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The Home for Young English Women, at 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris, was founded December 20th, 1872. It has now had nearly 5,000 admissions, and is open to all respectable English girls in every class of life, without distinction of creed. The house is branched off into different compartments, as follows:

1. A Home for daily and unemployed Governesses.

2. For Young Women apprenticed in Shops.

3. For Ladies' Maids, Nurses, etc., seeking situations.

4. A Sanatorium.

5. A Free Registry for those who are seeking situations.

The following have also been established:—

Governesses' and Artists' Institute, 153, Faubourg St. Honoré, formerly 8, Rue Bastiat. Young Women's Christian Association and Home, 26, Faubourg St. Honore.

An Orphanage and Home for destitute English Children, 35, Boulevard Bineau.

A Nursery and Infant Kindergarten School.

Bible Classes for Men, Mission Services for the Poor, and Mothers' Meetings.

A Band of Hope and Temperance Union.

A Clothing Club for the Poor ; Soup Kitchen; Night School and Free Reading Room, are held during the Winter months at the Mission Hall, 79, Avenue Wagram. British and American Young Men's Home and Club, 18, Rue de Milan.

The Mission Church (Christ Church, Neuilly, 49, Boulevard Bineau) has been built to meet the spiritual need of the Homes, and of a large resident English population hitherto totally unprovided for. Services, 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Tram from the Madeleine to the Boulevard Bineau passes the Orphanage and the Church.

The Home Orphanage, Young Men's Home, Church, and Parsonage are duly registered as the trust-property of the Association.

The Mission is entirely supported by voluntary contributions.

"Remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, when He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.' Messrs. BARCLAY, BEVAN & Co., 54, Lombard Street, London.

Bankers.

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Messrs. J. MUNROE & Co., 32, Nassau Street, New York; 7, Rue Scribe,
Paris; 4, Post Office Square, Boston.

Cheques, etc., and P.O.Ö. should be made payable to F. A. BEVAN, Esq., 54, Lombard Street, London; or to Miss ADA M. LEIGH, 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris.

London Office (where Reports and Papers may be obtained): 9, Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street.

Paris and Continental Y. W. C. Association and Home, 22a, Queen's Road, Bayswater, W., Hon. Sec., MISS SULLIVAN.

Subscriptions for " ECHOES FROM PARIS" for 1888, are now due, and may be paid to the Honorary Secretaries of the different Associations, or sent to Miss SULLIVAN, Hon. Sec. (Paris and Continental Y. W. C. Association), 22a, Queen's Road, Bayswater, London, W. Post free, 1s. 6d. a year; Canada and United States, 40 cents.

TRIDGE & CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW.

ALIGNANI LIBRARY, 224, RUE DE RIVOLI;

CENTRAL, 4, PLACE DU THÉÂTRE FRANCAIS.

S. SHAW & CO., 48, PATERNOSTER ROW.

› THROUGH ANY BOOKSELLER ON THE IST OF EACH MONTH.

ates and Canada, 40 cents, post free. [1/6 a year, post free.

W. HARRISON, Esq., J.P., 23, Highbury Quadrant, N.
EVAN ARTHUR LEIGH, Esq., Town Hall Buildings, Manchester.
THOMAS ALLEN LEIGH, Esq., 19, James Street, Liverpool.
W. H. MAYNARD, Esq., 34, Gracechurch Street, E.C.

W. W. WILLIAMS, Esq., J.P., 29, Highbury Quadrant, N.

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. T. K. STRONG, Esq., LL.D., Avenue de Madrid.

Ion. Sec. of Paris Council.-J. H. BARNARD, Esq., M.D., 34, Rue Washington.

Hon. Physician.-Dr. FAURE-MILLER, 28, Rue Matignon, Champs Elysées.
Phy. of "Washington House."-J. H. BARNARD, Esq., M.D., 34, Rue Washington.
Honorary Secretaries of Association.

Miss ADA M. LEIGH, 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris.

