and great moderation in all fermented liquors. Dickie attempted at a meeting to show the difference, and deprecated the practice of drinking in moderation, and enjoined that of abstinence, when he came out with the expression which gave rise to that notable term, tee-total, which, since then, has gone through the world. He said that we should all be 'te-te-tee-total.' We all took up the word at that moment, and we were glad to get it; for the designation abstinence from all intoxicating drinks was cumbersome. We said that was the thing, and from that moment till now, the word tee-total denotes abstinence from all kinds of drinks, in opposition to moderation in all fermented drinks.

"I remember my first journey to London, when I had the privilege of delivering the first lecture upon teetotalism that was ever given in the metropolis. But I should mention that it had come to our knowledge that nearly all our temperance members were drinking ale, and that my attention having been called to the subject, I consulted brewers and maltsters, and other authorities, and made myself pretty well master of the malt question, so that I embodied my knowledge in a lecture, about which old abstainers particularly will have heard. Well, to return, I was full of the flattering idea that I was going at once to change the great head of the nation, and through that the whole country. I spent a fortnight in London before I could get a place of meeting. At last I got one in a sort of cellar. I then got large bills, and small bills, and went into the business thoroughfares and posted them. I thought I would stir up the bankers and noblemen. I also got two men to parade with announcements in front of the meeting-place. I had prepared my lecture; but, lo and behold, only twenty-five persons appeared! I delivered it however. As I returned home, a man named Moir said to me, that if he could deliver that lecture, and make it as plain to Londoners, as I did to him, he would give £1000. Humble as that beginning was, it was the first step that led to the first teetotal society in the metropolis of this great country. My second meeting, then, was a year after, and the nucleus of a society had been formed. We got the use of the room occupied by Robert Owen for the purpose of delivering his social lectures. Bills were printed, and everything was done to prepare for the meeting. Billy, my friend and I, took our usual way of letting the Londoners know about the meeting. We got a bell, which I rung, and he called the meeting; but before we had gone through many streets a gentlemen in blue tapped us upon the shoulder, and asked us

if we knew what we were about? He told us that nobody was allowed to go through London and create such a noise. We accordingly desisted. The meeting was but meagre; but it was successful, and from that time to this, the society in London has been progressing till it now counts its members by tens and hundreds of thousands.

"I remember a striking instance of the benefit of kindness, and the circulation of tracts. One day I was going to a village six miles from the town of Preston. A Primitive Methodist camp meeting was held in the neighbourhood. In walking up a lane, I happened to join the best-looking man of a number of that religious denomination. His name, I learned afterwards, was Cook. I spoke to him of the temperance cause, as I generally do. And I may remark by the way, that when people say to me, 'Why, Livesey do you make so much of this cause?' I answer, 'Because you make so little of it.' Well, this Mr. Cook was dressed in black, and with a white neckerchief, and he was going to be the speaker at the camp meeting. He said, 'You don't know me; do you remember speaking to a poor man who was seated, ragged, wretched, and ruined, on the step of the Albion public house?' I looked at him and I said, 'Is it true? are you that man?' He replied, 'I am the same man; you spoke to me kindly, it had an impression on my heart, you gave me a tract, and I read it, and it so affected me that I became a teetotaller, and have been one ever since.' This is a fact. He gave up his wretched companions, he joined the Primitive Methodists, he became a Sunday school teacher, and last of all, he offered himself on trial as a preacher, and was appointed, and when I saw him he was going to the camp meeting, to address the Association. I could give you hundreds of cases where a private visit and a kindly, friendly, and Christian conversation have led to effects such as scarcely could be effected, if it were not connected with so good a cause. The poor drunkard fancies nobody cares for him, and so feels honoured if a man, in a superior position, comes forward and gives him a helping hand. Strive in every possible way to get yourselves respected by the toiling millions, and persuade them to join the temperance society."

WHAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE?

