WESLEYAN METHODIST. There has been a remarkable work of grace at the Centenary church, Dublin, Ireland. Never since 1841, when the late Rev. Jas. Caughey visited Ireland, has there been such a revival. Rev. Thomas Waugh was the "Missioner." More than three hundred gave in their names to become members of the church. The majority were young men.

There has been a great revival of open-air preaching in several important centres in the Emerald Isle. It is much to be regretted that there has also been much bitter persecution. In Cork especially, lewd fellows of the baser sort were most malignant. Rev. F. W. Ainley, of the Free Church, narrowly escaped with his life. But for the intervention of some men, who rescued him from the mob, he would have been put to death.

English Methodism occupies a prominent position in respect to education. According to Rev. Dr. Waller's report, there are 825 dayschools, which contain 179,058 scholars. The collections and subscriptions amount to $29,605, which is an increase of $328 for the year.

Rev. T. Champness has one hundred and twenty persons employed in his Joyful News Mission; both men and women evangelists are employed. The Joyful News periodical is a valuable means of doing good.

A gentleman who had been travelling on the continent of Europe, described an unusual occurrence at Lausanne. He attended a weeknight service for Italian workmen, at which 230 were present. In another part of the building a French service was held, which he also attended; while both these services were in progress, a bazaar was going on in another large room.

He was

delighted with the various kinds of mission work, though he thought that two services, while a bazaar was in progress, was something new in Methodism.

At the Ministers' Meeting in Lon don, there was a lengthy conversasation respecting the returns. All were delighted with the increase of more than 5,000 in the membership.

Dr. Jenkins, when speaking at a missionary meeting in Manchester, said how thankful he was that the Hon. H. H. Fowler had been appointed Secretary of the Indian department. The honourable gentleman is the son of an eminent Methodist minister, and brother of the late Dr. Fowler who died a few years ago in London, Ontario. The doctor also related that some of the higher classes in India had more than once said, We don't fear your preaching missionaries so much as your other work, but we do fear your Christian women who influence our wives in favor of Jesus, and your medical missionaries who heal our sick. If you win our wives, and by your kindness win our love, we cannot withstand your faith.

President Pope recently dedicated a church at Portsmouth. The mayor, who is a Jew, and the corporation attended. The vicar of the parish sent a letter expressing his regret at not being able to be present.

It is said that one-third of 200,000 people in Cornwall are Methodists.

METHODIST NEW CONNEXION.

The Executive of the Evangelistic Union, recommends its members to hold open-air services as much as possible during the summer months.

The church in which the Conference meets during Whitsuntide week, has been renovated, preparatory to the event at a cost of $3,500. 487201

BIBLE CHRISTIAN CONNEXION.

The following places are mentioned as having been visited with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit: Hatherleigh, Northlew, Crewkerne, Newport, Mitcheldean. At some of these, debts were also extinguished.

THE METHODIST CHURCH. Principal Whittington, of British Columbia, has secured the following professors for his college: Rev. J. J. Colter, M. A., of Sackville and Harvard, Mr. A. J. Wilson, B.A., Rev. Morley Peart, B.A., and Miss M. B. Miller, B. A., all of Toronto. Arrangements have been made by which students may matriculate at this college and proceed with their studies as if they were at Toronto University.

Dr. A. Sutherland, while attending the General Conference at Memphis, also visited Nashville, and preached a most edifying sermon to a large congregation at McKendree church.

St. James' church Quarterly Official Board, Montreal, have resolved to memorialize the General Conference to extend the pastoral term from three to five years.

The Upper Canada Bible Society recently made a grant of one hundred bibles and fifty testaments to the Rev. Thomas Crosby, of Fort Simpson, B.C., for the use of the Indians in that locality.

Rev. J. Endicott, B.A., who was sent to China by "the Boys" of Wesley College, has sent a very

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Bishop Ninde has gone on an episcopal tour to China and Japan, and will be absent from the United States until January, 1895.

During the fall numerous conferences will be held, both at home and abroad. Ten are appointed for August, forty in September, and fifteen in October. Besides these, Bishop Newman will hold eight others in Europe.

There has been an average of fifty converts a day for the last three years in the missions in India.

Bishop Thoburn, of India, has come to the United and is asking the church for twelve missionaries and $50,000.