Mrs. F. W. TREMLETT, Belsize Parsonage, N.W.. London.
Miss H. G. HENSLEY, 1, Wingrove St. John's, Sevenoaks.
Professor YEATMAN, 27, Boulevard Victor Hugo, Neuilly.

Hon. Treasurer.-F. A. BEVAN, Esq., 54, Lombard Street.
London Committee.

President.-H. R.H. the PRINCESS MARY ADELAIDE, DUCHESS OF TECK.

The Countess of ABERDEEN.

J. D. ALLCROFT, Esq.

Lady ELIZABETH BIDDULPH.

C. H. BOUSFIELD, Esq.

Mrs. E. H. CHAPMAN.

Lady CLAVERING.

Mrs. WILSON CREWDSON.

The Rev. N. J. DEVEREUX, M.A.
Mrs. W. E. FORSTER.

The Hon. G. M. GLYN.

R. READER HARRIS, Esq.

The Rev. B. M. KITSON.

The Rev. G. P. MERRICK, M.A.
Mrs. W. MILLER.

Mrs. ROBERT MILLER.

The Rev. C. J. RIDGEWAY, M.A.
C. A. ROBERTS, Esq.

Mrs. ALDWIN SOAMES.

Lady SUFFIELD.

The Marchioness of TAVISTOCK.
Miss TUDOR.

Mrs. C. CARUS-WILSON.

Honorary Secretaries of London Committee.

Miss CLAVERING, Harrogate.

Miss CARUS WILSON, II, Grenville Place, South Kensington, S.W.
Miss CAVE, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, W.

Hon. Assistant Secretaries.

A. MASSINGHAM, Esq. (Messrs. Barclay & Co.), 54, Lombard Street, E. C., London. EDMONDS, Esq., Manchester and Salford Bank, St. Ann's Street, Manchester.

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"OUR MISSION HOMES IN PARIS," THEIR ORIGIN AND PRESENT POSITION.

"There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had all came to pass."

spoken;

-Josh. xxi. 45.

T was upon the 17th of December, 1861, when my sister and I were in Paris finishing our education, that I asked an English girl in a glove shop, where I had been making a purchase, Where she went to church on Sunday? "Nowhere," was her reply. Upon inquiring how long she had been in Paris, she said, "Four years," and that she did not know that there was any English Church or Chapel in Paris.

Having had a large adult Bible-class near to my own home from my earliest teens, the longing to have this girl to come and read the Bible with me on Sunday afternoons was quickly expressed to the lady under whose care we were placed, who kindly conceded to my request.

And so, a tiny seed was sown in much weakness; seemingly nothing but a girl's thought of sympathy for a friendless countrywoman in a foreign land-a thought but feebly expressed and too weak to shape itself into words.

During the two winters spent in Paris, fifteen English and American young women were found, who welcomed me as their friend.

Upon leaving Paris I gave their names and addresses to the wife of one of the English Chaplains, in the hope that some one might be found to continue the Bible-class.

Returning very unexpectedly to Paris in 1868, almost my first visit was to the Chaplain, to inquire if any effort had been made to sustain the class; and I was assured that no one had been found to undertake it.

Our plans only necessitated a stay of some six weeks, but it gave time to visit the young women who had attracted me years ago.

Of the fifteen whom I had left, but three could be traced. Several of the others had been last seen employed in the Exhibition of 1867. One of the three whom I found, had married a French perfumer and lived on the Boulevard des Italiens. She told me very sad stories of English girls in Paris, that they had no food except they worked upon Sunday-not working threw them, friendless, penniless, and hungry upon the gay boulevards of Paris. Ignorant of the language, and with no one to guide their steps, it was self-evident that the wish to keep the Sabbath day holy exposed these young women to too well-timed temptation.

Impelled by a strong consciousness of purpose, undefined, save in its yearning to save souls, hundreds of little notes were written and given with prayer, wherever an English-speaking girl could be found. These notes contained an invitation to come to the hotel where we were staying, where some refreshment was provided, and to attend a Bible reading, for which the late Dr. Forbes, of the Rue d'Aguesseau, kindly allowed me the use of the upper gallery in his Church.