se. The visit
to Epsom belongs to the second class of these subjects. Twenty-one
agents had been there during the race week, 60,000 tracts had been given
away, many addresses had been given, and a Bible-stand erected. At this
latter place, on the last wet Friday when the Oaks was being run, they
sheltered a couple of hundred of poor starving wretches, and for five
hours kept up preaching and praying on their account. Their service on
the Sunday before the races was very interesting. On the Monday they
held a service for the benefit of the gipsies, one of the speakers at
which was the Dean of Ripon, better known perhaps as the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile.

Of the 60,000 Arabs of London there are 20,000 in the Ragged Schools.

The Female and Domestic Bible Missions now number 230 paid agents, each
with her district and lady superintendent, and expend some 11,000_l._ a
year, exclusive of between 6000_l._ and 7000_l._ which is paid to it in
instalments by the poor themselves for Bibles, clothes, and bedding.

The Young Men's Scripture Association has been very successful. Nearly
200 of a Sunday afternoon attend the Bible class in Aldersgate Street.
It has twelve branches in different parts of the town.

Connected with no denomination are six or seven chapels or rooms, where
as they meet they break bread in the morning and preach the Gospel in the
evening. In addition, the Plymouth Brethren have some thirty places of
worship, and their dulness and isolation from the world, which cause them
even to avoid discharging their duties as citizens as inconsistent with
the spiritual life, indicate the little they need be taken into account
as a religious body aiming in any way to influence the religious life of
London. According to the late Mr. Buckle, good people really do very
little good. I fancy this is the case as far as the Plymouth Brethren
are concerned.

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THE END.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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In Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7_s._ 6_d._,

THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED.

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CONTENTS.

Concerning London--Aristocratic Amusements--The Alhambra--The Modern
Theatre--The Casino and the Argyll--The Bal Masque--Judge and Jury
Clubs--The Cave of Harmony--Discussion