its important and populous towns.  The mere sending of these brethren will cost a sum of 1,500 pounds; their maintenance will require 2,000 pounds a-year.  The Directors however cannot hesitate to offer this aid to the churches and people among whom the Spirit of God is so powerfully at work:  and they do it in the faith that the Lord to whose call they listen will prompt his people to provide the means by which the brethren shall be sustained.  They have had great difficulty in finding suitable medical missionaries, and they ask their friends to make it a matter of earnest prayer that the Spirit of God will touch the hearts of the right men to offer their service to His cause.

The Directors adopt these moderate measures for the extension of the Society’s usefulness in hope.  From every quarter they continue to receive gratifying proofs of the increased interest taken in their work.  The attendance at the autumn gatherings of country auxiliaries has been large, and the spirit that has been displayed was generous and earnest.  At Birmingham and Bristol; at Hastings and Halifax; at York and Leeds this spirit was specially manifest:  the Bristol meetings, always warm and earnest, were this year enthusiastic.  And everywhere the missionary brethren testify to the kindly manner in which they are received and heard.

God is giving us the means of usefulness.  He is also bringing a steady supply of suitable men.  But the fields are “white unto the harvest,” and we must pray the Lord of the harvest to send more labourers to reap in his name.  To extend our work larger means are required; and the friends of the Society will see that all additions to the present income will be available for the extension so desirable.  Never were the exhortation and prediction more applicable:  “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; SPARE NOT, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.”  “And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people:  all that see them shall acknowledge them, THAT THEY ARE THE SEED WHICH THE LORD HATH BLESSED.”

BLOMFIELD STREET, FINSBURY.
November, 1869.

YATES AND ALEXANDER, PRINTERS, SYMONDS INN, CHANCERY LANE.