of the public houses from some of the characters they are certain to meet with there, and how liable they are to have drink offered to them, and the way in which they may acquire that fatal taste, I declare to you, if I were a working man I would rather cut off my right hand than save myself the trouble of fetching my own beer by sending my little son or daughter for it."

EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE "Austral" reached Port Philip, October 1st.

THE Prize Day at Edgehill, October 1st, was a brilliant success, as we hear it was at Shebbear also, a fortnight later. The Countess of Portsmouth distributed the prizes on both occasions; the Earl of Portsmouth presided at the luncheon at Edgehill, and Lord Lymington, M.P., at Shebbear. Other distinguished friends were also present.

As we have been unable to acknowledge, personally, all the messages of sympathy we have received, or answer numerous inquiries as to our health, we take this opportunity of thanking our kind friends, and to inform them that we hope to be able in a week or two to resume our work in fully restored health.

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Historic Sketches of Free Methodism. By JOSEPH KIRSOP. A. Crombie. (IS.)

WRITTEN in an interesting style, and while the writer holds decided views on certain controverted points, he evidently wishes to be fair to others. A brief paragraph on the Bible Christians-" who have hidden their Methodistic character under a wider appellation"-is fairly appreciative, and in the main correct. We shall not be expected, we hope, to agree with Mr. Kirsop when he says that the Bible Christian Connexion, "though chiefly confined to one angle of the country, has done good work in its day," as if its usefulness were principally in the past. On the question of Union, Mr. Kirsop takes precisely the same view that some of our Brethren did at the Exeter Conference, 1883. "Re-union with the present body, on a suitable basis, he would hail with satisfaction, provided the union was general, not local and partial. The pros pect of losing our churches piecemeal was not agreeable to every one, and the writer is not alone in feeling gratification at the thought that Free Methodism has still to be represented in the Southern world." Union on an honourable basis anywhere we do not regard as a "loss," and one Methodist Church in England, one in Australia, one in America, one in Africa, one in China, and one in every other country, forming one grand confederated church throughout the world, is our ideal of the future of Methodism, and therefore we cannot disapprove of "local and partial” unions, as Mr. Kirsop and others do, or insist on all unions being deferred till universal union is possible, as that would be to insist, in the circumstances, on an unreasonable condition, and indefinitely delay what all

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