is because the persons whom you teach here will hereafter teach these doctrines of Christ. This work of teaching the doctrines of Christ is not a matter which can easily be taken up and laid down. If the knowledge of the Christian religion has increased, there has at the same time been an increase of the malignant spirit of opposition. It is said that some great philosopher or teacher has discovered that in all parts of the brain which give effect to thought there is phosphorus, and the philosopher explains with pride and satisfaction that you can have no thought without phosphorus. (Laughter.) So you may say of all the works of God. If you examine the eye and the component parts of it, you may say that without those elements of matter you can have no sight. But it is not this philosopher or this anatomist who can give that power. The phosphorus that is connected with thought and the eye by which we see are the work of God, and without the work of God none of the discoveries of the philosopher would be of any use whatever. All these works that produce such wonderful results are the creation of the Supreme Being, under whom we live and move and have our being. Having said these few words with regard to the sublimity and sanctity of the functions which those who are educated in this College will take upon themselves, I humbly thank you for your kindness. (Applause.)

The Rev. T. BINNEY then offered prayer, and a hymn having been sung, the ceremony was brought to a close.

The annual collation was served, as usual, in the grounds, and was very numerously attended. The chair was taken by Earl Russell. His lordship being obliged to leave at an early hour, he begged permission to say a few words. The course, he said, adopted by Lady Huntingdon is not only an example for this College, but for England and the whole world. Though she had great respect for the Established Church, and adopted all the main doctrines of that Church, she did not confine the College that she instituted solely to that religious body. Her mind was not restrictive or exclusive in any way, but was large and liberal, and she wished that all who truly professed Christianity should be allowed to have all the advantages of education and culture that could be given them. We have had many ages of Christianity that have not been ages of harmony and good-will. In its early days there was an age of persecution, when Christians had to suffer martyrdom. They emerged from their martyrdom with a character better and brighter than before, but it was an age of great suffering and injustice. Then, with the Reformation we had an age of penalties and of pugnacity. (Laughter.) The different sects who read the Bible differently-Luther, the Calvinists, the Church of England, and Dissenters-all had their pugnacity, and, one after the other, suffered penalties owing to the faith that they professed, and which they truly and conscientiously professed according to their own reading of the Bible. Now, if we follow the example of Lady Huntingdon, we shall all agree that the time has come when men, though they cannot read the Bible in the same way, may learn to act in charity and love towards each other. (Applause.) Faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love." I trust that the age that is coming will neither be an age of persecution nor an age of penalties and pugnacity, but an age when the declaration of the angels shall be realized-" Peace on earth and good-will towards men."

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The chair was then taken by Mr. E. Baines, M.P.

The meeting was afterwards addressed by Revs. Dr. Reynolds, Newman Hall, W. Dale, G. Jones, and others. The Rev. H. Allon read the following letter from Mr. Stroud, who has just retired from the Trusteeship of the Connexion and the College, after the lengthened period of fifty years. Mr. Stroud's letter singularly confirms the thorough union between the College and Connexion, and from such an authority-the associate of all the original Trustees, confirmed by the whole tenor of the Deed—the testimony is most valuable and important, reducing the extreme catholicity of the College to a very small matter. The friends of the Connexion may attach great importance to this, probably the last, public act of Mr. Stroud, who, perhaps, has had greater facilities for becoming acquainted with the principles of the Connexion and the College than any other man.

The Rev. HENRY ALLON read the following letter:

"130, Gower-street, W.C., June 27, 1871. "DEAR SIR,-Will you do me the favour of stating on Thursday, at the meeting at Cheshunt, that, had my health and strength rendered it possible, it would have deeply gratified me to be present on so interesting an occasion? From my earliest days I have been identified with the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and now that I have at the expiration of fifty years of my Trusteeship, and in the eighty-fifth year of my life, found it necessary to resign my office, I do so with deep thankfulness for all the indications of union, prosperity, and usefulness which cheer me as I take my leave. Be assured that, although I am no longer permitted to yield my active service, I shall never cease to pray that the blessing of the Most High God may rest upon the College, with its Trustees, tutors, and students, and upon the Trustees, ministers, managers, and congregations of the Connexion.—I am, dear Sir, yours respectfully,

"Rev. H. Allon."

"H. F. STROUD.

Home Work for Foreign Missions.

THE Rev. J. Spencer Hill, Travelling Secretary for the Spread of the Gospel Society, has recently visited the following places with encouraging success.