Richard Wentworth and John Rees were boys of similar age. They were born of respectable parentage, and sat by side in the same school. They played together in their youthful sports,

and as was natural became much attached to each other. In their start in the race of life, their advantages may be said to have been equal. But let us see how they severally ran that

race.

Richard Wentworth was apprenticed to an eminent merchant. He was blythe, amiable, possessed of good address, and clever. As he grew up into the tall and handsome young man he became a very general favourite. His company was courted. He was invited to social parties in the best family circles. He was seldom an evening in his own home. By and bye people shook their heads when they mentioned his name, and whispers of something wrong were freely circulated. His countenance, once so fair, gradually became bloated in its appearance. His clothes grew shabby, and he was sometimes seen staggering along the street. At length he lost his situation and was cast upon the world. For a time he became a wanderer, homeless and pennyless, and ere he had reached the mid time of his days, disease struck him down, and he was laid in a dishonoured tomb. Alas, poor Richard Wentworth had become a drunkard.

John Rees was apprenticed also to an eminent merchant. He was a promising boy. He was tall, good looking and spirited. He was moreover diligent and faithful, and secured the approbation of his employers. Generally he spent his evenings in his own lodgings, and occupied himself in improving his mind. As he grew up to manhood he began to take a lively interest in public movements-especially those which were of a benevolent and humane character. The temperance enterprise very soon enlisted his sympathies and energies. He became a hearty and devoted worker in the noble band of Temperance Reformers. Ere long he rose to a position of importance and influence in society. His consistency of character, his gentleness and amiability of disposition, his large-heartedness, his untiring zeal, his eloquence on the public platform, drew towards him the attention and admiration of many. He became the instrument in God's hand of accomplishing much good. Many an outcast found in him a warm and faithful friend, and he has been blessed to turn the feet of many a wanderer into the paths of virtue, He still lives with all his honors fresh upon his brow. He now occupies a high official position in the city in which he has constructed his fortune. Much of his success and eminence in life is traceable to the fact that in early days he became an abstainer. What a contrast between the lives of these two men! Yet their advantages were equal. What made the difference then?

Mainly this, Richard Wentworth drank of the fatal cup; John Rees refused to drink it and lived an abstainer.-From the Victorian Band of Hope Record.

ANNALS OF THE BAND OF HOPE UNION.

We have great pleasure in giving the following brief journal of Mr. W. B. Affleck's labours in London:

April 30th. I came to London and met the Committee, at a welcome tea at Mr. Shirley's, Queen Square.

May 2nd. Delivered an address to 200 children at the Temperance Hall, Weir's Passage, Somers Town, at half past six, and took part in a religious service at the Girls' Home, Parker Street, Drury Lane, at nine o'clock.

May 4th. Preached to a large congregation in the Wesleyan Chapel, King Street, Long Acre.

May 5th. Delivered an address to 50 Mothers, at three o'clock, in the Mission Hall, Bloomsbury. This was a very encouraging and profitable meeting. I also delivered a lecture in the Wesleyan Chapel, King Street, Long Acre, to a numerous and attentive audience. The Rev. G. W. McCree in the chair. Messrs. Nicol and Shirley ably assisted.

May 6th. Delivered an address to the Ragged School, in Little Denmark Street, at eleven o'clock a.m. and in the evening at a quarter past eight, gave a Temperance Lecture in the Eclectic Hall, Denmark Street. There was a large audience. J. Thwaites, Esq. in the chair. The Rev. G. W. McCree also made a short speech.

May 7th. Gave an address to the Girls' Ragged School, George Street, Bloomsbury.

May 8th. Lectured to a numerous and respectable audience in the Mission Hall, Bloomsbury. The Rev. G. W. McCree presided.

May 9th. Addressed the boys (150 in number,) in the Bloomsbury Refuge.

