It was decided that a temporary church should be put up, pending the time when a more fitting and permanent building could be raised.

Mr. Bulkeley Owen and another friend having bought and given a site large enough for a Church and School, the work was begun, and it was not long before the temporary building was completed.

Let the reader picture to himself a low, narrow, iron shed, holding some two hundred and fifty persons, insignificant in the extreme from without, but made bright and beautiful within, and possessing a handsome altar and suitable fittings. For seating the nave, plain deal chairs were used, and these, of course, were free to all comers. Each chair was also furnished with a Prayer-book and hymn-book, an act of thoughtfulness which has greatly commended itself to the poor.

Such was our little iron church of All Saints; and in the poor district which surrounded it, Mr. Bulkeley Owen laboured for many years, giving his services entirely free. To begin the work he had the help of a brother Priest, and later on the services of a second were secured. The stipends of these two curates, as well as other Church expenses, had to be paid out of the offertory. As this, however, did not exceed two hundred and seventy pounds annually, a large deficit had always to be made up.

Well, our beautiful services began-beautiful partly from the earnestness with which they were conducted, and partly from their heartiness and their congregational character. There were early celebrations at first four times a week; after that, daily. On ordinary Sundays, Holy Communion was at 7 and 8 o'clock, matins and sermon at 11, children's service and catechising at 3.30, evensong and sermon at 6.30.

During the first year, as the school had not been built, the Sunday classes were of necessity held in the church, the numbers increasing very rapidly from one week to another. The congregation on Sunday evenings was soon too large for the little church, and a large voluntary choir of between thirty and forty men and boys led the services with great spirit and heartiness. The seats were of course entirely free; and although the primitive and seemly custom of men sitting on one side and women on the other gave rise at first to some remark, yet the regular congregation very soon fell quite naturally into

the arrangement. It would not be possible to portray to others the great delight taken in these services by those who frequented them, and who listened with such devout attention to the many touching and helpful sermons and addresses given in the Mission chapel. Those who have watched the Mission from its beginning, can testify to the lasting effect it had on many, many souls; and one sign of healthy life given by the congregation was that, out of their deep poverty, they contrived to give thirty or forty pounds annually in aid of Foreign Missions.

It was not, however, without a struggle, and a severe one, that the work at Castie Fields was kept up during the first twelve years. In 1870 Schools were built, though there was still a debt upon the Church. No sooner was the money found for this, than we were told we must begin to beg afresh for the erection of a permanent Church, the temporary one having proved quite too small for the congregation. 3,000l. had to be promised before the nave could even be commenced, and as we had no hope of raising such a sum from amongst ourselves, we had to beg right and left from those outside the congregation. However, with long, patient pleading, and helped by a large anonymous gift, the money was raised. In 1875 the foundationstone was laid by the late Earl of Shrewsbury, and great was our satisfaction to see the walls of a noble church soon rising from the ground. In the following year, the nave and aisles were completed, and opened for Divine service by the Bishop of Lichfield.

But our joy and pleasure in our beautiful new Church were in great measure clouded by the knowledge that he, who had been the originator and mainstay of the Mission, was about to withdraw from active work in connection with it, although he continued to give pecuniary aid for a time. Ill-health and other causes led to his taking this step.

The present incumbent, the Rev. S. A. Smith, was then appointed, and the work has gone on in spite of difficulties. The Church, after many appeals for help, and aided by several special gifts, was completed with chancel, vestries, and organ; and in 1879 was consecrated by the Bishop.

For some time after this, the Mission was worked by only two priests, until, owing to insufficient means, it had to be carried on by Mr. Smith unassisted. Then, for a time, help

came from a friend, who gave his services gratuitously. But now, that help is unavoidably withdrawn, and again the vicar is left singlehanded, with the added burden of a Mission Chapel, which it was thought advisable to put up in a benighted portion of the parish.

This brings us back to the object of writing this little paper. How can any clergyman, single-handed, adequately carry on the work in a parish whose population numbers nearly 4,000-where there are three or four celebrations in the week, daily services, Bible classes, instructions, &c., to be prepared and given to guilds of men and women, boys and girls, besides all the other cares and duties which necessarily fall to the lot of a parish priest?

