think it would be right to employ the Marylebone Branch frequently without ever sending it a subscription, yet you might well send larger sums to encourage the uncheered workers now coping with straggling and neglected districts. Therefore, I say, send your money to the Central Council, that the "C. O. S." may be strengthened throughout London and the country.

178. But don't think it is your money only I want. I want yourselves. I want young men, gentlemen, and people of leisure to come to me; make my house an office if you like; and I am prepared, with my brother clergyman, to conduct all the correspondence necessary to put any of you into communication with the "C. O. S.," and to help you in this work of finding right work, and doing right work.

I want you to come and say, What can we do? Where shall we go? May we be almoners? May we go and inquire and report for the society? May we stand there, and be the friends and counsellors of the poor? We want to be fitted for some little sphere of usefulness

for two or three hours a day; can you tell us where to go?

Yes; you can take up and watch or inspect cases in Marylebone. You can go to Holborn, and the district there; or St. George's-in-theEast; or a dozen other places where help is wanted, where heart and mind, and kind and intelligent sympathy are wanted.

Will you undertake a poor case? Do you want to know some one you can safely give your alms to? I will give you a dozen such. Have you a poor case? I will give you, if you will, the best attainable advice. I think I can promise to tell you what ought to be done with such an one. We refer him to some society or agency, or person who will meet his wants, and set him up or tide him over. And if I cannot give you advice, I will get it, and the best possible advice, upon any subject connected with the poor; and we can deal together with other cases. Respectable people who have been brought down in the world, and don't want to make their affairs known-we can combine to sift quietly, and help these substantially, if you are only in earnest.

176. Therefore, if you have cases, there is an organisation, there is a machinery to do the work; not to supersede your work, but to do the work you cannot do. If you have not got cases, but only a benevolent feeling that is spending itself in the air, then come to the source of practical action at the "C.O.S." I would here be your helper, not superseding your functions, but directing them, if needful-opening up for you the central stores of information and experience, in order that you may not be robbed, or disheartened by the sense of waste and failure.

180. This morning I have had little books placed in your pews, and I have invested in over 1,000 of the most useful explanations of the objects of the Charity Organisation Society, and my choir-boys have orders to give you these as you go out of the church. And if there is a word in this discourse which you have not understood, or if you have any cases that you wish practically to deal with, I invite you to come to me, if you think that in these matters, at least, I am what the Prayer-Book calls sufficiently "discreet and learned,” and let me be for Christ's sake a "helper of your joy."

DRUNKENNESS.

DRUNKENNESS.