materially assisted in the erection or
purchase of 87 chapels--representing a contribution from it in grants and
free loans of 110,000_l._ towards an aggregate outlay of 360,000_l._, and
providing (exclusive of intended galleries) nearly 80,000 sittings for
adults. Dividing the 21 years of the Society's history into three
periods of seven years each, in the first period its list comprises 17
chapels, in the second 26, and in the third 44. The Society is at
present engaged, with Mr. S. Morley, M.P., in the erection of 24 chapels,
to each of which Mr. Morley contributes 500_l._, and the Society 500_l._,
half of the last being free loans. The success of the Society is largely
owing to its loan fund, now amounting to 11,006_l._ 19_s._, from which
loans are made free of interest to committees engaged in the erection of
chapels. This fund remains intact, and will be carefully preserved for
the object. The grant fund is, however, just now nearly exhausted, while
the liabilities of the Society on this account reach 2000_l._ Among
other particulars, it may be stated that the Society has been
instrumental in saving from extinction the two metropolitan chapels of
George Whitefield--Tottenham Court Road Chapel, and the Tabernacle,
Moorfields. Indeed, with the exception of Spa Fields Chapel, the
Countess of Huntingdon's followers may be said to be absorbed in the
Congregational body.

The London Congregational Association has four District Missions. It has
aided in planting and sustaining eight Churches and Missions in four
districts. They ask 1000_l._ a year, with which, aided by local support,
they undertake to plant ten new district Missions in spiritually
destitute localities, and sustain them until they are enabled to support
themselves. As an illustration of what may be done in this way I give
the following account of the District Mission established by the Church
and Congregation under the care of the Rev. Dr. Raleigh, of Hare Court
Chapel, Canonbury, as drawn up by the Rev. J. H. Wilson, of the Home
Missionary Society.

The parent Church selected necessitous districts, in which they have
opened schools and mission-rooms; in these a number of the congregation
begin to labour as teachers, visitors, evangelists, &c. The result is
the early formation of a branch Church, where the poor people secure all
the privileges of Christian fellowship, and the fine feeling of a
Church-home, a place which they call "our Chapel,"