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witnessed a wonderful growth of organisation and work among the roughest poor. My people spend altogether including remuneration to clergy ^1,700 a year on these two districts alone, and completely carry out the Church organisation which is deemed necessary. We have about sixty district visitors, Bible nurses and lay mis sionaries. I work with four curates, and one of the happiest undertakings of my life has been the training of young men, after they have taken their degree, for earnest, practical work. I give them ^50 per year each towards their lodgings and expenses. Altogether I have had 1 1 1 such men under me, and they are now located all over the world, some missionaries abroad, and some vicars at home. Besides these, I have had twenty- five regular curates during my twenty-five years at St Paul s, Onslow Square. They now hold high positions in different parts of the country, and still generously call me Vicar whenever they meet me. I look back with great thankfulness to their work here.

&quot;You have inquired about our work here,&quot; Prebendary Webb-Peploe continued, &quot; and in con junction with our work you would like to know something of the lessons deducted therefrom. Perhaps one lesson is seen in how missionary zeal, really engendered from the centre, will spread right through a parish or congregation. On my arrival we had not, to my knowledge, any mis-

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