friends in Manchester had set the people here an example. Some Methodists in Manchester met together, and resolved to take rooms in eight dark parts of the city, and put men to work them, and every Sunday from ten to twelve of the leading gentlemen of Manchester rallied around these single men. (Applause.) The results in connection with these eight places was that 500 of these poor people met in their Methodist class-meetings. (Applause.) Why could not they do this in Liverpool? He hoped he would be forgiven for making the next remark. He believed the means for all this would be forthcoming if the ladies avoided dress and the gentlemen avoided drink. (Applause.) Let them go back to their simplicity and sobriety, and show a willingness to make sacrifices for perishing Liverpool, and instead of being a dark spot on the Mersey, Liverpool would be the bright spot on the Mersey, and would give light to the nations around. (Applause.)

Mr. Moody-Now if any one wishes to give £1000 let him come up. Mr. Balfour (who was on the platform), come forward, and you must preface your remarks by giving £1000.

At this point, a gentleman near the platform said a lady had just announced her readiness to take ten shares in Mr. Garrett's new scheme.

Mr. Moody-We want £1000 first. (To Mr. Balfour)—Come on, and give £1000.

Mr. Alexander Balfour said he hoped a company would be started from that hour, and that a very conspicuous feature about it would be that the ladies would bear their proper share in the work. He was quite ready to say that he should take 250 shares-(applause)

Mr. Moody-At how much a share?

Mr. Balfour-To begin with.

(Laughter and applause.) Mr. Moody-At £10 a share? (Great laughter.)

Mr. Balfour-There's no getting behind Mr. Moody. He is too many for me. There were a great many things to be done, but he did not want to flinch from doing his fair share of duty; but he could not escape from other obligations, and he hoped, when more money was needed, he should be able to give more money to the enterprise. Mr. Balfour proceeded to speak upon the desirability of having a visitation of every house in Liverpool.

His speech was followed by a hymn, during the singing of which

Mr. Moody left the platform and went into the body of the hall. On returning to his seat, he said Mr. Robert Lockhart promised to give £500 to this scheme if the money required were raised within thirty days.

The Rev. Mr. Baugh, Liverpool, looked with hope to the success of the project.

Mr. John Houghton advocated personal interest in missions of the kind spoken of.

Mr. W. P. Lockhart, who was received with applause, said he thought there was something of greater importance than the meanɛ, and that was the spirit in which they were to seek to reach the masses. If they were to reach the masses it must be by personal following of the Lord Jesus, by personal self-denial, and by personally and daily taking up the cross. They must have men filled with the Holy Ghost-men with their hearts on fire-men and women going in multitudes over the town, going at the work again and again, day after day, month after month, year after year, exercising a spirit of self-denial, following the Master, taking up their cross daily. (Applause.)

The Rev. Dr. Knox, Belfast; Mr. D. M. Drysdale, the Rev. A. M'Aulay, Mr. Campbell White (Glasgow), the Rev. W. H. M. H. Aitken, and the Rev. R. H. Lundie, took part in the discussion. The last-named gentleman, speaking of "British Workmen's Publichouses," said he thought they were just about the things most needed for their country, and above all things for this drunken Liverpool. (Hear, hear.)

WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THE UNSAVED

MASSES?

[The following is the paper by Mr. Moody, referred to in a previous page.]

"I HAVE but little time at my disposal, but I cannot help laying the grave question before the Christians of Britain, with the earnest prayer that they may once more give it their most urgent attention. I cannot presume here in any way to answer it, but for the last week or two it has lain so heavily on my heart, that I am unable to refrain from asking God's people to join me in solemnly facing

this dark and terrible problem. Some say this is just the old story of religious destitution, the old appeal on behalf of home missions, which every one knows about, and is sick of. But I venture to say that very few of us know anything about the story, old and sickening as it is. My friends, there is a spiritual famine in this Christian land of yours that I for one had never even dreamed of. Here, for instance, in this town of Sheffield, I am told there are 150,000 people who not only never go near a place of worship, but for whom there is actually no church accommodation provided, even if they were willing to take advantage of it. Thus there are in all, say 80 churches and chapels, which, allowing an average of 1000 seats to each, give accommodation for 80,000 people. Supposing each of these to be three-fourths full, you have 60,000 church-going people out of a population of 260,000. It leaves thus a very wide margin to say that there are 150,000 souls in this one town without even the possibility of the means of grace. A moment's reflection upon the appalling state of things revealed by these figures-and I am told that England generally is in much the same condition-is enough to make every one of us who names the name of Christ humble himself in the sight of God. And it seems to me that if there be upon God's earth one blacker sight than these thousands of Christless and graceless souls, it is the thousands of dead and slumbering Christians living in their very midst, rubbing shoulders with them every day upon the street, and never as much as lifting up a little finger to warn them of death, and eternity, and judgment to come. Talk of being sickened at the sight of the world's degradation! Rather let those of us who are Christians hide our faces because of our own, and pray God to deliver us from the guilt of the world's blood. I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifference.