A new Methodist building has been erected at Pittsburg. There will be ample accommodation for the departments of the Book Concern.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has had a marvellous history. In twenty-five years it increased to 151,272 members. It now supports 145 missionaries, 624 Bible-readers and teachers, 435 schools and orphanages and nine hospitals, and owns nearly $500,000 worth of real estate in India, China, Japan, Korea, Burmah, Bulgaria, Mexico and South America. The society is managed without any salaried officer.

The Itinerants' Club, which met at Buffalo, was a great success. Dr. Potts was one of the prominent speakers. He preached once in the place of Bishop Mallalieu, who was sick. He also delivered addresses on the "Pulpit and Pew" and "Factors of Ministerial Power."

Methodist missions extend to eight

of the ten nations of the continent

of South America, in six of which Methodism is at present the only organized missionary agency among the native peoples and in the national language.

The corner-stone of the Methodist Episcopal church and college was laid in Rome, May 9, with imposing ceremonies. The United States Ambassador and several Americans were present, among whom were many ladies. Bishop Newman and Rev. Mr. Piggott were the principal speakers.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

SOUTH.

In April the Book Committee prepared its report. The assets of the Publishing House amount to $662,055.73. Total business for the year $343,383.43. The General Conference is in session while these notes are being prepared. From the Bishops' address we learn that there are 5,487 travelling preachers, 6,513 local preachers and 1,345,210 members, a gain during the quadrennium of 168,000. The Sunday-school Department is well up-total teachers and scholars, 890,962, a gain of 76,587. There are 993 Epworth Leagues, with an average of_thirty members to a League. The Fraternal Delegates Rev. Dr. Stephenson from the Wesleyan Conference, England; Drs. Goucher and Rogers, Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr. A. Sutherland from the Methodist Church, Canada.

were:

THE DEATH ROLL.

Rev. Thomas Greenfield, Primitive Methodist, England, died at Sunderland, last April. He was eighty-one years of age. The whole of his ministerial life was spent in the north

of England, where the present writer formed his acquaintance.

Primitive Methodist Connexion, died Rev. James A. Bastow, also of the

soon after his friend Greenfield. He attained the great age of eightyfive, having been sixty-two years in he was employed in circuit work. the ministry. For forty-eight years Many a pleasant hour we have spent he devoted all his spare time in prein his company. For many years paring a Biblical Dictionary, which ran through five editions. time before he died the late Premier of England, Hon. W. E. Gladstone, sent him a message of congratulation respecting his dictionary, which had greatly aided him in some of his studies.

A short

Rev. Thomas Woolsey, of the Toronto Conference, for more than forty years was a faithful ambassador for Christ. In 1855 he went to Hudson's Bay territory and endured many hardships among the Indians, but he seldom referred to these. Since 1881 he has sustained a superannuated relation. For some years his health was very precarious, but his place was seldom vacant in the sanctuary, even though his deafness prevented him hearing what was said from the pulpit. He was a good man who held constant communion with God in prayer. Mrs. Woolsey and her bereaved daughters have the sympathy of the whole Church and the legacy of an honoured life.

CORRECTION.

On page 525 there is an error. The parents of Miss Hart, the esteemed missionary in British Columbia, are still in the Church militant. May their removal hence be far, far in the future.

On the same page it is stated that "six young men will be wanted in Newfoundland Conference next June." The president of the Conference says, "Our ranks will be filled without any additions from outside." We copied the information from an English periodical and were thus led astray.

Discourses and Addresses. By GEO. DOUGLAS, D.D., LL.D. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. 403. Price, cloth, with portrait, $1.25.

This volume is a beautiful memorial of a noble life. The many friends of Dr. Douglas, throughout the length and breadth of Canada and beyond, will be glad to have this collection of a number of his eloquent sermons and matchless addresses. As one turns the pages one may hear again the cadence of that wonderful voice, and feel again the deep emotion which his words inspired.

In addition to some of the grandest of his sermons are a number of his ablest addresses, as his missionary speech, given at Albany, in 1868, his Ecumenical addresses at London, in 1881, and Washington, in 1891, the Wesleyan Centenary address, and his stirring fraternal address to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Never again shall we hear among us this stately, ornate kind of eloquence, enriched with historic allusions and poetic quotations like a royal robe embroidered with gold and gems.

It is beautifully significant of the wide love and reverence in which our departed Apollos was held, that three leading men of three great Churches, the Rev. William Arthur, representing English Methodism ; Bishop Foster, of American Methodism, and Dr. Potts, speaking for our own Canadian Church, should introduce this volume to its many readers on both sides of the sea. The beautiful and tender biographical sketch, prefaced to this volume, presents in brief the outlines of this noble life-a story of rarely paralleled suffering, illumined by heroic courage and Christian faith. An admirable vignette portrait accompanies the volume, which is beautifully printed and bound.

