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LIFE ASSURANCE

SOCIETY.

Chief Office: Moorgate Street, London, E.C.

Chairman SIR Wm. MCARTHUR, K.C.M.G., M.P.

This Society has been established Forty years, and has issued above Fortythree Thousand Policies.

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LL_Claims are settled Fourteen days after proof.

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£801,656 £2,103,588

Prospectuses, Forms, and all information may be obtained at the Chief Office, or of the Agents. W. W. BAYNES, F.I.A., Secretary.

Active Agents required in various districts.

INSTANT RELIEF AND A RAPID CURE OF

ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, COUGHS, COLDS, and all DISORDERS of the BREATH, THROAT, and LUNGS are insured by

DELOCOCK'S

PULMONIC WAFERS

Which Taste Pleasantly.

In Hysterical and Heart Complaints they are unfailing; in Rheumatism and Nervous Pains "they act like a charm."

MORE CURES OF THROAT IRRITATION AND CHEST DISEASES.

Mr. Swain, M.P.S., 249, Mill Street, Liverpool, writes:-"Having kept DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS for the last 25 years, I can highly recommend them for all Throat Irritation and Chest Diseases. They are a perfect boon to public speakers and singers, and our sale has largely increased every year."

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DR. LOCOCK'S WAFERS are invaluable: in a few hours they remove all hoarseness, and wonderfully increase the power and flexibility of the voice."

Full Directions in English, French, Spanish, and German, are with every Box. Sold by all Druggists and Medicine Vendors. Price 1s. 1d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s. per Box.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.

ABSCESSES, ERYSIPELAS, PILES.-Unvarying success attends all who treat these diseases according to the simple printed directions wrapped round each pot and box. They are invaluable to the young and timid, whose bashfulness sometimes endangers life. Though apparently local, diseases of this nature are essentially blood diseases, but a little attention, moderate perseverance, and trifling expense will enable the most diffident to conduct any case to a happy issue without exposing secret infirmities to any one. The Ointment checks the local inflammation and alleviates the throbbing pains. These directions also clearly point out when and how Holloway's Pills are to be taken, that their purifying and regulating powers may assist by adjusting and strengthening the constitution.

VISITORS TO LONDON
Requiring a "Home from Home," should stay at

HOUSDEN'S PRIVATE & COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 15, 16, & 17, King Street, Wilson Street, FINSBURY SQUARE,

Within a few minutes walk of the Bank-Moorgate St. & Liverpool St. Railway Stations. Unsurpassed for cleanliness and quietness.

Charges moderate, viz.:-Beds, 2/- and 2/6; Breakfast or Tea, 1/3 and 1/9; Attendance, 9d. per day.

TESTIMONIALS FROM A LARGE NUMBER.

From Mr. J. G. WINKS, Publisher, Leicester.

One of the few homely and comfortable hotels to be found in London, where you will be well catered for at a moderate charge."

FENNINGS' EVERY MOTHER'S BOOK sent post free on application by letter or post card. Direct Alfred Fennings, West Cowes, I.W.

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DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD DIE! Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis.
Fennings' Children's Powders Prevent Convulsions.
ARE COOLING AND SOOTHING.

FENNINGS'
CHILDREN'S POWDERS

For Children Cutting their Teeth to prevent Convulsions.
Do not contain Calomel, Opium, Morphia, or anything inju-
rious to a tender babe.)

Sold in Stamped Boxes, at 1s. 1d. and 28. 9d. (great saving)
with full directions._ Sent post free for 15 stamps.
Direct to ALFRED FENNINGS, West Cowes, I.W.
Read FENNINGS' EVERY MOTHER'S BOOK, which
contains valuable hints on Feeding, Teething. Weaning,
Sleeping, &c. Ask your Chemist for a FREE Copy.

SILVERTON
Patent
PILLS

FENNINGS' LUNG HEALERS

THE BEST REMEDY TO CURE ALL

COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, &c.

Sold in Boxes, at 1s. 1d. and 2s. 9d., with directions. Sent post free for 15 stamps. Direct to ALFRED FENNINGS, West Cowes, I.W.

I The largest size Boxes, 28. 9d., (35 stamps, post free,) contain three times the quantity of the small boxes.

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Read FENNINGS' EVERYBODY'S DOCTOR. Sent post free, 13 stamps. Direct A. FENNINGS, West Cowes, L.W.

