plan that leads to success in philanthropy as surely as it leads to success in politics or war.  Those who have undertaken to civilize our Deep Sea fishermen must continue to dare without ceasing; they must educate the thousands of good men and women whose sacred impulses lead them to aim at bettering this blind and struggling world; spiritual enthusiasm must be backed by material force, and the material force can only be gained when the great, well-meaning, puzzled masses are enlightened.  We all know the keen old saying about the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before.  How much more worthy of thankfulness is the man who gives us a harmless, devout citizen in place of a ruffian, a hale and capable seaman in place of an agonized cripple, a quiet abstainer in place of a dangerous debauchee, a seemly well-spoken friend of society in place of a foul-mouthed enemy of society?  Up till very recent years the fishermen were a rather debauched set, and those who had money or material to barter for liquor could very easily indulge their taste.  Sneaking vessels—­floating grogshops—­crept about among the fleets, and an exhausted fisherman could soon obtain enough fiery brandy to make him senseless and useless.  The foreigners could bring out cheap tobacco, and the men usually went on board for the tobacco alone.  But the shining bottles were there, the sharp scent of the alcohol appealed to the jaded nerves of men who felt the tedium of the sea, and thus a villainous agency obtained a terrible degree of power.  I have, in a pamphlet, explained how the founder of the Mission contrived to defeat and ruin the foreign liquor trade, and I may do so again in brief fashion.  Our Customs authorities at that date would not let the Mission vessels take tobacco out of bond, and Mr. Mather was, for a long time, beaten.  But he has a somewhat unusual capacity for mastering obstacles, and he contrived to sweep the copers off the sea by the most audacious expedient that I have heard of in the commercial line.  A great firm of manufacturers offered tobacco at cost price; the tobacco was carried by rail from Bristol to London; it was then sent to Ostend, whence a cruiser belonging to the Mission cleared it out, and it was carried to the banks and distributed among the fleets.  A fisherman could buy this tobacco at a shilling per pound.  The copers were undersold, and they found it best to take themselves off.  No one can better appreciate this most dashingly beneficial action than the smack-owners, for their men are more efficient and honest; the fishermen themselves are grateful, because few of them really craved after drink, and the general results are obvious to anybody who spends a month in the North Sea.  We know the Six Governments most intimately concerned have seen the wisdom of this action, and one of the best of modern reforms has been consummated.  The copers did a great amount of mischief indirectly, apart from the traffic in spirits.  If some of our reformers at home could