the members go in detachments three or four times a week, in all weathers, to their work, and the result has been that numbers have been added to the church. We do not, however, discourage the establishment of schools when no such support can be obtained, though the connection has so many advantages that we most earnestly recommend it. The church is the home to which we desire to introduce young converts, and if our schools have no such connecting link, much permanent good may be lost; and besides, the way for a church to keep itself alive is to receive converts from the world. All that the church spends, whether in money or labour, will be returned tenfold in its own prosperity. If injury would accrue to the church by employing its unappropriated power, which is immense, we might forbear; but every advantage is presented to enter into the missionary scheme, and go down to the very lowest depths of sin and iniquity, and, like a Davy lamp, when in the darkest and most deadly atmosphere, spread a safe and welcome light, shining brightly, even when surrounded by the worst and most deadly influence. Still the question is asked, Can I send my family to such a neighbourhood? The answer is, What is to be done? "Done? why, let them alone," said a good man, not long since. What! to perish, and at our doors! To whom will their blood adhere? Who will repeat, Let them alone? Will Christ, who died for them, or the angels who are waiting to increase the joy of heaven by every one that shall be rescued? or shall the church say, Let them alone? Oh, no! rather let us call now upon God in the prayer of our dear Redeemer, that He would send forth more labourers into His harvest. Christ said that the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light; and we find it is true in our daily experience, for chemistry has taught the merchant to gather up every kind of waste, and transform it into the most useful and profitable purposes, so that nothing may be lost; and yet, in a christian aspect, what a moral waste we have daily in our large towns and cities! Lost bodies! lost souls! But our duty is done. The subject is opened for the discussion of this Convention. May it lead the English heart to feel for the English home of the poor and neglected, and to the removal of "The plague-spots on our banner, Proud England's dark disgrace." Rev. Mr. BLACKBURN, of Pennsylvania, related some particulars of his experience, in reference to the establishment of schools in America; and said, the principal point for consideration, in carrying out the plans suggested in the paper, was to find persons willing to go out and seek the lost. Mr. PILLING, of Bolton, followed, with some results of efforts made in Lancashire to bring the adult working classes under religious teaching. Mr. HARRISON, of Salford, spoke of the advantage of establishing separate classes for districts, which he denominated cottage classes, to be under the recognition of the Sunday school, taught by a person of experience, and visited occasionally by the superintendent. He had known of the existence of such classes, and of much real good being done in them. Mr. M. SMITH, of London, referred to the difficulty of keeping up the attendance of young people in the Sunday school, and quoted some statistics to show that in this respect London was behind America in the number of Sunday school children in proportion to the population. Mr. W. SMITH, of Canada, suggested as one means of increasing an interest in the Sunday school, that teachers should not forget their scholars during the week. In the school with which he was connected, they had children of various classes, and amongst others, the children of fugitive slaves; and he spoke of the pleasure with which they appeared to receive the instruction, and manifestation of the care and regard of the teachers. He urged also the importance of circulating among the children the illustrated publications of the Union, and cultivating among them the habit of singing hymns. Mr. GRIMWADE, Mayor of Ipswich, said he was an earnest friend of ragged schools, but he was afraid that in connection with them they were dealing rather with results than causes-the stream rather than the fountain. He thought the time had come when they ought to carry instruction to the dens of vice and infamy in which many of the youths now taught in these schools were compelled to live. It was fearful to contemplate the state of demoralization and crime in which large numbers in London, and many of the towns of this country, were being trained; and the fact stared them in the face continually, that criminals were being made much faster than, by all the means at present in existence, they could be reclaimed. Rev. J. M'KENZIE WILLIAMS, a coloured minister from Demerara, spoke of the pleasure with which he had attended the Convention. He hoped that the information he had been enabled to gather during these sittings would furnish him with much valuable matter to reduce to practice on his return home. He had been connected with Sunday schools in Demerara for some years, and had seen the most delightful results from the blessing of God on the instructions there given to the labouring population. They had many difficulties to encounter, and many discouragements in their work; he therefore commended himself and his people to the prayers and sympathies of the brethren present. Mr. CUTHBERTSON, the time being short, offered a few words in reply to some of the remarks which had been made. He said he believed the most effectual way to get at the adult members of the working classes was through the children. INTERNATIONAL TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION CONVENTION. The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting was that morning honoured with a deputation from this Convention, then sitting in London; their object being, as he understood, to present a memorial. The deputation was then introduced. It consisted of the following gentlemen:- Baron de Lynden, Chamberlain of the King of Holland; the Hon. Judge Marshall, Ex-Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Rev. Canon Jenkins, of Dowlais; the Rev. Charles Garrett, of Preston; Edward Whitwell, Esq., of Kendal; Joseph Thorpe, Esq., of Halifax; and the Rev. Professor Kirk, of Edinburgh. The Rev. Canon JENKINS read the following memorial :— To the GENERAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, assembled in the City of London on the 3rd day of September, 1862. The ADDRESS of the INTERNATIONAL