and where they look up
to some one whom they call "our pastor," and soon those so gathered
together become co-workers with the parent Church in extending its
influence in the locality--rising out of these movements, the Church at
Hare Court Chapel have now five branch Churches. From the last report
(1868) it appears that there are now three rooms for religious service
for the young, and several others for meetings with the poor and
ignorant; three day schools, and five Sunday or ragged schools; two large
week evening schools, and several smaller ones; seven mothers' meetings;
a district nursery for children and infants, whose mothers require to
leave them during the day; coal clubs; home for little boys, where thirty
are fed and clothed; three paid ministers; six lay evangelists or
pastors; two Bible-women; six paid teachers, and seven paid monitors for
day schools; and to aid them, there are from 300 to 400 members of the
Church and congregation earnestly engaged as evangelists, pastors,
teachers, helps, visitors, Scripture readers, &c. During the year about
120 had joined the Church. The Sunday and ragged schools are attended by
1300 children; the day schools by 900, and the evening schools by upwards
of 400. Besides, there are temperance societies and Bands of Hope, and
in the summer months out-door services.

Another society worked by the Congregationalists is the Christian
Instruction Society, founded in the year 1825, to aid in evangelizing
London. House-to-house visitation was from the beginning and still is
its main characteristic. Its other agencies are lay-preaching in and out
of doors; the Sunday afternoon opening of places of worship; lectures on
prevailing immorality and vice, and united quarterly prayer meetings.
This society, however, is by no means sectarian. At its united quarterly
prayer meetings ministers of the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Independent
denominations join.

THE SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS.

As you go down Leman Street, Whitechapel, on your left, nearly at the
bottom, stand two public-houses--one the Shamrock, the other, if I
mistake not, the Brown Bear. Between them is a narrow little passage; on
the right is a Gospel Hall, facing you is a plain brick-built
Meeting-house, with a door which at certain times opens in vain, and with
a window which is covered with wire of a very suggestive character.
Above the window is an inscription, stating that it was rebuilt in 1790,
but that