE of our readers who are interested in the Smyrna Rest," will, we are sure, be glad to know that Miss Maude Grimston sailed on the 29th of September to rejoin Miss Green Armytage, whom she left in charge during her absence in England. Miss Grimston is much cheered and encouraged by the evident appreciation of the comfort and quiet secured at the Rest by sailors and others, for whom it has been instituted; and we trust that all will join in asking that God will yet more abundantly crown with His blessing this effort for the extension to Smyrna of Christian influence and teaching.

UCH prayer has been offered, for months past, that the Lord would lay the interests of Israel so heavily on the hearts of His people, as that they should find it impossible to forget to pray for Israel.

A few months ago, a Christian lady, residing at the West-End, wrote to me a letter expressing deep interest in the Jews, and longing that something special might be attempted to reach with the Gospel of Christ the higher class Jews in Bayswater, offering pecuniary aid and prayer for blessing, should any effort be made by our Mildmay Mission.

I went over to see this lady, and had conversation and prayer with her, and found her a devoted Christian and an intelligent friend of Israel. We arranged to wait till the holiday season had passed, and then in the autumn, that I should, the Lord permitting, give two lectures.

Let me remind our readers that the winter is setting in, and that we shall hail with joy any quantity of clothing for the poor, whose deep needs are brought to light by our Medical Mission.

Extract from last year's Summary :

Needs and Supplies.

And now it remains for me to say a few words as to the needs and supplies. First of all, we thank the Lord for giving us abundance of work, for it is blessed to work directly for God and not to man. We thank the Lord also for the workers-paid and unpaid

-who have all been, we believe, sent by the Lord, and certainly unsought by us, and who have all worked in loving union and faithfulness during another year.

As to supplies. We asked the Lord for £1000 a year for the first three years of this Mission, after which we would watch the indications of the Lord's will as to our future course. The Mission was commenced on the 1st of June, 1876. On the 31st of May, 1877, we had the £1000 sent in without direct appeal to any one but the Lord. This was the more marked as we were nine or ten pounds short of the thousand on the 30th of May. The second year was the same, the £1000 in 365 days, but not in 364 days. The third year the £1000 came in 363 days. This included the offerings sent in for the proposed Medical Mission, but as the Lord sent in the additional offering of £200 for the Medical Mission, and which made up the £500 token we had asked from the Lord, and this occurring before the close of our third year, we took it as the mind of the Lord that this Mildmay Mission to the Jews must be continued, and continued, on first principles-by asking the Lord and telling His people. As indicating the Lord's guiding hand with reference to our Medical Mission, we feel sure it will interest our friends to learn the details of the Lord's leadings hitherto. Let us go back to November, 1872. For some months before this date I had been pained to see two or three aged Christian Jews penniless, with no means of subsistence beyond a fitful charity, and no prospect but the workhouse. I tried to interest a

Committee in them, but failed. The Lord's guidance was then sought apart from Committees. I put one old man into a room, got furniture-new and secondhand-for about £5, asked the Lord for it, and got it. Another, with a little shop, could neither keep on his shop nor pay his rent. I got his rent for him, got him out of the shop, and interested a Christian houseagent in the old man. This gentleman allowed the old man and his wife to live rent free until the house was let, and then the old couple removed to another. In the meantime I had drawn up a circular, with prayer for the Lord's guidance, suggesting a Cottage Home for aged Christian Israelites. I ran on to the residence of the late Rev. W. Pennefather, my neighbour and kind friend, and asked him to unite with me in prayer for £500 for a Cottage Home. He rose from his knees to write the first cheque. The Lord sent the £500. I bought the Cottage in Ferntower Road, furnished it, and then by a legal document handed it over to the Committee under whose auspices I laboured. When, in May, 1876, my official connection with that Committee was severed, the Home management and superintendence were taken out of my hands. We still visit and pray with the old people, and have a pecuniary interest in the Home besides, for our Mildmay Mission finds £30 a year towards the maintenance of five of the ten inmates, besides little extras during the year for them all.

While waiting on the Lord for funds for this Home, I received a kind Christian letter from John Dixon, M.B., stating that he had heard me speak at the Mildmay Conference as to a proposed Home for aged Christian Jews, and offered his services gratuitously as medical attendant. I had then never seen this gentleman. The first thing was to thank the Lord; and then I wrote to the doctor to say that he might expect to hear from me again when the Lord had given me the Home.

He kindly and gratuitously attended the old folks from the first till a few months ago, when his altered plans necessitated his withdrawal. Two years since last summer-that is, in the summer of 1877-I received a further communication from the doctor, asking me to unite with him in prayer for the Lord's guidance as to his abandoning his private practice and devoting his life to the work of a Medical Missionary, willing to go either to the Jews or to the heathen, as the Lord might direct. My reply was in substance as follows:-"We will unite with you and your dear wife in seeking for you the Lord's guidance, and should He direct your steps to the 'Mildmay Mission,' it would be a real joy to have your fellowship in labour, and I should regard it as an unspeakable honour from the Lord to be permitted to engage the services of the first Medical Missionary in England to the Jews." I was then from home, but on my return we met, and united in prayer, fixing on the sum of £500 as a token from the Lord that He had this additional work for us

to do. The £500 were in hand in February (1879); but as the doctor had to sell his practice and introduce his successor up to the end of the year 1879, we could not commence our Medical Mission till the beginning of 1880.

During the last few months (1879), we have been looking out for suitable premises, the premises at Wellclose Square not being quite suitable. We have been directed to rooms in Hooper Square, Leman Street, E., an entire floor of six rooms, including two thrown into one for our Mission Room.

