70 SCRAPS FROM THE EDITOR'S WASTE BASKET. and expended much of their best strength in the interests of the church at Ilkeston. We are glad to hear that one cause which has hindered progress is about to be removed. Queen street chapel, so uncomfortable and so ill adapted for preaching purposes, is being practically reconstructed, and school-rooms for the accommodation of 400 scholars are rising in its rear. A well-attended prayer meeting was held at seven o'clock on the morning of Jan. 15th. In the afternoon of the same day, memorial stones of the new building were laid, by Mrs. W. Smith, of Ilkeston, Mrs. C. Ellis, of Ilkeston, Mr. Earnest Hooley, of Long Eaton, and Mr. C Howard, an aged and beloved teacher, for his son-in-law Mr. S. Cresswell, of Nottingham. There was a large gathering of friends. The ministers of the town took part in the proceedings, and the Rev. T. R. Stevenson delivered an address. At the close of the ceremony 420 friends partook of tea in the Free Church school-room, South street, and in the evening a crowded public meeting was held. H. H. West, Esq., of Heanor, presided. The Revs. T. R Stevenson, Professor Goadby, B.A., R. F. Griffiths, W. H. Tetley, A. H. Smith, F. Todd, and the pastor, A. C. Perriam, addressed the meeting. Collections &c., amounted to over £90. The new school-rooms and chapel improvements will cost £1000. Mr. R. Argile, of Ripley, is the architect. If our brethren at Queen street, Ilkeston, are to realise their hope of raising £600 by the time the chapel is re-opened in April next, £200 will have to be obtained somehow, during the next three months. Gifts of money, however trifling, or parcels of goods, for a sale of work which is to be held next Easter, will be gratefully acknowleded by the Rev. A. C. Perriam. May our friends meet with much encouragement. Scraps from the Editor's Waste-Basket. I. THIS IS THE WAY, WALK YE IN IT.A deacon of one of our country churches writes: "Being indisposed, I could not get to chapel last Sunday, and so had a good opportunity of conning over the Magazine for this month (Jan.), and in doing so was so much impressed with certain articles (specified) that I send you 88. 4d. for fifty copies for free distribution." How many deacons are there who hear the voice saying behind them, "this is the way, walk ye in it !" II. CARE FOR THE WANDERING SHEEP. -Our ministers will have received, for the first time in their lives, a New Year's Gift from the Association. This is a new thing under the sun. Associations ask for gifts, collect them, and spend them; but is it not an unprecedented thing for Associations to make presents to any of its members? To this height of goodness our Association soared at the beginning of this year. It is one of the finest auguries we have for our future. The gift consisted of two neatly printed books intended to aid us in watching over our wandering sheep. It has not come too soon. I have known many instances of Christians lost to our churches, and lost to all churches for years, and therefore value at a high price any attempt to counteract this source of individual and organic decay. If these books are used, our churches and societies will be gainers in untold measure. III. OUR WORK IN NOTTINGHAM.-We rejoice exceedingly in the manifold signs of activity and enterprise at this great midland centre. Our advertisement sheet has been telling of forthcoming bazaars. The friends at WOODBOROUGH ROAD are attacking their debt with energy and enthusiasm, and will win, as they deserve, a signal success. Friends far and near should avail themselves of this opportunity of forwarding this most promising work.The BROAD STREET Annual Report, just received, is full of brightness, enthusiasm, and hope.-HYSON GREEN has a sale as the month dawns, and we trust it will be a most productive one.-Of CARRINGTON another page speaks.-NEW BASFORD is pushing forward its work with zeal.This is the hour for Nottingham. Is it too much to say-and we are the men for the hour! IV. EGYPT.