May 11th. Preached on Seven Dials, in conjunction with the Rev. G. W. McCree. The audience was an open-air one, and the strangest I ever saw. We had Jews, Irish labourers, fallen women, thieves, &c. The utmost order prevailed. The service commenced at quarter to ten, and closed at a quarter to 11. Delivered an address to the Sunday Scholars, in the afternoon, in the Baptist Chapel, Cromer Street, and preached in the evening in the same place.

May 12th. Held a meeting, assisted by the Rev. G. W. McCree, in the Baptist Chapel, Cromer Street. The Rev. E. W. Thomas presided. May 14th. Delivered an address to 300 children, in the Mission Hall, Bloomsbury.

May 15th. Delivered a lecture in the Baptist Chapel, Cromer Street. The audience was larger than on the previous evening.

May 16th. Visited the Reformatory Institute, Euston Road, and held a short meeting in the afternoon, and in the evening spoke at a meeting in the School-room, Deverell Street, Southwark, in connection with the

Revs. G. W. McCree, and T. Greenbury, of Scarboro'. Thomas Pillow Esq. in the chair.

May 17th. Gave a short address to 400 children, in the Mission Hall, Bloomsbury. The Rev. G. W. McCree presided.

May 18th. Attended Band of Hope Union prayer meeting, Whitfield Chapel, in the morning at half past six, and preached an open-air sermon on the "Hartley Catastrophe," in the forenoon, to about 1000 persons, in Hackney Fields. In the afternoon, at three o'clock, delivered an address to 1000 children and adults, in the open-air, Hackney Fields, and at four o'clock addressed 700 scholars and teachers in the Abbey Street School, Bethnal Green.

During the month Mr. G. Blaby has attended meetings as under :Bloomsbury Refuge; Denmark street; St. Giles, twice; Spa fields; St. Clement's Danes; Good Samaritan; One Tun, Westminster; Amicable row, Kent street, Borough; Mission Hall, Five Dials; Somers Town; Ogle Mews; Edgeware; Hampstead; Hendon; Tottenham, and West Green, Tottenham.

Mr. S. INSULL has been lecturing with great success at Red Hill, Nutfield, Ramsgate, Deal, Petworth, Kingston, Christchurch, Hants, Luton, Beds, and several places in London.

SHADWELL.-A large and spirited meeting was held in the Sailors' Institute, Mercer Street, when the Rev. G. W. McCree presided, and Mr. W. B. Affleck, Mr. R. Nicol, and Captain Gunn delivered addresses. Mr. A.'s speech was one of great interest, and the melodies sung by him were much enjoyed by the audience.

HURWORTH.-Mr. W. B. Affleck (late Temperance missionary at Bishop-Auckland, now agent for the Band of Hope Union) has delivered a series of twelve lectures and sermons, under the auspices of the Hurworth society, at Hurworth, Neasham, and Eryholme. The last of the series was held on Monday night, the 28th ult., at Hurworth, when, after an able address from Mr. Affleck, the chairman (Mr. John Harrison, jun., of Darlington), on behalf of the society, presented Mr. Affleck with a very beautiful copy of "The Teetotaller's Companion," by Peter Burne, neatly bound in morocco, with the following appropriate legend in gilt"Presented to Mr. W. B. Affleck, by the Hurworth Temperance Society, as a token of their high esteem and gratitude for his services. April, 1862." During the last year, the number of members enrolled with the society has increased upwards of 150 per cent; and the committee, seeing that this rapid increase was to be attributed in a great measure to the earnest appeals of Mr. Affleck, felt that they could best show their sense of the value of his services by presenting him with the testimonial.

OUR WORK. This has been a busy month for our agents, Messrs. F. Smith, G. Blaby, and W. B. Affleck, but we have not room for any lengthy details.

OUR FUNDS.-We trust our friends will not forget that extra efforts involve extra expenses. It is our intention to enter fully into this matter in our next number. In the interval, we trust our well-wishers will kindly support our movement by generous pecuniary aid..

J. BALE, Printer, 78, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone.