enemy to battle against it. Are we to be discouraged? No! It is sad to work for the evangelization of our fellow country men and then when they are converted to have them go to the States as they do. We cannot surrender. If we convert 40,000 French Canadians and every one of them leaves the country we will have 40,000 less Roman Catholics in Canada to fight against. Whether we annex the States or not and thus get them all back, God has given us the work to do and we must do it.

Brother Stobo fears that some day there may be no Protestant Church in Quebec. It certainly looks as if there might be no English speaking Church, as that element of the population is dying out; but let us have some French-speaking Protestant Churches there, and when every English speaking citizen shall have left, in the old fortress city there shall be the flag of Protestantism uplifted by the descendants of those splendid pioneers who first came for the discovery and subjugation of this land. We are well able to do it. If we cannot do it there is no use calling ourselves Christians. It is this for which we desire to set forth the facts, to arouse the sympathies and secure the co-operation of our brethren from abroad, to inspire us with courage in the task, so that we may devote ourselves to it as we never did before.

The Doxology was sung and the session closed.

COMMUNION SERVICE.

The Communion Service in connection with the Conference was held in the Dominion Square Methodist Church on Wednesday, October 24th, at 2 p.m. Notwithstanding the pouring rain the service was numerously attended, all the denominations being represented. The Rev. J. C. Antliff, D.D., pastor of the church, presided, and opened the service by giving out the hymn, “ According to Thy gracious word." The Right Rev. Bishop Ussher having offered prayer, the Rev. R. F. Burns, D.D., of Halifax, N.S., delivered the address before the distribution of the elements, in substance as follows:

We are gathered here to-day from all parts of this wide Dominion, representing the Church of Christ in her various departments, around the table of our common Lord, to partake of the significant symbols of the common salvation. This feast is a mirror. It reflects truth, the truth as it is in Jesus, the leading doctrines that centre in Him; His divinity, His humanity, His atonement, the truths that "are most surely believed amongst us," are here. We look back to His first advent and forward to His second. His feast is a memorial, a monument of the most gracious person that ever lived, and the most glorious event that ever happened. We do this in remembrance of Christ. We show forth the Lord's death till He come. This feast is a medium, a medium of communion with the Saviour and the saints. Truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Christ Jesus, while we realize fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleansing us from all sin. Here we declare ourselves anew to be His.

"He redeemed me, he redeemed me, he redeemed me," was the answer of a Southern slave whose freedom was purchased by a Northern philanthropist, and who became a servant in his house. Friends visiting the family, and marking her singular fidelity, would sometimes enquire into her history. Her eyes would fire and her heart heave as, pointing to her new master, she thus uniformly replied. And have we been redeemed, not with corruptible things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, and shall we not anew confess, as we come afresh to the altar of God (for we have an altar), "Lord, I am Thy servant, I am Thy servant; Thou has loosed my bonds."

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"Wherever you go, Sir, I am yours; every drop of my blood thanks you, for you have had compassion on every drop of it," cried a poor condemned criminal to whom Philip Doddridge brought a pardon, bearing the sign manual of the king.

If, from being "condemned already," "there is to us now no condemnation;" if He who has been anointed to proclaim the opening of the prison doors to the bound has bought us and brought us our pardon, should we not all feel thus: "Wherever you go, O my Saviour, I am yours; every drop of my blood thanks you, for you have had compassion on every drop of it." "Thou hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood." Therefore are we not our own? Bought as we are with a price, we feel bound to glorify Him in our bodies and spirits, which are His. The eyes for Jesus, to scan the glories of His world, and to pour with deep and delighted interest over the treasures of His Word; the ears for Jesus, sensitive to catch every communication from the skies, and every Macedonian cry that is wafted on the breeze; the lips for Jesus, breathing filial Abbas into the ears of the listening Father, and speaking a word in season to him that is weary; the hands for Jesus, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; the feet for Jesus, joying when it is said let us go to the House of the Lord, let us watch with Him one hour at the prayer meeting; going through the streets and lanes of our towns and cities, and drawing from the lips of the children of suffering and sin, in cellars deep and garrets high, the exclamation: "How beautiful in these dark dens of ours the feet of them that bring the good tidings!" The head for Jesus, to think of Him; the heart for Jesus, to love Him; the time for Jesus, the talents for Jesus, the treasure for Jesus, the influence for Jesus, the all for Jesus. This is what our present profession means, and if to any good practical purpose we realize Jesus in the midst, and sitting down, watch Him there, if we have caught the glance of His melting eyes and the grasp of His nail-pierced hands, the feeling welling up within us will thus find vent :

"Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were a present far too small,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all."

The elements having been distributed by the clergymen, who had been appointed for that purpose, the Rev. John Potts, D.D., of Toronto, delivered an address, which was in substance as follows:

Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is that brethren

should dwell together in unity. This is a very remarkable service, and the thought has just been impressed on my mind that it is a service well-pleasing in the sight of our Glorified Lord. We are not one whit the less denominational, we have not one whit the less a choice in Church Government now than before we came into this Evangelical Alliance Sacramental Service, and yet I venture to say to-day that each heart throbs in sympathy with the other. We are in Christ Jesus.

Presbyterianism, Episcopalianism and Methodism, and all those human expressions we have for religious belief seem very little different in principle in view of the Glorious Atonement and in the acceptance of the Glorious Coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. These human organizations seem very insignificant to-day in view of the anticipation that when we are done with earth, we shall all sit down at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. My own heart was greatly impressed with the loving and tender words of Dr. Burns. I am sure you join me in the feeling to-day that we each bear for the other nothing but love and esteem.

"He brought me to His banqueting house, and His banner over me was love." Oh, dear brethren, let us go forth, not only from this Sacramental Service, but from this Evangelical Alliance Meeting with renewed and enlarged and more practical consecration to the service of Christ and his Church, and may the presence of the Master be with us in every department of His great service.

As I came over to the service this afternoon, and as I thought of it, there is one passage of the Second Ephesians which impressed itself on my mind, "And hath raised us up and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." It is remarkable that the "heavenly places in Christ Jesus" are everywhere. Yet the Providence of God allots us our place. There are "heavenly places in Christ Jesus" in the workshop, in the counting-house, behind the counter, and in the discharge of the various legitimate duties that devolve on us; but, I suppose I should not hazard anything in saying, that in a peculiar sense, we sit together, to-day, "in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Oh! it is a more blessed thing to be in Christ Jesus than in any section of His Church on Earth, and if we can serve Him, whether in the Anglican, or Presbyterian, or Baptist, or Congregational, or Methodist Church, we be as distinct as the billows yet one as the sea.

The hymn, "Rock of Ages," was sung with great fervor, and the Rev. Dr. Antliff closed the meeting with prayer.

WEDNESDAY, 24th OCTOBER, 1888.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The REV. T. LAFLEUR, President of the French Branch of the Evangelical Alliance, Montreal, occupied the chair.

The hymn, commencing "The Church's one foundation," was sung, and the REV. DR. TORRANCE, of Guelph, offered prayer. TOPIC: ROMANISM IN RELATION TO EDUCATION.

CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.

REV. T. LAFLEUR, MONTREAL.

Dear Brethren.-The Evangelical Alliance, especially in its present attitude, seems to stand in complete antagonism with Roman Catholicism, as though recognizing nothing good, and no one as truly Christian in the whole body of that form of Christianity. But our meeting at this time, and particularly on this day even with its programme and the whole array of its essays and speeches-must not convey that meaning, for it is not intended to convey it.

We have gathered here as brethren in Christ, having become such by a now grateful knowledge of His words and of His work, handed down to us by faithful disciples through long ages; and also professing to have felt in our souls the converting and saving power of the spirit of God. It is in acknowledgment of all this, and in the glorious hope of an immortal life beyond, that we have come together here, for a few days, not as Churches, or as denominations, but as individual Christians, inviting all other individual Christians to join us in the expression of our faith, of our love, and of our immortal hopes. If, therefore, any Christian of any Church, Protestant, Greek, or Roman Catholic, can feel at liberty to join us, he is heartily welcome.

In giving expression to our faith in the doctrines that seem to us clearly to result from the study of the Word of God, we do not do so in a spirit of condemnation of those who see these