-The "Dual Control" has ceased, and SIR AUCKLAND COLVIN, with "expressions of personal regret" on the part of the KHEDIVE, has tendered his resignation. The Cairo correspondent of the Times speaks of the benefits of that Control, during the three years and a half of its existence, as "incalculable." That Control has saved the fellaheen two millions in interest, and has given regularity to the collection of taxes: told the peasant what, and when to pay, and so introduced method and order into Egyptian administration for the first time. 35,000 unverified vouchers have been discovered in ARABI's department. Preparation is being made for a thorough reform of the administration of justice. Church Register. Information should be sent by the 16th of the month to 51, Porchester Road, Westbourne Park, London, W. CONFERENCES. After The G. B. MIDLAND SPRING CONFERENCE will be held at Old Basford, on Tuesday, Feb. 13th inst. Devotional service at eleven a.m.; the Rev. E. Carrington, of Swadlincote, to preach. noon session at 2.30. The Rev. J. H. Atkinson, Chairman for the year, to preside. A public meeting will be held at seven p.m., the Rev. T. Goadby, B.A., to preside, when addresses will be delivered by the Revs. T. R. Stevenson, A. Firth, R. Silby, J. R. Godfrey, and others, on Foreign Missions, Home Missions, and Sunday-school work. J. SALISBURY, Secretary. CHAPELS. BIRMINGHAM, Lombard Street.-At a special meeting on Dec. 20th, Mr. Isaac Wright, on behalf of the church and congregation, presented Mr. Cantrell with a purse containing £23. DENHOLME.-A Christmas tree and sale of work was opened by Rev. J. Taylor Dec. 23, and continued Dec. 25, 26. The annual tea was held on Christmas-day. About 270 to tea. Proceeds £30 for our new school, for which the outlay will be £1,200. We greatly need the help of friends. DISEWORTH.-The annual tea meeting was held, Dec. 25. Rev. W. A. Davies presided, and several addresses were delivered. FLEET.-Dec. 26, annual sale, followed by a tea, and a lecture on "Woman" by the Rev. E. H. Jackson. Proceeds over £20. HALIFAX North Parade.-Annual Tea for church and congregation on Jan. 1, one of the best meetings ever held. Rejoicings for extinction of chapel and school debt of £250. Considerable increase in membership. Church now 442 strong. All societies fully equipped for action. Jan. 7, United Communion with P. B. church at Pellon Lane. Sweet service. Rev. T. Michael and W. Dyson officiated. HALIFAX Lee Mount.-Dec. 23rd, a Christmas tree and sale of work was held, opened by Councillor Lewis Smith. Clear proceeds of four days, £110. HURSTWOOD.-We held our annual tea Jan. 6. Over two hundred were present. Mr. Jas. Crabtree, senior deacon, presided. Recitations were given by the Sabbath-scholars, addresses by Messrs. R. Greenwood and G. Crabtree, several anthems by the choir. IBSTOCK.-Nov. 27, a lecture was delivered by Rev. G. Needham on "President Garfield." The pastor presided.The Hugglescote choir and and orchestral band, conducted by Professor Buckley of Swadlincote, gave a Christmas concert, Dec. 27. KEGWORTH.-A Christmas tree and sale was opened by Rev. W. A. Davies, Dec. 26. The orchestral band, led by Mr. F. Astle, gave selections of high class music, accompanied by Mr. Smedley, pianist. KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD.-Tea and Christmas entertainment. Proceeds, £12 28. towards the chapel debt. LONDON, Praed Street.-The choir and congregation have sustained considerable loss in the removal of their organist, Mr. H. S. Rickards, to Adelaide, where he has accepted a business appointment. His services at the chapel were purely gratuitous, and he has also been extremely useful as Secretary at Hall Park Sunday School. The choir and the teachers accordingly determined upon presenting him with some mark of their esteem and affection. In this object members of the congregation heartily concurred, with the result that, at a homely gathering on Jan. 11, a gold watch was handed to him by W. J. Avery. Messrs. H. Sampson (choir leader), W. Carter (S. S. superintendent), and W. C. James (deacon), spoke of the high regard in which Mr. Rickards had been, and would continue to be, held. Mr. S. D. Rickards, as well as his son, acknowledged the gift. LONDON, Bethnal Green Road.-The Nazarite Guild-composed exclusively of total abstaining Christians-celebrated its first anniversary Dec. 30, by a tea and public meeting. The Secretary's report showed considerable activity on the part of the members in the Master's vineyard, for in one week over 10,000 houses were visited, and the occupants invited to our beautiful chapel, besides which the society has been very useful in leading young Christians to publicly profess Christ and join the church. Dr. Dawson Burns, Rev. G. W. M'Cree, Miss McPherson, the pastor, and others, addressed the meeting. SHORE.-Annual meeting on Christmasday. 400 to tea. Addresses by Rev. J. K. Chappelle, and Mr. R. Greenwood. Report of school read by the secretary, Mr. T. H. Greenwood. 72 CHURCH REGISTER. STALYBRIDGE.