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AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



ever trod the soil of mother earth humble-minded 

 workers for Christ and oh, what a field for useful- 

 ness is theirs ! There are hundreds of thousands who 

 are as sheep having no shepherd. There are in Lon- 

 don many thousands of men and women as ill-bred, 

 uncouth and ignorant as the most unlettered back- 

 woodsman you ever saw or read of. 



Under the direction of the United Kingdom Alli- 

 ance I lectured one night in the Royal Victoria Hall, 

 at one time the old Victoria Theatre. The men for 

 the most part kept their hats on, and several of them 

 deliberately took out their pipes and lighted them 

 while the services were proceeding. 



What a grand work is being done by Dr. Barnardo 

 among this class. I delivered two addresses in the 

 Doctor's " Edinburgh Castle," Burdett Road. I also 

 addressed two thousand persons in the Great Assembly 

 Hall, Mile End Road. This great hall was built and 

 is under the direction of young Charrington, one of 

 the noblest of young Englishmen. He is a son of the 

 big brewer, whose ungodly factory for the making of 

 deadly swill stands only a block or two away. God 

 touched the young man's heart, and he freely gave up 

 all claim on patrimony which might come from such 

 a trade, and devoted his life to the saving of men's 

 souls rather than amass wealth by destroying men, 



