in the present marvellous story of the Book Abroad, we have been led on to a work which now never suffers us to forget the needed concentration of our practical energies at Home. The year 1568 has seen great openings for the Word of God in Madagascar, in Abyssinia, and in Spain, of which we hope to learn much more in 1869; but its domestic history in our poor courts and alleys has been one of sorrow and want, and every Christian heart has been called to think on what is the best way to meet their claims. Our Missions have been for eleven years cultivating the blessed fruit of "Motherliness" (see p. 358) in the poor man's home, by the simple and loving delivery of the Message from God through the Bible-woman and her lady; and in the last year another marked Providence has opened the way for commencing, side by side with the Bible-women's work, another useful and Christian effort, which shall find employment for a new body of good, poor women, to be called "BIBLE-WOMEN Nurses." Those who take this name must be women who have the habits and the spirit that would befit the Bible-woman, and who, like her, may live out among the people they are to serve, but who will also thankfully submit to three months’ training in an hospital, and to after supervision and medical direction in their office. They will have many a quiet opportunity for speaking and reading the Word of God to softened hearts; and the way in which they are already doing it is detailed in this volume. During the next year we hope and pray that the benefits of our Bible Mission may be much more distinctly extended to FATHERS, i.e., to the husbands of the mothers already gained, and those whom they may wish to bring with them to Fathers' Classes (see p. 362). A paper of review of the NURSE movement will be found at p. 388, which will direct to its previous details. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Antananarivo, A Letter from, 119. Arabic Extract from Visitor's Book, Babies, A word for the, 239. Bethnal-green Histories, 177. "Be ye therefore also ready," 179. 182. East-End Relief Mission Society, 12. East-End Relief Mission Society, Co- East of London, How the poor live in Em-Yusef's Bible Report, 156. Finances, Information on our own, 97. Financial Report, 289. Bible in Sunday School Teaching, Only Financial Concerns, 321. Bible-work in the Suburbs, 209. Bible-work, What is the fruit of the, 41. Frankel, Rev. E. B., Letter from, 315. Geography of the East-end, The, 9. God's Voice in the Quiet Visit, 296. Going to more than one Meeting a Homeless in London, The, 272. Hungary, Our Bible-woman in, 77, 151, 275. Ingolls, Notes of an Address to the Isle of Dogs, Bible Mission in the, 295. Islington, A Year's Progress in, 172. Italian Bible in the Champ-de-Mars, Jerusalem, Bible-woman for, 306. Kentish-town, Bible Mission in, 33. King Edward-street, A Note from a King's Daughters, One of the, 205. Lancashire Missions, Our two, 235. Light and Darkness; or the Sailor Little Door-step Girls, The, 13. Little Ragged Friends, Our, 257, 263. London; and Ten Years' Work in it, 1. |