At Canterbury (the Rev. E. Phillips' Church) in addition to missionary sermons, morning and evening, a large audience assembled in the afternoon, composed of the Countess of Huntingdon's, Independent, Baptist, and Primitive Methodist Schools, to hear an address on the "Mountain of Lions.' Much praise is due to the Superintendent, Mr. Bateman, for the success of this juvenile missionary gathering; as also to W. J. Cooper, Esq., for the general arrangement of the services during the absence of the respected minister on the Continent. The lecture on Africa, on the following Monday evening, was presided over by W. H. Limon, Esq., Sheriff of Canterbury, who showed an intelligent Christian interest in the subject. The meeting was also addressed by the highly-respected Congregational minister, the Rev. H. Cresswell.

Sermons in behalf of African schools and missions have also been preached, by permission of the Rev. J. Stribling, at Enfield, and a Sunday-school address on the same subject delivered.

The Rev. H. Rogers, of Petworth, presided over the lecture in the Congrega.

tional Church of that place, giving, from his long and extensive knowledge of the Sierra Leone Mission, some important information on the subject. In reference to the proposed annual income of 1,0007., Mr. Rogers remarked that this sum expended on native agency, which the Spread of the Gospel Society specially employs, would go as far as 30,0007. expended in the support of English missionaries in that field of labour.

A week-evening Sermon has been preached at the quiet and rural town of Watlington, Oxfordshire, in behalf of the Sierra Leone Mission, kindly arranged by Mr. W. G. Spyer, of Barn House. The minister of the congregation, the Rev. Mr. Le Pla, introduced the service with appropriate devotional exercises. The young ladies belonging to Mrs. Spyer's school formed an interesting feature in the Wellington Missionary Meeting.

By the kind concurrence of the Rev. R. P. Clarke and his deacons, sermons have been preached at Lodge-street Chapel, Bristol, in which the history and claims of the Countess of Huntingdon's Missions in Western Africa were fully described and earnestly enforced. The Sunday scholars and teachers were also addressed on the same interesting topic. It is hoped that Bristol, which responded so nobly last year to the appeals in behalf of Africa, may be induced to contribute permanently to our Missions.

At the conclusion of the Rev. J. S. Hill's lecture at Hereford, at which the Rev. J. Wager presided, and the Rev. E. L. Forster, Baptist minister, spoke, Flavell Edmonds, Esq., made an admirable speech, reported in the Hereford Times.

In Memoriam.

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PARENTAGE, RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND HAPPY DEATH OF JANE WORRALL, THE BELOVED AND DEEPLY-LAMENTED WIFE OF THOMAS WORRALL, PASTOR OF THE FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, EVERTON, LIVERPOOL.

PARENTAGE.

THE subject of this memoir was born in the vicinity of Bootle Sands, near Liverpool, on the 11th of February, in the year of grace 1820. She was the eldest daughter of the late Jonathan and Nancy Grindrod, formerly of the town of Rochdale. Her father by profession was a master builder, and was well known for many years as partner in the firm of Grindrod and Hughes. Her father, dying in middle life, left a widow, two sons, and four daughters, who were, by the blessing of the Lord upon the mother's honest endeavours, brought up by her in respectability and the fear of God. Jane, the eldest daughter, was assistant mistress in Leed's-street School, and was married at St. David's Church, Liverpool, in the year of our Lord 1841, and became, in due time, the mother of eight sons and four daughters, of whom five of the former and one of the latter now sleep at peace with their mother in the silent tomb; while the father, three sons, and three daughters still survive to mourn in hope the loss of a most loving mother and faithful wife.

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.

Her parents being members of the Established Church, she was from early life taught to believe in the Divine origin of the Holy Scriptures, the sacredness of the Christian Sabbath, and the obligation of attending the established means of grace;

which means, at the age of about seventeen years, began to produce those saving effects upon her mind which ever after distinguished her as an humble follower of the meek and lowly Saviour. Although she was thus blest with early religious privileges, which must never be underrated, yet it was not by any saving efficacy in mere sacramentalism that she became a new creature, but by that saving work of conviction and regeneration of the Holy Spirit, whose province alone it is to beget us by the word of Truth, which liveth and abideth for ever. The time of her conversion was one of great religious awakening, under the ministry of the Rev. Robert Aitkin, who, about thirty-five years since, came from the Isle of Man, held religious services in Cook-street Rooms, and afterwards in what is now known as Hope Hall, which place was built to accommodate the large audiences who flocked from all parts of the town to hear his eloquent and soul-stirring appeals, which were blest to the enlightening and saving of many souls. From that period she enjoyed a saving knowledge of Divine grace, which developed itself in a growing regard for all the ordinances of true religion, secret communion, and walking with God, and that practical obedience to the requirements of Christian precepts which constitute the best evidence both of the reality of a saving change and also of our meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light. As a mother, she was passionately fond of her offspring, and always endeavoured to manifest, both in word and deed, that example which it will be well if her children will imitate, and of which they need never to be ashamed; and also that deep concern for their welfare, both in a physical and spiritual point of view, which, it is feared, in no small degree tended to weaken her frail body, which was for many years the subject of the insidious workings of a disease which ultimately brought her to a comparatively premature grave.

