but one could not call it a station. Once there was only a kind of hut; one woman got out there. Then we stopped at a cross-road for a man to get out; not a house or building of any sort in sight, and he got straight down on to the road. "It was a little better nearer B., as there was a kind of station. The town is much smaller than I thought it would be, and the school is quite new. It is really a Government school, but I have only to do with the pupils taken as boarders in the house. "I am to give one hour's English in the morning, one in the afternoon, and then an hour in the evening to the mistress herself. "I think at any rate I shall learn French well here, which is the thing I came for. "Madame does everything in her power to make me comfortable; and if I am rather more in the backwoods than I thought I should be, I must not mind. * * * * "We have only one service on Sunday, from twelve till one o'clock; and as the clergyman has two parishes, we only get him every other Sunday, and on alternate Sundays the service is read by a member of the congregation, and then it only lasts three-quarters of an hour. There is one other English governess in a family here. "I have two classes every day, with sixteen girls in each. All in the first class are working for an examination in July next; and as they don't know a word of English, I shall have hard work. Then I have a teacher to prepare for her examination; she only knows a very little English, and besides grammar, etc., has the whole of 'Evangeline' for translation. Madame is very kind and considerate. She told me yesterday unless I went out every day she would not have her lesson in the evening, Echoes from Paris. 29 as she thought I was working too hard; the girls only go out for a walk on Thursdays and Sundays. "Of course there are a great many things not at all comfortable, and the teachers and pupils are not of the same rank as in English schools; but I imagine that I am better off than some others." THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. REDDIE was Mr. and Mrs. L.'s only child, and lived to the age of thirteen. He died in four days of diphtheria. His father and mother were wrapped up in their boy, and all their plans were centred in him. He was not a healthy child, overgrown and overstout. In consequence of this he could not mix with other boys, as they jeered at him, and made him nervous. He shrank from attending Sunday School, but would come with his mother to our meetings in "The Mission Hall." In a most remarkable manner he used to hold converse with God, and he constantly made use of the expression, "God told me so." If his father were kept out late at his work, and his mother became anxious, he would go to his little room and kneel down, and returning would say to his mother: "Don't be anxious, I have told it all to God. Father is all right; God told me so." One Friday he drank some water in the Bois de Boulogne, which seems to have made him ill. The next day his throat was very bad, and he startled his mother by saying: "If father and you and I were all to get a bad illness, I should like it; then we would all go to heaven together." His mother, leaning on her husband, bowed down with grief, followed the hearse which, covered with mother h that his wish might be accomplished, and th go to heaven together." LA TRANSFIGURATION. Et parlant à leur Dieu se sont divinisés. AMABLE LA CHARITÉ. IVINE Charité, dont ces Echos sont l'âme La fille d'Albion, que le besoin exile, Sous le beau nom de Christ, aux pieds de l'Etern 5 7bre, 1890. AMABLE "How few there are who make it a great part of their daily business to behold God in His works and ways with themselves and others. Consider and trace yourself into your own heart, whether often in the day your thoughts run this way, finding the meditation of God sweet to you, or whether they do not run out much more to vain things, and are seldom here, either hurried and busied in a surcharge of affairs, or if vacant, yet spinning themselves out in frothy, foolish fancies that you would be ashamed to look back upon. You might entertain divine and heavenly thoughts even while about your earthly employments and refreshments, but this is little known and little. sought after."