But this is a mere re-stating of the difficulty. Let us pass round the question. What is to be done for the masses? Let us pass it round from city to city, from village to village, from heart to heart; and let us all contribute to the answering of it, and contribute in deeds as well as in words. Let every man and woman feel that the question is not for ministers, and elders, and deacons, but for them Especially would I lay it upon those who have never worked befor to ask God to show them their own personal duty in this solemn

matter. It is not enough that we give our means; we must give ourselves. I may hire a man to do some work; but I can never hire a man to do my work. Alone, before God, I must answer for that; and so must we all. It is not enough that you say "My work has been to hire another man's work"; for that hired man's work is, after all, only his own work, and you have helped him to do it better; and his work is counted to his own account, and can never be registered on yours. To help another man to do God's work is well; but it can never take the place of your own work for God; and are there not hundreds of Christians whom God has blessed with wealth and influence sheltering their conscienccs to-day under the purchased labour of a hired substitute? We think it is cheap service-paying a missionary to live for us his short-lived life in the deserts of India; or a couple of Bible-women to do our work in the hovels of the poor at home! But oh! it is very, very dear if it take the place of the work which God has given to 66 every man" to do. 66 Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what sort it is." It is a great truth that the world is saved by the substitution of Christ for sinners; but it is likewise a very solemn thought that the world is being lost by the substitution of one Christian's work for another's.

Next to this great evil of employing substitutionary labour instead of our own, there exists a grievance scarcely less injurious to the spread of God's work among the hearts of the people. Many a man, without neglecting his own work in the least, has the means of employing others in addition, and for this purpose it is no uncommon idea that anybody will do! For work among the masses, it is argued, there is nothing like selecting those who have themselves been born and bred within the sphere of the masses. Now this is a fatal mistake. God's servants ought to be the flower of the land. They ought to be chosen from amongst the best that a nation has; and one of the main reasons why the masses are as yet almost untouched by the power of the gospel of Christ is, that we send the wrong men to reach them.

I have just one more suggestion to make-for my writing now is more with the intention of once more throwing down the gauntlet at the door of all true Christian hearts; and my own contribution to the question can be but a very humble one.

After good men, it seems to me that we want good methods. Above all, we want new methods. Not at all, however, that the old methods are bad, but simply that they are old. The best old methods are, perhaps, as good as, or better than, any new ones; but they are old methods, and that is enough. The world has got tired of them. It will not have anything more to do with them-the worse for the world, perhaps, you say, but that cannot alter the fact. Men are crying out for novelty. Perhaps a better word would be "variety." Well, let them have variety. They want it; in everything else they get it; why not in this? If we cannot win the people by old, plainly enough the only reasonable line of action is to try new means; and if the new bait does not succeed, let us try again; and if that does not do, let us go on trying till we find a bait that does.

My friends, in a work like this we are bound to succeed. It may indeed require a long, long struggle, but God will give each one of us who begins it grace enough to pursue it. And let those who are in earnest about it begin now. Let there be no waiting till some other man takes some other step in some other town. This is one of Satan's tricks for casting responsibility off the shoulders which should bear it. And let us be silent about our inability. If, as humble followers of the Master, we are really willing to take up this work, God will take care to stand by us. Only let us be earnest, and selfsacrificing, and single-eyed for His glory. Otherwise it is useless to begin. He can excuse weakness, and work through it; He can excuse blunders, and over-rule them for good; but with halfheartedness, and lukewarmness, and indifference to the value of immortal souls, we may as well make up our minds that He can do nothing. So if we mean to take up this solemn question for ourselves, let there be no half measures. Let us count the cost honestly, not in the poor light of this shadow of a life of ours, but with the great measure of eternity; and if, after all, God pleases to lay the burden of these poor souls upon our threshold, let us fall upon our knees and say, Amen.

My friends, it is no melancholy duty. It is no misfortune to find out that God wants us. Those who have this idea of it will be little use to Him, and they will not be long in discovering some means of getting out of it. The excuses which Satan puts into the sinner's heart for rejecting Christ are nothing to those with which he tempts the Christian to abstain from Christian work. We have thousands and.