The Holy Spirit and Christian Privilege. By THOMAS G. SELBY. London: Chas. H. Kelly. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. 272. Price, $1.25.

This is another volume of the "Life Indeed" Series, and on one of the most important subjects on which the human mind can dwell. We live under the dispensation of the Spirit. When the Church of Christ comprehends more and more of the length and breadth and depth of the meaning of this divine bestowment, then shall new power clothe her ministrations and unwonted conquests follow her endeavours. Under such headings as "The New Logic of the Pentecost," "The Inspirer of Prayer, "The Inward Intercessor,' "Lay Prophesying," "The Sealing Spirit," "The Spirit and Sense of Sin," the blessing and power of the Holy Spirit, giving energy and efficacy to the Word and to the life, are strikingly enforced. The writer seems to be a layman and writes with wonderful freshness and vigor.

a New

In speaking of the need of divine illumination to see heavenly things, our author says, "There is within everyone of us an ingrained unfitness to receive the things of the Spirit, which nothing but a new birth by the power of God can take away."

Where the rudiments of sense exist, it may be helped or educated; but the sense itself can only be imparted by a birth. The optician may aid the natural power of the eye with his lenses, or hide a defect by what is artificial; the surgeon may transplant flesh, and build up some mutilated feature, or Cover over some disfigurement, but no skill can create the specialized sense which distinguishes color, detects scent, or judges of musical pitch. These incomprehensible discriminations come with the birth, and if wanting are

irretrievably so. And the spiritual senses by which the things of the kingdom are discerned issue from a spiritual birth, effected by Divine power alone. You cannot make a worm with its one poor sense see the glory of sunsets and rainbows, even if you give it the vantage-ground of Snowdon; nor can you make a seaslug responsive to the charm of music, even if you put it into an aquarium resonant with the strains of a brass band. There are some things the most expert instructor could not teach a Swan river savage, who can only count up to five. And Christ cannot teach away the ignorance and limitation of the man who does not recognise his need of the recreating breath of the Spirit. The natural man's incapacity for spiritual things can only be dealt with by a miracle, which makes him into an entirely different type of being."

tion of the canon of the New Testament will always be a subject of intense, practical interest. This book is an expansion of one of the Bible Class text-books, issued by the Christian Life and Work Committee of the Church of Scotland, and cannot fail to be of service to ministers and Bible-class teachers for acquiring a deeper knowledge of the mind of the Spirit as revealed in the Word of God. We hear much of Inductive Bible Study. Such a book as this is one of the first requisites for its successful prosecution. This is a judicious, conservative treatment of this important subject by a thoroughly competent scholar. It takes up in turn each of the books of the New Testament and discusses its authorship, its purpose, its place and time of writing, and other features. The

Much interest and value is given to the book by its excellent map and fac-simile reproductions of the famous codices, the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrinus and others, with specimens of the ancient palimpsests, including that of the remarkable old Syriac gospels discovered in the convent of St. Catharine, at Mount Sinai, by Mrs. S. S. Lewis, in 1892. In the discussion of the book of Hebrews the author gives a decision in favor of its authorship by Barnabas, that "good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of Faith-the son of consolation." The book was written probably from Rome to the Jews who were scattered abroad, about the year 68 A.D.

The Inspirations of the Christian Life. By THOMAS F. LOCKYER, B.A. London: Chas. H. Kelly. Toronto William Briggs. Pp. 251. Price, $1.25.

The Wesleyan Conference office has begun a new series of short books on great subjects, edited by the Rev. W. L. Watkinson, which promise to be of much value to their readers. These bear the generic title, "The Life Indeed' Series," a name suggested by the initial volume from the accomplished pen of Mr. Watkinson himself. They treat such subjects as "The Discipline of the Soul,' "The Inspirations of the Christian Life," "The Holy Spirit and Christian Privilege," "The Laws of Spiritual Growth," "The Origin of the Christian Life," and the volume before us on "The Inspirations of the Christian Life."

This volume treats of The Great Realities of Religion, The Holy One of Israel, The Assurance of Faith, The Christian Commission, Great Ideals, Our Earnest of Victory, and The Christian Hope. Under these titles are grouped a series of important sections treating these august themes in a practical and impressive