The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-04 00:00:00

CITY MISSIONS.

(From the Sailor? Magazine for September.]
Every thing that has* tendency to purify the mass of a
population in large cities and towns must have a most im-
portant it auence upon mar nutria, generally.
The efforts now nenhiog for London have a most esfraor-
dinar, character cl risrfulne:s, and if actively pursued with
switablefrards, there can be no doubt of a success fully cor-
responding with the magnitude of the object.
Mane zealous friends of the BETHEL CNION SOCIETY
have alio lent their aid to promote City Missions by visits
to courts, lanes, and alleys, by the waterside, and much real
good has been produced. •
Messrs. Joyce and Patdson have been eery particular
and assiduous in their domiciliary visits about BT.CATHA.
else's; and Mesas. Philips and Smith also on the opposite
ih,re of Toot z r- sr az a r. Several pious females have also
bent most usefully-engaged is this work, and in some
iostsnms every lans,e in Me mart has been visited and the
()conic exhorted to attend the means of grace. Preaching
is also established in many of the worst courts of London,
'nd to some of the very went characters. Our readers will
Mission Society last year
), under the direction
iales. A sermon for this
,fields, brought forward
nmittee, and the original
the City Mission Branch
Committee became the
During the last winter
zlon formed also an In-
ttli.enctes Committee and
.7 formed another Insti-
-1 Society for Promoting
.'oor, and they have had
.t Albion Chapel. A part
Society have also continued
'-iting persons and work-
a public meeting at the
idling Hospital, Henry
he original Institution,
.ission Branch Society has
fully in courts, lanes, and
London snd Its suburbs.
latter, Mr. Smith Liu

commenced his public labours in the open air at Smith-
field, Tower-hill, Gohlen-lane, Rotherhithe, Deptford,
Greenwich, Blackheath, sad Woolwich Common. The
anniversary et' this very useful institution was held at
the large chapel in Grub-street, Finsbury-square, Monday,
August SW. It was crowded with s nue of the most active
and zealous persons in the metropolis. The Rev. Messrs.
Dreke, Adams, Mitchell, and Smith; and Messrs. Von
Athos, T. Phillips, and R. Joyce, took part in the ser-
vice. To prevent confusion in the public mind, the name
was changed to " The Domestic Mission Society for Lon-
don and its Sliburbs." Many most Interesting letters
were read from agt ma in different parts of the metropolis,
and much important information was communicated the
previous Sabbath evening, at the Rev. Mr. George Harder 's
chapel, Fetter-lane. The first number of an interesting
and useful work, entitled the " Domestic Mission Magazine
and City and Town liemeinbrancer," was introduced at die
anniversary, and at the doors fur TWOPIINCT each.
It was announced that this work would be continued
monthly, and the second number would be published on
the tat of September, by Whittemore, Paternoster-row.
The anniversary was uncommonly instructive and animat-
ing—the most lively interest was kept up until ten o'clock,
and every one seemed to depart with a fired determi-
nation to do something for COD in his or her own imme-
diate neighbourhood. Mr. PHILLIPS gave some valuable
and encouraging statements of the number of sailors he had
picked up in the streets, and the horrible scenes of guilt and
misery he had witnessed in the most obscure lanes that he
Ind investigated by the water-side.
We feel so highly gratified with this Domestic Mission
Society, and so confident of its most extensive usefulness
among the poor and wretched of large cities and towns, that
we do most earnestly recommend it to all our readers; and,
as the " Domestic- Mission Magazine " contains so much 1
information at such a trifling sum, and a new plan by which
every individual may do so much good, we hope every
person who is anxious to serve his generation, and to be
useful among his neighbours, will give orders to his book-
seller that it may be regularly Ibtained at the publisher's.
All communications concerning the Society ate requested
to be forwarded to the publisher's. There is one Gentle-
man who preaches every Sabbath in the courts of Somers-
town, and says, he was first stimulated to it by the remarks
in the " Sailors Magazine" last year about City Missions.
We hope to hear of similar impressions in some future
day on the minds of many of our readers, that to
do good and communicate they forget not, for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased. We hope soon to hear
that similar Domestic Mission Societies are establish-
ing in every city and town thivmeout the kingdom, un-
til the friends of the Lord Jesus Christ are found ge-
nerally going " from house to house, teaching and
preaching repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ."—The female Secretaries are, Mrs. Ilunt and
Miss Penny ; address at Mrs. Edwards's, Bermondsey New-
road. The Corresponding Secretaries, who have also a con-
sulting Committee of gentlemen, arc, the Rev. G. C. Smith,
J. Lincoln, and J. T. Jeffry. Address at the publisher's
of the " Domestic Magazine."

recollect the formafi,
at White's Grounds, PI orslydoan,
chiefly of pious turd respectable ferns
Ins:ituticii at Albion Chapel, Moort
soine gentlemen who formid a Coins
Institution assumed the name of th
society, and the Gentlemen's Cc
General City Missionary Society. I
svne respectable Ministers of Comd
titution, taking a part of this Gentl
discharging a small debt; and they
Ilion, and called it the London
Instruction among the I'o
a lively meeting to that effect at A
f the Wirral City Missionary Soci
:o act in their distinct capacity visit
houses; and they have also had a
Inge chapel in John-street, Found
)rarnmond, Esq. in the chair. Tli
lust took the name of the City Miss
COotinued to labour most successful'
r.eys, through various part of Lo
•go immediately attaehtd to the
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