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NOTICES ON " HARBOUR LIGHTS,"

A PRIZE ESSAY, WON BY A CONWAY Boy.

“I cannot but hope and think that the little volume will prove very useful, and do much to promote an interest in our seamen.”

THE BISHOP OF OSSORY, The Palace, Kilkenny.

"THE EARL OF ABERDEEN begs to thank the Directors of the
British and Foreign Sailors' Society for their courtesy in sending him
a copy of their recently published "Harbour Lights, which doubtless
will be of much use in making more widely known the work and
objects of the Society.”

Haddo House, Aberdeen.
“I have no doubt that your little book which is so readable will do
good service to the cause which it is meant to forward. I have derived
more information from it than I have ever had respecting seamen's
Missions."

THE DEAN OF FERNS, The Deanery, Gorey. JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.A. (Rob Roy), writes :-6.Harbour Lights !' what a capital title! One who has sailed and paddled, entirely alone, through more than ten thousand miles of sea and lake and river, heartily welcomes this charming book in blue.”

Post free 1s. Order at once, as foot of page.

Second Edition. Reduced to 1s. Large discount if over 12 are ordered.

"Thanks for your “Harbour Lights ;" I think it a very sensible
and useful book, and gives a very clear idea of how to deal with
seamen."

C. BENSON, Esq.,
[This gentleman, we are told, has been many years at sea.] Shrewsbury.

“Mr. Fry evinces an intelligent and earnest sympathy with our sailors, and his work is greatly fitted to awaken practical interest in the efforts now being made for their spiritual welfare.”

Christian Irishman, Edited by Rev. HAMILTON MAGEE.

MR. W. D. Potts, Secretary of the Newcastle Sailors' Society,
writes :-“I have read · Harbour Lights ;' it is very good.”

MR. WM. EVAN FRANKS, Secretary St. Andrew's Waterside Church
Mission, writes :-“I read the Essay with much interest."

THE COMMANDER OF SCHOOL SHIP "CONWAY," the Mersey :-
“'Harbour Lights' has afforded me much pleasant and instructive
reading, and one notices everywhere the hand of one who knows.'”.

The Belfast News Letter :-.Harbour Lights,' we trust, will find
many readers. It is designed especially for the benefit of sailors, and
it is written in a style which is certain to be appreciated by those who
go down to the sea in ships.”

To readers of " Chart & Compass."

Please post to me at the undermentioned address copies of “ Harbour
Lights," for which I enclose Postal Order for

, or Cheque,
or Stamps.
Name (Mr., Mrs., or Miss)
Address
EDITOR, Sailors' Institute, Mercer Street, Shadwell,

London, E.
If you desire, you can order through your bookseller. Publisher,
S. W. PARTRIDGE & Co.

TOWARDS THE SPECIA:L £1,000.
Sums given and promised up to Sept. 16, 1885.
£ s. d.

£ s. d.
Rev. C. H. Spurgeon .... 5 0 0 Tyne Steam Shipping Co... 2 20
Rev. W. Tyler, D.D....... 5 OO ASoldiers' and Sailors'Friend 100
George Williams, Esq. .... 55 o The Dowager Countess of
J. McCall, Esq. ..........

I I O Aberdeen .............. 5 0 Coll. Abney Cong. Church I 18 6 C. Russell, Esq., M.P..... 100 S. Linder, Esq. .......... 5 O O T. H. Worringham, Esq... O 100 James Clarke, Esq. ........ oo J. Macgregor, Esq......... 5 00 George Cadbury, Esq. ...100 Brown and Co. .......... 006 A little boy .......

50 R. S. Donkin, Esq. ...... 10 A little girl .............. 0 0 5 R. Cory, Esq. ............ 1 5 0

0 0 1 Ed. Rawlings, Esq., annu

Total......£71 8 6 ally for three years, towards a Missionary at Venice ................ 25 0 0

EDITOR'S NOTES AND NOTICES. This month we publish the second and cheaper edition of Harbour Lights. There are a few additions, including the Wreck Chart of the Royal National Life Boat Society, specially printed for it. The price is reduced to one shilling, and a liberal discount allowed on orders of twelve and upwards. We would like to see the edition sold out at once. The writer is one of the few men, who, after being a sailor took a university degree. We hope other sailors will be encouraged to pursue their studies. A good present for a sailor, or a friend of sailors. Perhaps you could sell a few copies.

We commend to our readers Sunday Thoughts. We know no other magazine which gives monthly a page to God's precious Word without note or comment. Every Sunday morning we read the text, and so our thoughts naturally go out in prayer for our seamen and their missionaries, and our dear fellow workers with the magazine. We have much blessing in this fellowship. Brother Janson blends these Scriptures with a deep insight, spiritual discernment which often throws more light on the deep things of God than many a sermon.

MR. JAMES NOBLE, of Glasgow, writes, “I beg to sincerely thank you for the Chart and Compass which you have been good enough to send me every month I find its contents very interesting.

PENNY TESTAMENT.–From July 16th, 1884, to March 31st, 1885, there were issued from the British and Foreign Bible Society, 955,169 copies of the Penny Testament.

WRITES the author of the Negro Race in America—" That (to say nothing of the numbers who perished in the transit) no less than 15,000,000 of native Africans were brought across the seas to feed the slave market during the continuance of the system.”.

“ MR. JAMES CADBURY, of Banbury, a much valued friend, now about eighty years of age, has been recorded as a minister of the Gospel by his monthly meeting.” Never too old to be either saved, or to become Christ's minister. But we urge all to begin early.

EDITOR'S NOTES AND NOTICES.

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MR. BRIGHT ON PEACEMAKERS.-Mr. Graham Chester, as a linguistic effort, having sent Mr. Bright the Scriptural verse commencing “ Blessed are the peacemakers," in nine languages, Mr. Bright replied, “The verse is known among all Christian peoples, and yet not one of them seems to accept it, or to act upon it. We ourselves, perhaps the most Christian nation, or professing to be so, are not less given to war than other nations. I hope the future may be better than the past.”

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN FOUR DAYS.—“ A few years ago the passage to New York was a good one which was accomplished in from ten to twelve days. Now the Atlantic is traversed in less than a week, and Mr. William Pearce looks confidently forward to the time when he will be able to produce vessels to make the journey in four days. The present great increase in speed has not been accomplished by finer lines or proportions in ships, but entirely by the immense engines that force the vessels through the water, and when this is considered, the benefit accruing from small consumption of coal can be clearly understood.”.

Loss OF LIFE INCREASING.–The Daily News quoting from the Nautical Magazine of July, 1885, says :-“We understand that the evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Shipping is unanimously accepted as establishing the fact the loss of life at sea has materially increased during the last ten years, out of proportion to the increase of shipping. The causes of this increase remain to be investigated.”

"FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 3.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Grant, Esq., now Her Majesty's Consul at Naples, to be Her Majesty's Consul for South Italy, including the Southern Adriatic and Southern Mediterranean Region, to reside at Naples." We are pleased to see that Consul Grant has received this further extended appointment. He takes a great interest in our Bethel, &c.

MANY thanks are due and hereby given for magazines, books, papers, literature, old Bibles, &c., for distribution, sent to the office. Large quantities needed (carriage paid) for our many ports and ships. Received up to Oct. 12th, 1885, five monthly parts of Christian (Guildford), monthly letter (Leamington), parcel of Sword and Trowel, &c. (St. John's Wood), parcel of Books by London Parcel Delivery Company.

We require the following odd numbers of Chart and Compass to complete for binding. Will friends kindly send any odd magazines : one January, and two February, 1881; one October, 1882; five February, and twelve July, 1883 ; twenty February, 1884 ; forty October, 1885.

“ Chart and Compass” receipts, from Sept. 13th to Oct. 12th, 1885.
£ s. d

£ s. d. Brought forward ..........292 15 8 Ham, Mr. J. T., Antwerp 0 4 2 B. &. F. Sailors' Society .. 6 10 10 Hoskin, Mr. E. R., London II 14 6 Burrows, Mr. S., Naples .. I 19 8 Mattsson, Mr. C., do....... 0 0 8 Custard, Capt., London.... 0

Latimer Sunday School (sub) O 10 Fearn, Mr. B., Barrow .... 0 8 4 Sharples, Capt. E., Cardiff o 8 2 Giffin, Mr. W., Limerick .. 0 2 6 Sundry Sales ............ 0 4 4 Gilpin, Mr. R., Yarmouth.. i 80 Gilbert, Mr. J., Dover .... 0 4 2

Total ............ £317 2 8

SUNDAY THOUGHTS FOR SAILORS

FROM THE WORD OF GOD.

“Be not faithless, but believing.”—JOHN XX. 27.

"THIS MAN" SUNDAY, November 1st.-" Truly THIS MAN was the Son of God.”-Roman Centurion, MARK xv. 39. "THIS MAN doeth many miracles, "-Chief Priests and

Pharisees, JOHN xi. 47. SUNDAY, November 8th,—“IfTHIS MAN were not of God, He could do nothing." -Blind man healed, John ix. 33 “Never man spake like THIS MAN."-Officers

of Chief Priests, JOHN vii. 46. SUNDAY, November 15th.-"I find no

fault in THIS MAN.”—Roman governor, Pilate, LUKE Xxii. 4, 6 THIS MAN hath done nothing amiss." Penitent Male

factor, Luke xxiii. 41, SUNDAY, November 22nd.—THIS MAN

receiveth sinners."- Pharisees Scribes, LUKE XV. 2. « Through THIS MAN is preached unto you the forgiveness of

sins.”-St. Paul. ACTS xiii. 38. SUNDAY, November 29th,-"THIS MAN after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool.”— St. Paul, HEB X. 12. 13.

Those interested in "Chart and Compass” would be very grateful for the prayers of all who read these « Sunday Thoughts,” that they, and all God's word and truth in the Magazine, may be greatly blessed to many Sailors. Sunday Mornings would be a good time for such.

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