W. HARRISON, Esq., J.P., 23, Highbury Quadrant, N. W. W. WILLIAMS, Esq., J.P., 29, Highbury Quadrant, N. F. A. BEVAN, Esq. B. F. BABCOCK, Esq. Rev. Professor BLAIKIE, D.D. WILLIAM FOWLER, Esq. Captain DENNISTOUN, R. N. Council in Paris. The Rev. BRAMLEY HART, 4, Rue Roquepine. The Rev. R. T. DE CARTERET, 51, Boulevard Bineau, Neuilly. J. T. B. SEWELL. Esq., Solicitor to the British Embassy, 54, Faubourg St. Honoré. Hon. Sec. of Paris Council.-J. H. BARNARD, Esq., M.D., 34, Rue Washington. Hon. Physician.-Dr. FAURE-MILLER, 28, Rue Matignon, Champs Elysées. Hon. Phy. of "Washington House."-J. H. BARNARD, Esq., M.D., 34, Rue Washington. Honorary Secretaries of Association. Mrs. TRAVERS LEWIS, 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris. Mrs. F. W. TREMLETT, Belsize Parsonage, N.W., London. General Secretary.-Mr. W. AUGUSTUS MORLEY, 22A, Queen's Road, Bayswater, W. London Committee. President.-H. R.H. the PRINCESS Mary Adelaide, Duchess OF TECK. C. H. BOUSFIeld, Esq. Mrs. E. H. CHAPMAN. Mrs. WILSON CREWDSON. The Rev. N. J. DEVEREUX, M.A. The Hon. G. M. GLYN. R. READER HARRIS, Esq. The Rev. B. M. KITSON. The Rev. G. P. MERRICK, M.A. Mrs. ROBERT MILLER. The Rev. C. J. RIDGEWAY, M.A. Mrs. ALDWIN SOAMES. Lady SUFFIELD. The Marchioness of Tavistock. Mrs. C. CARUS-WILSON. Honorary Secretaries of London Committee. Miss CLAVERING, Harrogate. Miss CAVE, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, W Hon. Assistant Secretaries. G. A. MASSINGHAM, Esq. (Messrs. Barclay & Co.), 54, Lombard Street, E. C., London. C. EDMONDS, Esq., Manchester and Salford Bank, St. Ann's Street, Manchester. (Continued on page 128.) ECHOES FROM PARIS. LIFE AND LIGHT. "In Thy light shall we see light." IFE is not to live merely, but to live well." Seneca says: "There are those who live without any design at all, and only pass in the world like straws on a river." Thank God that in the record of all the great works He has wrought out by human agency we find here one and there another, awakened to a sense of their responsibilities, seeking an object and a place hops in this busy world. So, reaching forth in a fervent desire to be useful in their age and turn, they become the pivots round which revolve our Master's gracious plans. Have we ever thought how much poorer the world would be if it missed such awakenings? In the great work among our English girls in Paris, we go back in thought to those early hours when their young countrywoman, moved by their desolate condition, that terrible isolation of heart which comes upon the stranger in the hum in which there is no friendly note for him or her,stretched forth a trembling hand, if by any means she might aid some. She, at least, recognised that "the heart closely affect ourselves? "Our English Girls in Paris." Every word is a link in a chain from which we cannot get free. Follow it in thought, until there steal out of the title the claim with the object-the danger with the situation. Then lay beside it the Apostolic plea for giving, the motive power for all true service : "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. "As there was a readiness to will, so there may performance out of that which ye have. be a "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. Wherefore show before the Churches the proof of your love." I PHILIPPIANS I. 23. E. E. H. KNOW not which to choose; whether to live That would be sweet; to be at rest, to toil No more; no more feel pain; to have no griefs; No anxious fears; nor for myself nor others- * Bacon. that He looks on the while, and smiles infathomable ever moved. d tell to others of His grace unutterable of the life 1 Him life so spent is blessedness, all I choose-living, to live with Christ, Selected GLISH ORPHANAGE, PARIS. litor of GALIGNANI'S MESSENGER. ack of diphtheria (as some of your readers aware) has for the time blighted one of t and most successful of our British and is organized by Miss Ada Leigh. 35, Boulevard Bineau, will be known to aders as the first British Hospital which owing to the munificence of the welli Frères. rteen years, the wards which had echoed sick and dying, have rung with the merry our many British and American friends at present in Paris for the immediate help which the urgency of the case demands. Not less than £600 will be needed to reinstate our Orphanage free from debt. Could the histories of many of these children be realized, few hearts could remain untouched. The last child admitted was found sleeping peacefully upon the cold body of her dead mother, herself a gentlewoman by birth, and a deserted wife. Cheques may be made payable crossed to Munroe & Co., 7, Rue Scribe, for "Miss Leigh's Homes in Paris," or to any of us : T. K. Strong, 3, Avenue de Madrid, Neuilly; J. H. Barnard, M.D., 34, Rue Washington; H. Bramley-Hart, Rue Roquépine; J. T. B. Sewell, Esq., 54, Faubourg St. Honoré; R. T. de Carteret, 51, Boulevard Bineau; members of the council of "Miss Leigh's Homes in Paris," 77, Avenue Wagram. Note. We would direct special attention to this touching statement. The urgency of the occasion is our plea for its reprint. London Treasurer, F. A. Bevan, Esq., 54, Lombard Street, E.C. |