How can the sick be cared for? How can that house-to-house visiting be accomplished, which is required to make a Church-going people? But the Church has no endowment, and there is no means of meeting the expense of a curate. It is sad to see the work hampered as it is, in this and other ways. Various efforts are now being made to raise a sum for at least a small endowment, and we venture to entreat others to share the burden with us on the score of our common Christianity and Church membership. Will not those who chance to read these few words send us what little help they can? Any contributions will be gratefully received by the Rev. S. A. Smith, Burton Street, Shrewsbury; by Miss Lucy Salt, the Council House, Shrewsbury; or by the Hon. Mrs. Bulkeley Owen, Tedsmore Hall, West Felton, Shropshire.

If only a few pounds come in, as the result of this appeal, the time given to writing it will have been well spent.

into the movement. He wrote to the Scottish Guardian asking the members of the Church to assist in the work, and stating that in the event of the Orphanage scheme recommending itself to Church people generally, and encouragement being given to the small beginning, it was hoped that a suitable building might be raised, into which twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls could be received.

On March 4, a matron and four little boys were established in the temporary Home. Very soon applications were received from all parts of Scotland, and it became apparent that an institution of this kind was much needed; and that, to meet the demands made upon it, it would be necessary to build on a larger scale than at first contemplated.

In September following a bazaar in aid of the Institution was held at Aberlour House. It was opened by his Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. The proceeds amounted to 434. 195. 11d. In May 1877, the Rev. C. Jupp and Mrs. Jupp took charge of the Orphanage, and went to reside in the new buildings with the children.

In 1879 it was found necessary to add two large dormitories. These were filled at once, and steps were taken for further additions. 6,000l. has just been expended in these additions, and there are now over 100 children under the charge of the warden and matron. To the Orphanage, a Convalescent Home and Training Institution for Servants have been added. The two latter are self-supporting. The Orphanage is supported by voluntary contributions. Children, once admitted, can always return to the Home in time of illness, when out of place, or to spend a holiday. Some who have been brought up in the Orphanage have been apprenticed, and return every Saturday, remaining till Monday, so that the Orphanage may be said to be really their home.

A debt of some thousands of pounds has been incurred in erecting the buildings, and the Rev. C. Jupp, the Warden, is going on a begging tour through the country in order to remove this heavy burden which is now crippling the usefulness of the Institution. He has already succeeded in getting upwards of 1,000%. out of the required 10,000l. He has the best wishes and co-operation of all the bishops and clergy, and other members of the Church, in an undertaking that would daunt most men. Where he

gets the use of the pulpit he pleads the cause, and on week-days begs from door to door.

The Institution is situated within a ring fence, containing some eight to ten acres of land, on the banks of the Spey. It is surrounded by most lovely scenery, and is remarkably healthy. The Aberlour Station, on the Great North of Scotland Railway, is within five minutes' walk. Visitors always receive a very hearty welcome, and if tourists and those interested in charitable institutions were to turn aside and visit this Highland Home they would be amply gratified.

Our Work Abroad.

'Desire of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.'-Psalm ii. 8.

E cannot help being struck with the increased interest that has been manifested in Foreign Missions of late. Each appeal we have made -whether for Newfoundland, America, India, or Africa-has in its turn received a ready response through the medium of these pages.

We have found that friends are not backward in giving, when a need is plainly put before them. For instance, it was only in our May number that we made known the wants of a band of itinerary missionaries about to be started by the Bishop of Pretoria, and within a week of its issue each article had been promised. One kind friend offered a harmonium, another a concertina, a third an air-bed, and a fourth a magic-lantern. Strange to say, no one proposed giving a duplicate of any of these articles.

Such thoughtful generosity is a great encouragement to us to place the wants of our distant brethren before our readers, and an extract from a letter recently received will show the appreciation in which this branch of our work is held. It is from a correspondent in New Brunswick, about to leave for the West of Canada.

My present object in writing is to thank the Society again for their kindness. Through their assistance I have been able to provide, with what has been given here, a complete set of coverings for the altar, and proper pulpit hangings, second to none in the diocese.

I have spoken of your valuable Society to several, and I see you have been able to make grants in the diocese, where they were much needed.

Your Foreign Mission work, in thus providing these things, is certainly a most useful and valuable one. Without your aid many a mission church would find its chancel bare indeed; and it is almost impos sible for your Society to realise the value of these gifts to the Colonial Churches. It is far beyond the intrinsic value of the fittings themselves. Our Work has been kindly sent me. Would you now send it to my new address?