A MERCIFUL

MEDICINE,

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Indigestion, Nervous and Sick Headache. Bile, Liver Complaint, Kidney Diseases,

Dyspepsia, &c.,

Can be absolutely and permanently cured by SILVERTON'S PATENT PILLS. Thousands who are
now starving, afraid to eat, may eat and grow strong, if one Pill be taken before and after meals.
They are tasteless and small; are taken by thousands of people who cannot take the ordinary Pills.
They cause no pain or griping, and give relief in a few minutes. They are, indeed, the BEST FAMILY
MEDICINE, and are free from all injurious preparations. In Boxes at 18. 14d. and 2s. 9d., of all
Chemists and Wholesale Houses, or by post from the Proprietor for 15 or 35 stamps.
Ask your
Chemist to obtain them if not in stock. Rev. E. J. SILVERTON, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate
Circus, London.

WALKDEN'S CELEBRATED WRITING INKS.

WALKDEN'S EXTRA BLACK INK,

As manufactured for 150 years-unequalled for intensity and durability of colour.

WALKDEN'S BLUE-BLACK FLUID,

Writes a beautiful Blue-turns jet Black-does not get thick.

WALKDEN'S BLUE-BLACK COPYING FLUID

Gives three good copies-flows freely from the pen.

WALKDEN'S BRILLIANT SCARLET INK,

A very beautiful preparation which may be used with steel pens.

WALKDEN'S INKS may be obtained of all Stationers in Great Britain and Ireland and almost every part of the world.

COOPER & Co., Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers, 5, 6, & 7, Shoe Lane, London.

Established 1735.

A MOST VALUABLE AND USEFUL HOUSEHOLD MEDICINE.

TRADE MARK.

WHELPTON'S

VEGETABLE PURIFYING PILLS

Are one of those rare medicines which, for their extraordinary properties, have gained an almost REPUTATION.

UNIVERSAL

During a period of nearly Fifty Years they have been most extensively used as a FAMILY MEDICINE, thousands having found them a simple and safe remedy, and one needful to be kept always at hand.

These Pills are purely vegetable, being entirely free from Mercury or any other Mineral, and those who may not hitherto have proved their efficacy will do well to give them a trial.

Recommended for disorders of the HEAD, CHEST, BOWELS, LIVER, and KIDNEYS; also in RHEUMATISM, ULCERS, SORES, and all SKIN DISEASES-these Pills being a DIRECT PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD.

In Boxes, price 74d., 18. 1d., and 28. 9d., by G. WHELPTON & SON, 8, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom on receipt of 8, 14 or 83 Stamps. Sold by all Chemists at home and abroad.

THE

General Baptist Magazine.

MARCH, 1884.

Choosing a Minister.

A FEW weeks ago I called late in the afternoon on a friend. To my surprise I found him surrounded by a number of gentlemen, most of whom were well known to me as ministers or deacons of neighbouring churches. I soon learned that a committee-meeting had been held at my friend's house, and they were now all going to take tea together. After I had dispatched my own little matter of business my friend asked me to join them at the tea-table. Nothing loath I paid my respects to his wife, whose agreeable hospitality now awaited us.

Few home scenes are more attractive than a well-appointed tea-table. My friend's large and well-lighted room; the table, with its snowy covering, bright with china, silver, and glass, and covered with homely bread, golden butter, and crimson jams; the genial face of the master of the house; and the quiet courtesy of the mistress, as from behind the urn, she supplied the wants of her guests; all this formed a scene inviting to free and cheerful interchange of thought.

After a time, our host, addressing me, said,

"How about your new minister, Mr. Shortman? Has he come yet?" "He has not settled down yet," I replied, "though we expect him to preach next Sunday, and his furniture will come next week. I can assure you we are all very glad; for a year and a half of supplies has taught us to appreciate a settled ministry more than we did before." While I was speaking there happened to be a pause in the conversation, and a minister at the other end of the table said,

"You are certainly to be congratulated; but havn't you been rather a long time over it? How is it? Are you unduly critical, or is there a scarcity of suitable men! Come, let's hear about it."

"Yes," cried our host, laughing, "confess your faults."

"I'm quite ready," I said; "but really I've no story to tell. If you want something sensational you must go to my friend Thomson, there." All eyes were turned to Mr. Thomson as I thus appealed to him. GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1884.-VOL. LXXXVI.-N.S. No. 3.

"Tell us," I continued, "about the invitation to Mr. J."

