by his loving disposition, especially to our Lord; and in his epistles love is also the predominating feature.

He was imprisoned along with Peter for preaching Jesus through the resurrection from the dead, on the occasion of healing the lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple.

He was sent as an exile to Patmos, an island in the Ægean sea.

III. JOHN THE MISSIONARY.

John the Missionary was the son of a woman named Mary. He also bore the name of Mark, and was sometimes called John Mark. In the fifth verse of the thirteenth chapter of the Acts, we read that Paul and Barnabas had John to their minister. This means, that he was their servant or deacon, and his duty was to assist them in minor offices.

John Mark went with Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey, which was to Seleucia, Cyprus, &c. At Salamis we are told that they preached the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They then went to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them, and went to Jerusalem. When they were about to start on their second missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas quarrelled so much about John leaving them at Pamphylia, that "they fell at strife, and parted asunder." Paul took one Silas, and went through Syria and Cilicia, while Barnabas took John, and sailed unto Cyprus. May 7, 1877. F. A. MELDRUM.

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It is stated as a suggestive fact, that the Saviour of the world has titles in the Bible answering to every letter of the alphabet. young readers will please give us a list of them.

WILLINGTON.-On Sunday afternoon, 27th May, our juvenile missionary meeting was held, presided over by Mr. H. A. Brogdon, one of the superintendents, when pieces bearing chiefly on the subject of missions were repeated by Masters M. May, E. Martin, T. Errington, and D. R. Wainman, and by Misses A. Glenton, C. Appleby, J. Rewcastle and I. Stelling At intervals, select pieces of music were given by the choir, accompanied by the organ, which, blended with the youthful voices of the scholars, added much to the interest of the meeting; indeed, the whole meeting was evidently appreciated and enjoyed by the congregation. Collection, £1 2s. 4d. Following the above, on Wednesday, 30th, a sale of useful and fancy articles was held in the " Joseph Love Memorial School." The proceedings were commenced by the Rev. E. Wainman, by devotional exercises and a short speech. The articles of attire and of ornament prepared for sale by the lady teachers and others, reflect great credit on them, as also did the refreshments and confectionery provided, whilst some amusements conducted by the young men of the school, including a galvanic battery by Mr. W. Paterson. The stalls were attended by Mrs. Brogdon, Misses Wilkinson, Humble, Pescod, Dixon, Middleton, Holliday, Walker, Dunsford, Siddle, Raine, and Snowdon. The proceeds, which amount to about £10, will be devoted to the school funds. The managers of the school desire to express their gratification at the liberality with which their efforts have been sustained

by friends in the locality who are interested in the religious training of the young.-T. D. STEPHINSON.

RIDGWAY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, HANLEY.-We held our juvenile missionary meeting on Sunday, May 13th, Rev. J. Robinson occupied the chair, and gave a very interesting address in opening the meeting. Addresses also were delivered by several friends of the congregation, and dialogues and recitations by the children of the Sabbath School, which were listened to with great interest by a goodly number of friends.— A. STEELE. [Our friends should report the pecuniary result of their efforts.-ED.]

WOLSTANTON, NEWCASTLE - UNDER - LYME. — Our annual juvenile missionary meeting was held in the chapel on Whit-Sunday, May 20th. There was a large attendance, and a very pleasant afternoon was spent. Mr. S. P. Goodwin, one of the junior teachers, presided; and Messrs. A. Cooper, J. Hughes, and J. Tushingham-all young men in the school -delivered effective addresses. A number of interesting recitations were given, including a dialogue, entitled “Odds and Ends," composed by our young minister, the Rev. E. F. Denton. The financial results of the year's efforts were:-By collection, £1 11s. 6d.; collected by Miss P. Hobson, £3 5s.; by Miss Booth, £2 2s.; by Misses M. Turner, 188. 7d.; A. Reece, 17s. 6d.; A. Turner, 15s. 6d. ; C. Grocott, 13s. ; S. Booth, 138.; M. Booth, 12s.; A. E. Betteley, 128.; M. E. Birchenough, 12s.; S. Bickerton, 12s.; A. Fenton, 10s.; E. Patrick, 10s.; M. Cope, 9s.; L. Hughes, 8s. 6d. ; R. Bowers, 8s. ; S. A. Evans, 7s. 7d. ; M. Fenton, 78. 3d.; A. Bowers, 7s.; M. Gumley, 78.; E. Shackleton, 48. 3 d.; E. Hares, 3s. 8d.; L. Rigby, 3s. 2d.; C. Bellingham, 2s. 1d.; A. and M. Roberts, 1s. 4d.; S. A. Stainer, 10d.; by Messrs. G. Platt and J. Hughes, £2_7s. 7d.; W. Patrick, 10s.; T. Hesketh, 5s.; J. Patrick, 5s.; G. Poulton, 1s. 4d.; making a total for the year of £21 2s. 9d., an advance upon the previous year of £7 11s. 7d., which again was about £5 more than the preceding year. Our young friends are not weary in well doing, but are already commencing determined efforts to realise a still more decided success next year.-Delta.

LORRIMORE STREET SUNDAY SCHOOL, LONDON.-Our annual juvenile missionary meeting was held on Tuesday, April 24th, 1877. Our able friend, W. J. Denniss, Esq., presided. The meeting was opened by singing and prayer, when the chairman gave us a very interesting speech. The secretary read the report, which showed that the sum of £8 12s. 6d. had been collected during the past year, as follows:-Girls' Classes-Mr. Ralph Heaton's, £1 48.; Miss L. Wood's, 15s. 6d.; Miss Annie Wood's, 7s. 1d.; Miss Soulby's, 7s. 1d.; Miss Leworthy's, 5s. 2d.; Miss Heaton's, 2s. 9d.; Mrs. Lane's, 1s. 7d. Boys' Classes-Mr. Morris's (one quarter), 13s.; Mr. Croker's, 88. 4d.; Mr. Barnard's, 7s. 9d.; Mr. Thripp's, 4s. 6d.; Mr. Burroughs', 48.; Mr. Beverton's, 3s. 9d.; Mr. John Heaton's (Infants), 38. 6d.; Mr. Rooke's, 1s. By Boxes-Miss Sibley's, 11s.; Arthur Keen's, 68. 4d.; Mrs. Brittain's, 3s. 4d.; Miss Waite's, 2s. 2d.; Mrs. Austin's, 28. Collected by Scholars-Clara Stoneman, 5s.; Lizzie Woolston, 3s. 10d.; Jane Beale, 38. 3d.; George Raitt, 28. 8d.; Mary Heywood, 2s. 6d. ; Agnes Bolton, 2s. 3d.; Alice White, 2s. 3d.; Jessie Luffman, 2s. 2d.; Effie Hollis, 28. 2d.; Maria Horwood, 1s. 9d.; Mary Beverton, 1s. 8d.; Henry Johnson, 18. 7d.; Emily Ridgwell, 1s. 6d.; Frederick Berry, 18. 6d.; Florence Johnson, 1s. 1d.; Katie Stock, 18.; Smaller Sums,

2s. 6d. Total, £8 12s. 6d. After which the children recited and sung some special pieces under the leadership of Mr. Wood, to whom we are very much indebted, not only for training the children to recite and sing, but also by his own efforts raising sufficient funds to defray all expenses, which he has also done in previous years. Miss Rosa Perry Henman accompanied on the harmonium. During the evening Mr. Wood was presented by the teachers with a set of Dr. Kito's Commentaries in a book case, and by the scholars with a bâton, as a token of our respect for him. The collection amounted to £1 19s. 9d., making a total of £10 12s. 3d. Mr. Benson moved, and Mr. Lane seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Denniss for his kindness in presiding. This, with singing and prayer, brought our pleasant meeting to a close.-GEORGE BURROUGHS, Sec.

SALEM SUNDAY SCHOOL, MANCHESTER.-We held our annual juvenile missionary meeting in the chapel on Sunday, April 22nd. The opening hymn was announced, and prayer offered by our minister, the Rev. J W. Williams, after which the chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Jenkinson. The secretary's report was then read, showing the amount collected by the scholars during the past year to be as follows:-On the boys' side, £16 48. 1d.; together with a collection, £1 2s. 24d. Total for the boys, £17 6s. 4d. And on the girls' side, £18 12s. 6d.; together with the collection, £1 11s. 6d. Total for the girls, £20 4s. Od. Total amount for the year, £37 10s. 44d. Addresses were delivered by Rev. J. W. Williams, Mr. J. J. Harwood, superintendent of the school, and Mr. J. Hampson.-J. B. BLAKELEY.

FELLING SHORE, GATESHEAD.-We held our juvenile missionary meeting here on the evening of Sunday, April 29th. Mr. E. Smith presided, and we had recitations from Misses Jessie Dent, E. Richardson, E. Miller, J. Ovens, E. Sharp, E. Purvis, Joanna Dent, M. Knott, E. Armstrong, J. Robson, and from Masters Samuel Dougal, W. Smith, D. Phillips, R. Ovens, and J. W. Newton. Mr. J. Hopper, of Wardley, and Mr. F. Smith spoke on the subject of our missions in Ireland and China. We had a good congregation, and the collection amounted to £1 48. 9d., in addition to which the children collected by cards as follows:-Misses E. A. Rennison, 2s. 6d.; J. Ord, 2s. 6d. ; J. Duff, 58.; H. Armstrong, 2s. ; E. Gray, 2s. 6d.; M. Cook, 2s. 6d.; M. Knott, 48.; E. Miller, 3s.; Anne Smith, 8s. 6d.; M. F. Smith, 8s.; J. Dent, 4s. 6d. Masters D. Phillips, 28.; W. Smith, 5s.; John Tulip, 3s. 6d.; James Buchanan, 7s.; J. W. Newton, 7s. Making the total £4 148. 3d., something in advance of last year. Yours truly, NICHOLAS PARKER, Sec.

HARTLEPOOL.-On Whit-Sunday, we held our juvenile missionary meeting in the chapel, when "Parrott's Missionary Meeting was very effectively rendered by the following scholars :-Masters Geo. Irvine, chairman, T. Woodward, J. Shaw, T. Bolton, and J. Smurthwaite, with Misses Harold, Bolton, Tait, Hodgson, Woodward, and Hodgson, speakers. There was a good attendance, and £1 14s. 10d. was collected, which, added to the sums collected in boxes and by cards, made a total of £5 178. 7d.-MISS. SEC.

ON Easter Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3rd and 4th, a juvenile bazaar was held in the Oldbury schoolroom in aid of our foreign missions. The room was tastefully decorated, and presented a pleasing and animated appearance. A very creditable collection of useful and fancy articles had been got together by the young people connected with the congregation

and school, assisted by their elder friends. A number of stalls were provided, presided over by Mesdames Harper, Bagnall, and Curry, and Misses Field, Fisher, Taylor, Nash, Nightingale, Whitehouse, P. Sadler, Rushworth, Danks, Manwaring, and Harper. A well supplied and inviting refreshment stall was under the charge of Mesdames Rushworth, Danks, and G. Hinds, Jun, and was largely patronised. A variety of entertainments was provided by Messrs. W. Hinds, Shenton, and Borwick. The entertainments included an art gallery, differing somewhat from the ordinary exhibition bearing that name-a number of scientific curiosities, &c., &c. This part of the arrangements contributed considerably to the amusement of the visitors and the success of the undertaking. A piano was provided, and musical performances were given at intervals. The proceedings commenced on the first day by devotional exercises conducted by the Rev. T. T. Rushworth, after which James Sadler, Esq., in a neat speech, declared the bazaar open. Sales and purchases commenced, and were continued, more or less briskly, to the close. The weather was very unpropitious, yet, notwithstanding this, we were favoured with the presence and patronage of a goodly number of friends. The gross proceeds of the bazaar were £38. A number of the articles, and a quantity of the material offered for sale, had been purchased, and of course had to be paid for. After deducting this, and paying all expenses, we were able to present to the treasurer of our missions the creditable sum of £30. Where all did so well, it would be invidious to single out any for special commendation. The utmost harmony prevailed throughout, and the friends were highly gratified with the result announced-a result which fully answered our expectations.-T. T. R.