We quote these lines, not with a view of recording what is in any way deserving of praise, but simply to show in what estimation the small help given by the Society is held.

Next comes from Honolulu a letter acknowledging a few small things sent by us :—

DEAR MADAM,

I can hardly express the pleasure I feel in writing to you. Besides being most thankful to your society for its kindness in sending me the stoles, which I so much needed, I am sure that we have gained another friend or two who will take a little interest in this far

out-of-the-way Island Mission. This is what we want more than ever, for at present our sympathisers are but very few, and all the old interest which people at home showed in our work seems to have died out.

I therefore gladly take this opportunity of telling you about our Mission here, and hope it may be interesting to you.

Our work in these islands began in the year 1862, the then Bishop having been consecrated at the request of Kamahameha IV. When he arrived here with his little band, he found the natives ready to receive him, and the King had done a great service by translating the whole of the English Prayer-book into the native language.

This good King died a year afterwards, and Queen Emma, whom all English people recollect, was left to carry out the King's wishes. This she did to the letter.

By-and-by the interest in the Mission seemed to die out at home, and for the last fifteen years we have had difficulties, immense difficulties, to put up with, and if it had not been that we had help from Above, the good work must have ceased to exist long ago. Our chief difficulty has been the constant change of workers.

Men have come and gone all the time, and the consequence is that we have but one who can speak the language efficiently.

This is a great drawback, but we hope it will be remedied shortly.

At present several are giving themselves to the study of the language, and as it is not at all difficult of

acquirement, we hope, in a very short time, to hear of good work being done.

I came out here with the Bishop in 1872, and, with the exception of three years, when I was in England going through the course of study at S. Augustine's, Canterbury, I have been here ever since.

I am now assisting in the College Boarding School which the Bishop has on his own premises in Honoltlu.

It is for natives principally, but we have, besides, half-castes, Chinese, and whites. During the ten years it has been in existence it has turned out some good boys, who are now leading useful lives. We have one or two with us who we hope may eventually offer themselves for the ministry, if they will stay with is, but many prefer a more lucrative position to that of a clergyman.

Our services in the Pro-Cathedral are as follows:Daily Matins and Evensong; Celebrations of the Holy Communion on Thursdays and Sundays. On Sundays there is also a Native Matins at 9.30; English Matins at 11; Native Evensong at 4; English at 7.30. Our building is not a very grand one; but we hope some day to have one more worthy of the

name.

The foundation-stone was laid during the time of the late Bishop, but funds not forthcoming, the work had to be left, and it is with the object of getting money to complete it that the Bishop is now in England.

The people here have subscribed very liberally, for altogether about 3,000l. has been promised. This, we trust, will be increased by a liberal response to the Bishop's appeal, for the entire building will cost 15,000/.

Would it be too much to ask you to put a short notice of this in your periodical? It would, I feel sure, help us a little, and every little we are thankful for, I can assure you.

I must not forget to ask you to thank Mr. Whalley's unknown friend who sends him so regularly The Banner of Faith. Both he and myself like it very much, and are most thankful to receive it.

We will gladly give the address of the writer of the above letter to any one disposed to help the Mission in Honolulu.

From Cabacaburi, British Guiana, we have the following:

You will be glad to know that your kind presents to us arrived safely in March. We are delighted. The clothes will suit admirably. For the chalice, paten, flagon, and altar-cloths I cannot thank you sufficiently. They will be greatly appreciated by our people when I take them back next month.

The Bishop spent three weeks visiting my numerous Missions last month. I will just give you a

brief analysis of work on the occasion :-Marriages, 33; confirmed, 129; baptisms-of adults, 33; of children, 70; communions, 489; Indians present at the four stations, 1,776.

I have only just mentioned the above to show you that we are not standing still, and that your gifts will not be thrown away. We are a poor people, as you

are well aware, and often find it a hard matter to keep our places in proper order. I thank you again for your kindness. Some one has been kind enough to send us Our Work regularly for a long time past, but we have not received one for this year as yet. Rather than lose the reading of it I must subscribe myself. Will you, then, kindly send me the numbers for this year, and when I send my next offertory I will include the subscription.