TEMPERANCE and PROHIBITION CONVENTION, consisting of upwards of TWELVE HUNDRED Members and Delegates, holding its sittings in the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, London, on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of September, 1862. Beloved Friends and Brethren,—We avail ourselves of the opportunity which your Convention affords us, of expressing our cordial sympathy in the blessed work of sabbath school instruction. Many of us are superintendents and teachers, all of us are sincere friends of sabbath schools, and our fervent prayer is, that you may be yet more highly honoured by the Heavenly Shepherd in taking care of the lambs of His flock, and bringing them on in His love and service. Gathered together from other lands, and from every part of our beloved country, we affectionately greet you to-day, and with all brotherly frankness and courtesy address you on that special department of christian labour to which our attention is directed in our International and Prohibition Convention. It is no longer a matter of opinion, but of established fact, that the greatest external hindrance to the progress and permanence of Sunday school instruction, and to every other good work, is the prevailing use of intoxicating liquor. It is beyond all contradiction evident that this use, and the traffic which it sustains, are not only keeping out of the reach of instruction millions of the youth of our land, but leading many to destruction who were once promising members of the Sunday school. The number even of once devoted teachers, who have been drawn into open sin from the same cause, is a subject of constant and lamentable observation. In seeking to remove this great barrier to every good enterprise, we, and millions whom we represent, have abandoned the use of intoxicating liquors ourselves, and are seeking to induce others to do likewise. We speak from a large experience, as well as from the light which medical science has shed upon the question, and, above all, from a regard to what we believe to be the teaching of Scripture, when we urge the discontinuance of every species of intoxicating drink as a wise and salutary act on the part of all men, and we believe it to be especially the duty of all who are labouring to extend the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. In promoting the practice of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, we have seen that the preservation of the young is the most hopeful department of labour; and while we earnestly seek the universal disuse of these liquors, and the prohibition of the traffic in them, we have been much pleased to find that since the commencement of the Temperance movement many thousands of children and youth have grown up without having tasted them. We do not now argue the question of abstinence. The numerous publications issued from the press during the last thirty years, with the living testimonies around you on every side, render this unnecessary on the present occasion. We come beseeching you, for the sake of the millions of the young of our country, as well as for your own sakes and for the glory of God, to consider earnestly the duty of abstaining from these deceitful liquors, that you may be safe examples to the rising generation, and also that you may consistently and effectually train them, so that they shall in after life avoid the snare by which such multitudes are destroyed. We come to you as the friends and protectors of the young, and ask you to aid us in removing temptation out of their way, and in obtaining some legislative enactment for this purpose. We are alive to the solemn responsibility of thus addressing you, to whom has been extensively confided the interests of the children of the nation; we remind you of the words of wisdom: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” We dare not longer delay preferring this request, that by all the facilities which your position affords, both through the Sunday school and with those additional means which experience and present light suggest, you should give to the Temperance reformation in all its branches your earnest and important co-operation. We desire that you may be guided by the wisdom which is from above in your deliberations on this momentous subject; and cherishing for you the warmest esteem on account of your labours of love, we commend you to the blessing of Almighty God, to whom be all power and praise, world without end. Signed on behalf of the Convention, September 3rd, 1862, W. C. TREVELYAN, President. Mr. WATSON moved, "That the memorial be received, and entered on the minutes of the Convention," remarking that he should carefully abstain from saying one word upon it, as there was no time to discuss the subject. Rev. W. HARRIS seconded the motion. Professor KIRK said he was aware that the time of the Convention was much occupied, and therefore he would not attempt to inflict a speech upon them. He would simply say that he was convinced the Sunday school teachers present were so broad in their views, and so generous in their hearts, that the body which he represented might safely come to them as brethren, and throw out the suggestions contained in the memorial, and leave them to think over the statements which it contained. The CHAIRMAN said he would not ask the meeting to discuss the memorial, but he could not help saying how his heart responded to it, and how firmly he believed that, if they wished, as Sunday school teachers, to tell upon the masses which had just been spoken of, they must have something to do with this question. It might not be in the way suggested by the deputation, but there must be something done to put a stop to those practices which were keeping the people in a state of moral and social degradation. It was a subject which they had held aloof from too long, and yet whether they looked to the annals of crime, or to any other indication of the social degradation of the people, this was a question which lay right before them, and must be dealt with. Entertaining these views, he asked the meeting to accept the memorial. After a brief conversation, the motion was adopted, and the deputation retired. The proceedings were closed by singing the doxology. AFTERNOON MEETING. At half-past two o'clock, the chair was taken by THOMAS CHAMBERS, Esq., Q.C., Common Serjeant of the City of London. The proceedings were commenced with singing the eighteenth hymn,— "O Lord, do Thou our souls inspire "In His loved name, behold, we meet, |