Another object of the Institution is to aid in missionary efforts.  “During the past year one hundred and eighty laborers in the Word and doctrine in various parts of the world have been assisted.”  The fourth object is to circulate such publications as may be of benefit both to believers and unbelievers.  In a single year one million six hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-six books and tracts were distributed gratuitously.  The fifth object is to board, clothe, and scientifically educate destitute orphans.  Mr. Muller belonged to that class of religious people who call themselves Brethren, and are called by others “Plymouth Brethren.”

After leaving Bristol, I went to London, the metropolis of the world.  The first important place visited was Westminster Abbey, an old church, founded in the seventh century, rebuilt in 1049, and restored to its present form in the thirteenth century.  Many eminent men and women are buried here.  Chaucer, the first poet to find a resting place in the Abbey, was interred in 1400.  The place where Major Andre is buried is marked by a small piece of the pavement bearing his name.  On the wall close by is a monument to him.  Here are the graves of Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, and many others, including Kings and Queens of England for centuries.  In the Poets’ Corner are monuments to Coleridge, Southey, Shakespeare, Burns, Tennyson, Milton, Gray, Spencer, and others, and one bearing the inscription “O Rare Ben Jonson.”  There is also a bust of Longfellow, the only foreigner accorded a memorial in the Abbey.  The grave of David Livingstone, the African explorer and missionary, is covered with a black stone of some kind, which forms a part of the floor or pavement, and contains an inscription in brass letters, of which the following quotation is a part:  “All I can add in my solitude is, may heaven’s rich blessings come down on every one, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal this open sore of the world.”

Concerning this interesting old place which is visited by more than fifty thousand Americans annually, Jeremy Taylor wrote:  “Where our Kings are crowned, their ancestors lie interred, and they must walk over their grandsires to take the crown.  There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.  There the warlike and the peaceful, the fortunate and the miserable, the beloved and despised princes mingle their dust and pay down their symbol of mortality, and tell all the world that when we die our ashes shall be equal to Kings, and our accounts easier, and our pains for our sins shall be less.”  While walking about in the Abbey, I also found these lines from Walter Scott: 

  “Here, where the end of earthly things
  Lays heroes, patriots, bards and kings;
  Where stiff the hand and still the tongue
  Of those who fought, and spoke, and sung;
  Here, where the fretted aisles prolong
  The distant notes of holy song,
  As if some Angel spoke again
  ‘All peace on earth, good will to men’;
  If ever from an English heart,
  Here let prejudice depart.”