-Selected. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. We acknowledge the following with thanks : GENERAL MISSION FUND.-J. W. Geldart, Esq., £I Is., an.; Miss Moore, £5, an.; Mrs. W. Shaw, £10 45.; W. J. Hayter, Esq., £2; per Miss E. G. Mackie, £5 155.; J. F. Thorpe, Esq., 10s., an.; J. Shand, Esq., £10 10s.; Miss Pim, £5; Dr. Warren, £2; Rev. H. Noel, 1; Miss Cape, £2 2s., an. ; Miss Billington, 5s.; Mrs. Murray, £1, an.; Mrs. Wight, £4; ditto, £1 (Washington House); Mrs. Bonham Clay, per Col. Thurburn, 10s. 6d., an. ; John Currey, Esq., £10; Mrs. White, per Mrs. Semple, £2. Per Miss M. A. Hughes, an.—Mrs. Le Gros, 5s.; Mrs. C. Houston, 5s.; Miss Sewell, 10s.; Mrs. H. Thompson, 5s.; J. Tanner, Esq., 5s. ; small sums, £7 185.; total, £9 8s. Per Miss Mabel Illingworth-Mrs. Railton, £1; L. Fletcher, Esq., £1 IS.; Mrs. Illingworth, £1; C. Robinson, Esq., £1 IS.; A. B. Wise, Esq., £1 15.; Miss Wise, 10s.; Mrs. Chew, 5s.; Miss Illingworth, 5s.; Miss Mary Holgate, LI IS. Sent direct to Paris.-C. A., 5s.; Lady Congleton, 16s.; Granny," £335.; Mrs. Chas. Wright, £1; Miss M. Horne, £3 35., an.; “A Friend,” Governesses and Artists' Institute, £2. ECHOES. Mrs. Davies-Colley, Is. 6d. GOVERNESSES AND ARTISTS' INSTITUTE.—Per Miss Hockly— Mme. Gomonde, £4, an.; Miss Ada Hockly, £4, for furnishing; Mrs. Charles Stickney, £4, for new baths. Per Miss Ker—C. B. Ker, Esq., £2 10s., for furnishing. Per Mrs. Remfrey, Clapham—Items omitted in October number— Mrs. Beaton, 10s.; Mrs. Sloaper, £2 2s.; Mrs. Bristow, LI IS.; Mrs. De Parva, £I Is.; Mrs. Guesden, 10s.; Mrs. Hill, 10s. ; Mrs. Thorpe, IOS.; Mrs. Watson, £1; Mrs. Remfrey, 10s.; Mrs. G. Bristow, £1 ; small sums, 95.; total, £9 3s. (Continued from page 18.) Collectors. Mrs. COCKBAIN, Mrs. JAMES BArrow. President.-Mrs. J. B. MIRRLEES. Mrs. BALFour. Mrs. BLAIKIE. Vice President.-LADY THOMSON. Hon. Treasurer.-Mrs. WILSON. Treasurer.-Robert Gourlay, Esq., Bank of Scotland. Hon. Secretaries. Mrs. R. S. ALLAN, 15, Woodside Terrace, Glasgow. Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. Treasurer.-JAMES A. WENLAY, Esq., Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh. CLIFTON, BRISTOL, AND STOKE BISHOP. TORONTO, CANADA. Patron.-The LORD BISHOP OF ONTARIO. WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. Hon. Secretary.-Mrs. E. C. HALLIDAY, 1814, N. Street. Bankers.-Messrs. RIGGS & Co., Washington. The Association of "The Mission Home for English Women in Paris" is constituted under Articles and Memorandum bearing the date of Oct. 10th, 1876, for the purpose of holding the property of the Association in perpetuity. The Council in Paris was elected February 7th, 1877, and, with the Honorary and Official Auditors, is re-elected at the Annual Meeting of the Association each year. The Committee are also re-elected each year at the same meeting. The Home for British and American Young Women, at 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris, was founded December 20th, 1872. It has had over 5,300 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. Honoré. An Orphanage and Home for destitute British Children, 35, Boulevard Bineau. A Nursery and Infant Kindergarten School. Bible Classes for Men, Mission Services for the Poor, and Mothers' Meetings. 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, "Washington House." 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, 10.30 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. { Messrs. J. MUNROE & CO., 32, Nassau Street, New York; 7, Rue Scribe, Cheques, etc., and P.O.Ö. should be made payable to F. A. BEVAN, Esq., 54, Lombard Street, London; or to Mrs. ADA M. LEWIS, 77, Avenue Wagram, Paris. London Office (where Reports and Papers may be obtained): 9, Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street; and from HENRY WHITE, Secretary, 22A, Queen's Road, Bayswater. |