As a wife, she was ever faithful, affectionate, and true. For thirty years she manifested that deep-seated regard, growing respect, and unchanging love to her husband that appeared to strengthen in proportion as the tide of disappointment, affliction, and change of trying circumstances rolled in upon her. Was he at any time apparently harsh in tone or unkind in manner, no murmur escaped from her sealed lips. Did a word of anger ever drop upon her ear, arising from either a want of information or misapprehension, no retaliation, either in word or look, was ever expressed by her. She possessed, to a wonderful degree, the grace of much forbearance, deep-rooted humility, and abounded in a “meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price."

HER LAST ILLNESS.

For many years she was affected with deafness, which was a great disadvantage; and also, more or less, at intervals, with asthma, shortness of breath, and excessive weakness. These, it would now appear, were only symptoms of a deep-seated complaint in the region of the heart, of which complaint the doctors for years have evidently been ignorant, and have, as a result, only been doing battle with the effects without ever reaching the cause. For several summers she has been in the habit of visiting New Brighton for three weeks or a month, which invariably for a time tended to recruit her diminished strength, and afforded her a quiet retreat from the busy scenes of the every-day domestic duties; for it must not be understood that, although she was thus afflicted, she was entirely laid aside. Instead of that, she was most active and industrious, and it is feared that often beyond her strength she has toiled to keep her children. respectable, and her home clean and comfortable. Having much faith in her annual retreat, she left home for New Brighton on the 24th June, with a view of remaining a month, but the weather was so cold that her cough returned, and in a week the doctor advised her to return home, and come again when the weather became warmer. From the time of her return, additional means were obtained to relieve her, but all appeared to be in vain. The unmistakable symptoms of

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heart disease were patent, and her strength daily was evidently diminishing. Conscious of this, she bore all with Christian resignation, and was enabled to say, Father, not my will, but thine be done." On the Monday evening before she died, she expressed a wish to see all her children, so that she might, before becoming too weak, give each a dying word of advice. Upon their appearance, she held each by the hand for about ten minutes and addressed each according to his or her peculiar temperament, pointing out their little failings and growing habits, and the necessity. of giving the heart unreservedly to Christ, attending the means of grace, and so living that she might have the happiness of meeting all in Heaven. This was followed by a separate prayer for each son and daughter, and, having obtained a promise from each, she again engaged in prayer, the burden of which was "Lord, save all my children! Do, Lord. Thou knowest that I have long prayed for them. O Lord, grant me my request;" and then, as if an assurance had been given, she said, "Thou wilt save them; we shall all meet in Heaven." This done, she appeared to be inspired with a spirit of zeal, and began to give a word of earnest counsel to several adult relatives, to give all diligence, that she might meet them in Heaven. Children and friends were a 11 deeply affected, and it is questionable whether the affecting scene and seasonable a dvice will ever be erased from the mind and memory of all present. From that evening until she died, her mind was in a most tranquil and hopeful state. When her pain was great, and the waters of death appeared to be rising, her prayer was not to be restored, but for patience to bear all that her Heavenly Father saw fit to allow. At twenty minutes to one, on Saturday, July 15th, she calmly fell asleep in Jesus.

Correspondence.

THE CHURCH AT TENBY.-Sir,-There is a little watering-place not 200 miles from Tenby, where Ritualism prevails, and the Gospel is not preached in the church. A godly layman visited the place some few years back; he saw the state of things, and he considered what was to be done. An additional clergyman was required just then to take charge of a portion of the parish. The good man went to the incumbent, he offered to find the stipend of the additional curate if the incumbent would allow him to appoint his own man, at the same time stating frankly and openly that he would appoint a sound Evangelical man. The incumbent hesitated; in the meantime, he allowed this good layman to have services, in a room that was fitted up for the purpose, for some Sundays by his own clerical friends. The people, thirsting for the Word of Life, crowded to this room. A work of God was begun. The incumbent now interfered; he stopped the clerical friends of this layman from officiating; he refused his offer of a curate. What was to be done in this emergency? This godly man, a sound Churchman, a strong Conservative, felt "Here is a work I have been permitted to begin. I cannot let it drop. I must see what I can do." He heard of an organization called "The Free Church of England." He applied to that body. He obtained the services of a good, earnest, faithful, prudent man. And to this present date the work of God is carried on there. The room is crowded by earnest worshippers. The service is strictly in accordance with the Liturgy of the Church of England. I have known of dignitaries of our Church worshipping there, and expressing the very great satisfaction that they felt in the service, and the profit with which they listened to the faithful and able ministry of the Word. I would say to all interested in the