-The sale of work and Christmas tree realized the sum of £80. 400 to tea. STOKE-ON-TRENT.-A watch-night service was held on the last night of the old year, conducted by Rev. S. Hirst. The attendance was good, and the service solemn and profitable. An address was delivered by the pastor on "Watch, wait, work!"-United Prayer Meetings were held from Jan. 8 to 12, in the Primitive Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan, and New Connexion Methodist Chapels, Revs. J. E. Winter, G. Jones, S. Hirst, and T. P. Bullen, with Messrs. Griffiths, Morton, Acton, Hodgkiss, Harris, and Green, giving short addresses. meetings were followed by a United Communion Service on Lord's-day, Jan. 14, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Revs. T. T. Bullen, W. Tasker, and G. Robinson, taking part. The attendance and interest increased as the meetings proceeded, good feeling amongst the various churches has been strengthened, and it is felt that large blessings must result from such gatherings. The SMYTHE, REV. J F, who has left Bolton to undertake the pastorate of the church at Berkhampstead, was presented with a purse of gold on concluding his seven years' work at Bolton. During those years 240 members have been received into the church, the debt cleared off the chapel, the building beautified, and a mission chapel erected at Farnworth. Mr. Smythe commenced his ministry at Berkhampstead, Jan. 21. WILLIAMS, REV. D. S., of Blainavon, has received and accepted an invitation to the pastorate of Infirmary Street, Bradford, and will commence his labours Feb. 4. BAPTISMS. BIRMINGHAM, Longmore Street.-Two, by A. T. Prout. BIRMINGHAM, Lombard Street.-Dec. 17, nine, by E. W. Cantrell. BOSTON.-Two, by J. Jolly. FLEET.-Dec. 31, six, and one received with- IBSTOCK.-Two, by J. Watmough. Vick. LOUTH, Eastgate.-Two, by C. Payne. NOTTINGHAM, Woodborough Road.-Four, by E. H. James. PETERBOROUGH.-Nine, by T. Barrass. MARRIAGE. TOOTELL-LowE.-Dec. 6, at St. Andrew's Church, Nottingham, by the Rev. F. Hart, Thomas Tootell, of 24, Birkin Terrace, to Harriet, eldest daughter of William Lowe. OBITUARIES. "The form I used to see Was but the raiment that he used to wear; Is but his wardrobe locked-he is not there. So help us, Thine afflicted ones, to bear, Meeting at Thy right hand, "Twill be our heaven to find, that he is there." EXTON, WILLIAM, for forty-five years a member of the church at Market Harborough, being baptized by Dr. Buckley on Aug. 20th, 1837. Though he was rendered quite helpless four years before his death by a paralytic stroke, a murmur was never heard from him. At the advanced age of ninety-two he fell asleep on Nov. 14th. A memorial sermon was preached, Dec. 3, by Mr. Herring, of Leicester. W. C. Fox WILLIAM, of East Kirkby; fell asleep Jan. 13, 1883, aged 73 years. "He was a faithful man, and one who feared God above many." HALFORD.-Jan. 8, 1883, at Southport, atfer a long and trying illness, borne with true Christian courage, Elizabeth Hill, the beloved wife of Chas. K. Halford, daughter of Mr. Kemp Sanby, of Long Sutton, and granddaughter of the late Rev. Thomas Rogers, of Fleet, Lincolnshire, aged 62. HEEP. The Stalybridge church has sustained a severe loss, and the town one of its most promising young men, by the sudden death of Mr. Tom Heep. Although called home at the early age of 24, his death has caused a blank which will be difficult to fill. Deceased was a teacher in the Sunday-school, Secretary of the Tract Society, and an officer of the church. His funeral-which was attended by hundreds-took place on Christmas day, when, under a leaden sky from which the rain fell heavily-amid broken sobs-his body was committed to the dust in "sure and certain hope" of a joyful resurrection. QUINEY, W., a deacon at Commercial Road, London, for many years, and member for more than half a century, departed this life Jan. 14. His memory and work will long endure. STARBUCK, JOHN, of Alford, Lincolnshire, passed to the rest of God, Jan. 7, aged 72. THE MISSIONARY OBSERVER. FEBRUARY, 1883. Salf as Many Again. IN the Observer for last month we furnished our readers with an appeal from the Rev. E. H. Bickersteth, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, asking for an income of "half as much again"-an appeal which was considered both reasonable and needful on behalf of our own Society. We are glad to see that, so far as Mr. Bickersteth's own church and congregation are concerned, the object of the appeal has been realized, more than "half as much again" having been obtained during the past year. We trust that a similar result will be secured in many, if not in all, of our own churches. Only let the forty churches that have contributed nothing set earnestly to work and do what they can; and only let the remaining churches thoroughly organize themselves for mission work, and appoint suitable persons to solicit and to collect subscriptions, then we feel persuaded that, as regards our own Society, the half as much again will be more than realized. Then the Committee will be able to send and support HALF AS MANY AGAIN MISSIONARIES, besides increasing the number of native preachers in like proportion. To show that such an increase is both reasonable and necessary may we again direct attention to the vastness of the field entrusted to our care, and for the evangelization of which there is no Protestant Missionary Society save our own, i.e., if we except a Free-will Baptist missionary at Balasore. According to the Government census returns of 1881, the population of the country over which the Oriya language is spoken was as follows: : NINE MILLIONS! easily pronounced, but the full import of which it is impossible to realize. 74 MISSIONARY OBSERVER. For the evangelization of this great multitude there are in the district of Cuttack, Messrs. Buckley, Miller, and Mulholland, one of whom is mainly occupied with the College and translation work, and another in superintending the Mission press. Then in the Ganjam district there is Mr. Bailey; in the Pooree district Mr. Vaughan; and the Sambalpur district Messrs. Pike and Heberlet. In other words there are seven European missionaries for nine millions of people. That is to say Orissa, with its vast population, scattered over an area which has been estimated at sixty thousand square miles, has fewer missionaries and native preachers than there are General Baptist ministers and local preachers for the town of Nottingham, with its two hundred thousand inhabitants. Or, to put it another way, if Nottingham were entirely dependent upon the resident General Baptists for its spiritual instruction, all other denominations being excluded, and all the people being heathen and idolators, even then it would be nearly fifty times better supplied with labourers than Orissa is now. Surely, then, in asking for half as many again missionaries and native preachers, the request will not be deemed unreasonable. With twelve missionaries instead of seven, Ganjam and Pooree might, as before, have two each, the high class mission school might be established, and fields, now entirely destitute, might be occupied. Never before, in the history of the Mission, were the openings so numerous or the prospects so encouraging as at the present time. The great want is devoted men and women to occupy and possess the land. Well may a friend write, "England has yet to be aroused to her full sense of duty in sending the Gospel where it is yet unknown. Where so much is given, surely the corresponding return is required. I often feel as though I could scarcely bear to read or realize fully the accounts of those perishing in heathen darkness, because I feel I ought to go or send someone else to the rescue." Had the Committee the means placed at their disposal, they would be happy to select and send out half as many more missionaries as there are now in the field. Whether they shall be able to do this must depend upon the churches. Let there only be provided "half as much again money, then, by God's blessing, they will soon hope to find and send forth half as many again men. In a letter dated December 9th, Dr. Buckley writes: Wednesday the 6th was a memorable day with us, as we had the pleasure of welcoming our dear friends-Mr. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Mulholland with their two children, and Miss Bundy. Mr. Miller went in the Mission boat to meet them at Jumboo, which is on this side False Point. We had fully expected that they would be with us on Tuesday, but hour after hour passed, and no tidings were received. The time for the prayer meeting (6 p.m.) arrived, and we had thought how pleasant it would be to welcome back an old friend, and to greet several new ones with the good old hymn 'Kindred in Christ for His dear sake A hearty welcome here receive,' but as our 'kindred in Christ' had not arrived we were denied the pleasure of singing it; still we thankfully acknowledged, as was meet, the goodness of our Heavenly Father in conducting them safely over the |