One of the smaller rooms will be used as a consulting room, another communicating with it will be used for dressing wounds, another divided between a dispensary and a store room, and another as the housekeeper's room.

Our funds for the Medical Mission have of course been unused on account of the doctor's engagement till the end of the year; but the alterations, fittings, furniture, and drugs, together with the stipend of the Medical Missionary, will soon lessen considerably the amount in our hands, so that we trust that no one will slacken the hand in consequence of the funds in hand at the end of 1879. It should be stated that our new premises are over the German School behind the German Chapel, and belong to the trustees of that property. The rooms are also near our former premises, and surrounded by a large population of poor Jews, the very class for whom the Mission is intended.

And now a word as to personal matters. On this topic I rather hesitate, and yet I don't know why I should. It is generally known that a few private friends promised me for three years that which would meet my family needs. They kindly fulfilled their engagement, which terminated on the 31st of May, 1879. One friend continues to contribute a portion of the former amount. It was urged by some that I should take a regular stipend from the Mission fund. My feeling was to wait on the Lord for guidance: perhaps He had further lessons for me in a life of faith. So I resolved that as long as the Lord supplied the daily needs of my family, apart from the Mission fund, I would still go on with my work, taking no salary from either the Mission fund or the Conference Hall. We praise our God that under the new arrangement sufficient has been sent in for personal use to last till the end of this month, January -the eighth month of the fourth year of this Mission; i.e., we are still a fortnight in advance, but having had so many tokens of our Father's love and care, we dare not doubt His Word-"Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." "Jehovah, He it is that doth go before thee, He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.”

We warmly thank all our beloved friends who, for the Lord's sake, have contributed to meet the needs of

the Lord's servant while doing the Lord's work; and we pray for each one a full reward. Friends will kindly notice that every offering, however small, intended for Mr. Wilkinson's personal use, should be distinctly stated "for personal use;" otherwise, whenever there is a doubt, we invariably apply the offering to the General Fund.

Extracts from Letters of Sympathy.

One says: "A friend has interested me so much in your work in connection with the Mildmay Mission to the Jews' as to induce me to send you a cheque for nineteen guineas."

Another says: "I enclose five pounds for your good work; please do not publish my name."

Another says: "I rejoice to hear of the blessing attending your work among the ancient people; may it be prospered abundantly, and may the blessing come on your family and yourself also. Pray accept the enclosed cheque for £10."

Another says, when sending his offering: "I am guilty in neglecting my elder brother."

Another says: I have ordered some warm skirts for women and girls to be sent to you from a warehouse in the City; they may warm some of the poor Jewesses and children in whom you are so kindly interested, and I hope may be acceptable."

Another says: "I am so thankful to hear how abundantly our gracious Master blesses the work; the

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little portion laid on my heart for you this morning is, 'My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.'"

Another, with earnest prayer for the work and the workers, says: "Perhaps it will cheer you to know that since I first heard you speak on behalf of the Jews, some five years ago in Hereford, the Lord led me to devote always a tenth (and sometimes more) of my earnings for His cause among the Jews."

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Another : A few of my young people have been engaged during the spring and winter in making the clothes for the poor Jewish children, which we have now great pleasure in forwarding to you. I have no doubt you will know of some poor children who are in want at this cold season of the year."

Another: "Your Mission is carried out in a manner that must be welcome to many believing hearts, its main spring being trust in the Living God, and not in human machinery. I sincerely wish prosperity to the work and the workers, and have pleasure in sending you a cheque for £5."

I have recently delivered two Lectures at the Westend of London to the higher class Jews, the substance of which will appear in the early Numbers of next

year.

P.S. Our night-school for Jewish children needs a lady teacher on Wednesday evening, from 6.30 to 7.30. Will some Christian lady volunteer this service for the Lord's sake? JOHN WILKINSON.

79, Mildmay Road, N.

SALE. The annual Sale for the Bethnal Green and Mildmay Road Medical Missions and Hospitals will (God willing) be held in Room No. 6, Conference Hall, Mildmay Park, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 14th, 15th, and 16th of December. Open from 11 a.m. till 8 p.m. Admission, Is. ; children half price; which sum will be returned in value on first purchase. All kinds of useful and fancy work for sale.

CARDS FROM PALESTINE.-Mrs. Gilbert, returning from her charge at Nazareth, writes :-"I shall be glad to send Christmas cards of wild flowers from Bethlehem (sold for the support of the English Mission School there) to anyone who will send me an order. Price 10s. a dozen. Address to 36, Pyrland Road, Highbury, N." Nazareth has found so many new friends, that I am now anxious to get help for Bethlehem ; and Christmas seems naturally the time for arousing or reawakening interest in our Saviour's birthplace. HOSPITAL PILLOW AND LETTER MISSION.-The annual

prayer meeting of the Secretaries and female workers of this Mission will (D.V.) be he'd at the Conference Hall (in Room No. 6) on Thursday, the 9th December, at 3 o'clock. The attendance of ladies interested in the work is invited.

SEA-SIDE CONVALESCENT HOME FOR CHILDREN.Those desirous of placing children, needing special care, at the sea-side during the winter months, will be interested in learning that arrangements may be made for their reception at the Home for Children, recently established as a Branch of the London and Brighton Invalid Home, Kemp Town. An experienced Christian matron is in charge, and the Home is under the supervision of the Resident Lady Visitors of the Parent Home. Good medical attendance is given gratuitously. Minimum terms, 8s. per week. An introduction from a clergyman or minister is requisite when the parents or friends are unknown to the Hon. Secretaries. Inquiries may be addressed to Miss Elliott (Hon. Sec.), 66, Mildmay Park, London, N.