Memoirs.

THE church and school of Hartlepool have been called upon in the space of four short weeks to lose three of their youthful members and friends. They passed away in the morning of life, long before the sun had attained its meridian dignity and diffused its mid-day glories. Like flowers nipped by the wind's unkindly blast, or parched by the sun's director ray, they drooped and died, and all that mortal and earthly of them faded away, Or, like new recruits, unused to the keener conflict and the hotter strife, they fell before they had time and opportunity to rejoice in the conquest of many foes.

They were all members of this Church, their names being found on its register, and, judging by the principle laid down by the Master, "By their fruits ye shall know them," they were members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ.

It was impossible in the short period of their Christianhood to have developed to the fullest extent the graces and virtues of the Christly character. They were babes in Christ, and were found growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Their godly life, so recently commenced on earth, is being perfected amid the brighter light and more perfect revelations of the world of sanctified spirits.

These three persons were subjects of, and finally succumbed to, the

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same bodily infirmity. Consumption, that insidious and fatal enemy to youthful bloom and beauty, laid them prostrate, and finally robbed them of health and strength, and life. They battled with it, armed with the skill and medicine of those ordained to alleviate human suffering, but they battled in vain. They each looked for, and expected for a time, recovery to their wonted vigour; but their hopes were alike disappointed and cut off, for as the days and weeks dragged their weary length along, it was evident to those who watched them that the one enemy would conquer all at last. And so it was, for in the certificates of death supplied by the proper authorities, the same primary cause is named.

The first to be gathered home was

JOHN POUNDER,

THE seventh and youngest son of Cuthbert Pounder, born at Hartlepool on 6th day of March, 1853, and died on the 21st day of December, 1876. He was the son of godly parents who took an interest in the spiritual weal of their offspring. As a consequence of religious training at home, and the instruction received in the Sunday school, he knew the Holy Scriptures from his youth up, and was made wise unto salvation. As a lad, he honoured his father and mother by strict obedience to domestic discipline. The castigation given to most lads was not needed in his case, for it is the testimony of those who lived with him that there was no trouble with him at home. No violent outbursts of temper were displayed, and no rebellious attitude was assumed by him. He was much attached to home, and never manifested any of those roving propensities often seen in lads of his class living in a seaport town. The Sunday school was his delight, and the exercises there proved an invaluable auxiliary to parental oversight and prayer. About eighteen months ago he joined the Church, and made a public profession of godliness. When this fact became known to his Brother College, the two embraced each other in token of fellowship and brotherhood, to be perpetuated in all probability for ever. His attachment to the brother at home, who for years has been afflicted, was most marked, and after the conversion of John that attachment visibly strengthened. When labouring at Sunderland he visited home as often as convenient, and he never returned without offering audible prayer for his brother. He was by trade a joiner, and three years ago he ruptured a blood vessel; and three weeks after the death of his mother, which took place in July of last year, he broke another, from the effects of which he never recovered.

In his affliction the grace of God was manifested in patience and resignation. He clung to the cross of the Crucified and found salvation there. The day before his death I found him suffering, but peaceful and hopeful, and so he continued till mortality was swallowed up of life.

EDWARD WRIGHT,

A FRIEND and companion of John Pounder was the next to follow, and in many respects they were kindred spirits. Edward was born on the same day of the same month of the same year as John Pounder, and died on the 8th day of January, 1877. He, too, had a pious home in which his habits in early life were formed for good. He was trained in the same Sunday school, and ultimately, about the same time, joined the same Church. In early life he valued his home, and manifested unvarying kindness to those of the same household. The same disposition dis