One of our many unknown friends, seeing the constant appeals we make for altar fittings, &c., in behalf of Colonial Mission Churches, very kindly offered us a set of altar-cloths and vessels, which we received not long ago. Very acceptable indeed they are, and we only wish the same kind friend could see them now-cleaned, and with fresh embroidery on them. We think their destination will be the South of India, where they will be greatly appreciated for the use of some of the many chapels which have lately been erected in various parts of the province.

Not long ago the following letter came to hand from Ontario, Canada :

Will you allow me, through The Banner of Faith and Our Work, to thank the many kind friends who supply me with monthly copies of these magazines. I not only find them very interesting for myself and family, but they are very useful also for distribution in my very extensive and exceedingly poor backwoods mission.

I have nine stations, but at present only one church, for which we have neither altar linen nor vessels. I have nearly finished a second church, twenty miles distant from the first, for which also I am very anxious to procure suitable altar vessels, and, if possible, coverings.

We are also beginning to build another small church, eighteen miles north of the second, and a fourth will be added as soon as we can raise the funds.

If any of your readers would kindly send me any altar cloths, linen, altar plate, &c., they will be most thankfully received. My people are almost all of the poorest class, very few are able to do much towards the support of their clergymen, as you will see when I tell you that the whole amount received by me as their priest during the last year is 55 dollars. I have a grant of about 80l. a year. From the long drives

and bad roads, I have to buy a fresh horse every two or three years.

We are surrounded by Presbyterians and Methodists; still, Church work progresses favourably, I am yours faithfully, &c.

Our Work at All Hallows, Poplar.

FEW months ago the Rev. Donne, of All Hallows, Poplar, was transferred to a fresh sphere of work, and the Bishop appointed the Rev. Ernest Field to take the vacant post. The new vicar, finding himself in the midst of a rapidly increasing population of 7,000 souls, belonging with few exceptions to the labouring class, looked anxiously round for fellowhelpers in the enormous task which lay before him.

Now Poplar is easily accessible, by the Blackwall line of railway, from our Mission House at the London Docks. The station is close to S. Katharine's; and a rapid journey through Wapping, Limehouse, Millwall, and Bow brings you close to the parish of All Hallows, Poplar.

Therefore, when the Sisters at the London Docks, received an urgent invitation from Mr. Field to work among the ignorant thousands of his district, they looked upon it as a direct call from GOD to do what little lay in their power-full, and over-full, as their hands already were of similar employ

ment.

And so, dinner-that great event of the day at the Docks-being well over, a pair of Sisters usually start for this new ground, and spend the afternoon in visiting the sick and dying, and otherwise making acquaintance with the occupants of those long and neat rows of little houses of which this part of Poplar is composed.

For poverty at Poplar appears under a very different aspect to that which it presents at Shoreditch and Spitalfields. Here are no

tumble-down wooden houses, and squalid lanes, and dark airless courts.

No, this is not the way that new parishes are built nowadays. And All Hallows is essentially a new parish, to which new houses are daily added-all built after the same pattern, and gradually forming themselves into a dead level of long, straight streets, stretching eastward, and fashioned with a uniformity that is somewhat depressing.

Anyone passing through these streets for the first time might be excused for thinking that the occupants of the neat two-storied tenements were respectable, well-to-do artisans and mechanics, bringing up their families in much comfort and decency; but such a visitor would only have to take a dip below the surface to find a poverty and suffering as great, ignorance and vice as degrading, as those of any other East-end district.

As we very much wish our readers to feel a special and real sympathy with this branch of our Church Extension work, we will ask them to make a little pilgrimage with two of the Sisters as they proceed on their afternoon rounds.

Most of the houses, small as they are, hold three or four families, and this overcrowding doubtless accounts for a great deal of the disease, dirt, and misery which we come

across.

Turning down

Street, our first call is upon Mrs. B. We knock, and the door is opened by a pleasant-looking woman with a child in her arms, who asks us to walk upstairs. We follow her up to a fair-sized room, which, however, is sadly void of furniture. There is a bed in one corner, on which lies a little child sick with measles ; in another corner a little girl of nine years old is busily working at a machine, making shirts, for which, when finished, she will obtain the munificent sum of 9d. per dozen! 'She does them nearly as quick as I can,' said her mother, and she'd be working all day if I'd let her; it's all I've got to depend on now.'

'But where is the breadwinner of the family?' we inquire. Alas! he is laid low by small-pox, which has been raging in the