Two of

"Oh," said he, "that's an old story, and hardly worth repeating. You must know," he went on, turning to our host, "that we were once without a minister. One Sunday a young Welshman came to supply, and being full of fire and animation took our people by the ears, and an excited desire was expressed that he might settle among us. the deacons were very loud in their satisfaction, but the others were more cautious, and begged us to 'hasten slowly.' But counsel was thrown away upon our impatient friends; and, as the church-meeting happened to come the following Wednesday, what must they do but carry a resolution to invite the gentleman, although a large minority earnestly protested, and one of the deacons pointed out that we were ignoring certain provisions of the trust-deed.

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However, the secretary was instructed to convey the invitation, and he did so the next day, Thursday. On Friday morning he received a telegram saying that the invitation was accepted, and that our new pastor would be with us on Saturday afternoon. So, between one Sunday and another we were settled, and the minister had come. soon wore himself out, and even his most eager partisans had to confess that he was not the man to sustain the interest of a congregation. We had married in haste, and our repentance was leisurely. At last, to our infinite relief, one day he announced his exodus, which he made in much the same way as his entrance among us."

This story was better told than my poor account shows, and loud laughter several times interrupted it.

"Well," said our host, "I'm not greatly surprised. I've noticed that there are few parts of our church life where more mistakes are made than in choosing a minister. I often wish some one would provide us with a handbook on the subject, detailing the best methods of procedure, and suggesting wise rules to aid us in forming a judgment."

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"Did you ever," said a deacon opposite to me, come across a gentleman who sends a long lithographed letter to every vacant church he can hear of?"

"Oh, yes," I replied; "he sent our deacons one, along with half-adozen high-flown testimonials; but, as one of them said to me, they feared that a man who kept a stock of such letters by him would hardly make a wise and useful pastor."

"Very good," said my friend opposite, "and you may thank your deacons for a happy escape. I know the man well, and he is very far from what Paul says pastors should be,-ensamples to the flock."

Here a minister broke in :

"Talking of choosing a minister, I'll tell you how our friend Brown yonder chose me. It's nearly seven years ago now, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. One Sunday morning I saw a strange gentleman in my congregation. You must know that I lived in a small country town four miles from any railway station, and the appearance of an utter stranger was a marked event. Well, he came again in the evening. I wanted to get to speak to him, but he had slipped away, and so I thought no more of the matter. During the week I received a letter asking if I could arrange to supply here for two or three

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Sundays. I said I would come for one Sunday, and on coming I was met at the station by my good deacon Brown, who sits there. He greeted me very heartily and said,

"This is not the first time I have seen you, though I have never spoken to you before."

"I recognised him then as the stranger who had come to spy out the land. The result of it all was that I was asked to remove, and I did remove, and here I am."

Mr. Brown, who had looked very conscious all the while, here said : "Yes, our people never did a wiser thing than sending me from home that Sunday. The first service decided me, and I told our people so. I almost think they would have taken our minister on my report; but perhaps it was better they should hear for themselves at least one Sunday. The fact is," he went on, "we had been taken in more than once by men who have three or four show sermons which they bestow on vacant churches. After those are preached they are used up. Happily we avoided this danger by learning something of how a man works at home, and when taken unexpectedly."

Turning to me, our host said, "Did you do that, Mr. Shortman? It seems to me a very sensible course of action. Give us the benefit of your recent experiences."

"We didn't take just the course of our friend Brown," I said, "but I may say that, from the beginning, we were preserved from some dangers by a wise and salutary resolution binding us never, directly or indirectly, to put two candidates into competition, but to decide each case before entering upon another. One thing we found out was that every man has not every gift. We have had to modify our expectations very considerably. I fancy some of us started with the hope of getting something very little lower than an angel; but we have learned to content ourselves with a good and useful man, and nothing more." As my friends looked interested I went on.

"Another discovery we made was that the men we were the most anxious to secure had the least wish to come. Once, indeed, the tables were turned upon us most completely. We invited a gentleman to preach for us with a view to settlement. He sent us word that he had

no wish to visit us on such conditions, but, as our letter was very pressing, he would come and look at us. So he came; and we found that, instead of the preacher being on probation, the church was on its trial. We were never so put upon our good behaviour before, and, as he declined coming again, we felt considerably humbler for some time. At last we came to our last difficulty, which, strange to say, originated with one of the deacons, for they had all along worked together with unimpeachable loyalty and prudence. A student who was about to leave college came to supply for us, and created a favourable impression, though it was far from general or enthusiastic. One of the deacons especially took great interest in him. But the rest saw many reasons for caution; and the student's name was set aside. At this his friend took great offence, and refused to take part in further proceedings. But the very next Sunday a minister preached who at once united the whole congregation; and the tender and spiritual impression of the first Sunday was deepened when he preached the following Sunday.

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