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 LONDON'S BITTER CRY 
 
 HUSHED IN CANADA. 
 
 BV 
 
 LADY HOP.AllT, 
 
 HON. SKC. TO KA8T LONDON FAMILY KMIMRATION KUND. 
 
 I' HINT ED BY REQUEST. 
 
 LONDON : 
 JOHN F. SHAW AND CO., 
 
 48, PATKUNOSTEU ROW, E.G. 
 
 1884. 
 
 PROVINCIAL LIBRARY 
 VICTORIA. B. C. 
 
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 The Scbbtance of the roLtowiso Paper 
 Was given at the Workekb' Meeting, December, 1883, 
 iXt tlie tome ot ^nUitttrp, 
 
 COMMERCIAL STREET, 
 
 SPITALPIBLDS. 
 
LONDON'S BITTER CRY 
 HUSHED ]N CANADA. 
 
 fj ])0 not think that 1 ever felt more thankful to God 
 I for help sent to the poor than T have felt since T have 
 — been in Canada and imve there seen the eHects of 
 Emigration. The emigration work of which I wish particularly 
 to speak is " The East London Family Emigration Society." 
 Of course there are those in all j)arts of the land who need 
 our lielp, and ns far as we can we gladly let our organization 
 help any of good character to emigrate, l)Ut our fiintf in ly- 
 dusiirfi/ for the benefit of JCnst London poor, and our work 
 is amongst the East Londoners. 
 
 This work commenced in 18(38. Many of us remember 
 that terrible time of suffering in the Plast of London, that 
 terrible tin- ■ of cholera, and famine, and fever, when tlie poor 
 suflered so dreadfully. During all that sad winter of 18G7 
 the Etist Ix)ndon Mission and lielief Society gave good help by 
 sewing classes, &c., so far as it was enabled to do ; but when 
 the ne.xt summer was nearly over, and the similar hardships 
 of another winter had to be faced, Lady Mary P'eilding and 
 myself felt that something practical and permanent should be 
 done, or else there would be the same terrible misery in the 
 winter that was coming. It seemed very desirable that some 
 families should, if possible, be removed from the want and 
 keen pressure of East London, and so we thought, "Why 
 should they not emigrate ? " Already it was late in the year 
 
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 for cmif^ratitiu, aiitl if any were to go tlioy must leave in 
 three weeks. The tliiiij,' .seeiiied iin])()M8il)1e ; but we called 
 on Him in whose hands are the silver and <,'old, and Ho 
 heard ua. Within three weeks over XodO — more than snlli- 
 cieiit for the families we then had in view — was raised, and 
 the first band of ei<,'hty-four enn'urants set sail in Auj,'ust, 
 1808. "We had at that time most valuable aid and advice 
 from Sir J(thn Hose (who was then the Minister for Finance 
 in Cana(hi), and he has ever since continued to give us much 
 good counsel and kind encouragement. I hiring the following 
 winter we heard from these jteople who went out — h(tw well 
 they succeeded, although they went so late in the season, and 
 hov kindly they were received ; and as we had these wonder- 
 satisfactory letters, and saw that even in the cold of the 
 . .dian winter the people were so much better than if they 
 had remained in East L(jndon, we felt much encouraged, and 
 thought that wliat had proved good for them would prove 
 good for others also. When, therefore, the spring came round 
 again we renewed our efforts; and Lady liipon took up the 
 matter most warndy, as she has continued to do ever since. 
 We were very successful, and in the spring (»f 1809 we sent 
 out over a thousand people to Canada ; and again in the 
 succeeding year, 1870, we sent out over another thousand ; 
 and we have sent out i^ome emigrants every year from that 
 time. Altogether we have now sent out 3430 souls. And all 
 through I would say we have been but instruments in the 
 hand of God ; for our belief is, that " the help that is done 
 upon earth God doeth it Himself." He knows we could 
 never have done anything without Him, and the working of 
 His hand has been very evident from the first. Again and 
 again when a party has been on the very eve of going out, 
 and when we have felt we could not possibly send another 
 family, one would come forward, some family in every 
 way eligible — ^just the very class of people we wanted to 
 send. Perhaps a few days or hours before the party sailed 
 
London's Hitter Cry liuslud in Canada. 
 
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 some iiKJst prusniiig case wmild bo fouiitl, ami what couhl wo 
 do? Wc! just laid the inaltur Ituforu (Jud iu ]trayur, uiid wo 
 askud ]Iiin, if it weri; His will Unit this family should j,'u, to 
 Hcr.d the money. And right through we (!au say, " .//»■ luoi 
 ncfcr Jnilal «.s, and we have iwiur hud to keep back oiw niiiyle 
 suul from want of funds." 
 
 Now this lust year I huve felt afresh the very great 
 blessing of the work ; for (lod has allowed me to .s*r the 
 results of emigration. 1 went to America to visit my son, and 
 I was glad to be able to spend u few weeks in Cunadu, and 
 I cunnot i»ossil)ly (lescribe to you the joy of my heart as I 
 saw the wonderful dillerence between the state of these 
 people us I found them over there, and the condition that I 
 had known them in when they were here. I hud a book in 
 which I hud entered the names and particulars of (ill our 
 emigrants, and the udilresses of uU who had written to us — 
 as many of them did — after they settled in Canada. It is 
 very eu.sy to find any person in Cuiuida. You have simply 
 to get a directory of the town, and in that directory you 
 will find tiie name of every person in the town, whether ho ' 
 be a labourer, u stonemason, or whatever he may be. So I 
 found it easy to discover those who had not removed away ; 
 some, of course, had removeil to other places, but u great 
 many had remained where they first went. I visited a large 
 numl)er of these in diflerent towns, and I wish to say that no 
 agent went Itefore me to prei)are the people for my coming, 
 or selected, who 1 should see; therefore these were not "got up" 
 cases. I went unexpectedly to the peoi»le's doors, and found 
 out all that 1 could about our old friends and their present 
 circumstances. In my book I had writ* ■ the names and 
 ages of each child, their occupation, Sec, wJieh iu London. 
 I used to refer to this, and go over the whole family, see " 
 where they were, how they were getting on, what the 
 children were now doing. Of every one whom I went to 
 see I asked this (juestion, " Are you glad or are you sorry 
 
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 that you cHiin- out Ui ('iiiiiula i"" And witlioiit aiiv Hiiij,'le 
 cxcoitlidii, uMil witlmut liositutUMi, the uuawur tdinii/n wus, 
 "H'tart' y/ih/ or tniiie out." 
 
 I wm able to timl one iimu who went out witli tiur very 
 tirst party, til'teen years ago; and when 1 t'ound him lie did not 
 in the least expect to see me. lie has now a g((od l)nsines.s in 
 u eonntry town; he is in pnrtner.sliip with another man, and 
 they are doing well. Two earls .stood hefore the door taking 
 out onler.s; Tor he serves the nut y round, lie has a nice 
 little house u few miles oil" whieh he has bought i'or himself. 
 The children are iloing well — some o5 them are married, ami 
 in comfortable homes of their own. He has had some trials 
 in his family ; and who is there who has not ? Still he has 
 everything to be thani<ful for, and he feels it. He was ii 
 respectable man when he went out ; he had lieen in a small 
 business not far from here, but owing to the great dejiressiou 
 in trade and other causes his business had gone down, he 
 liiid failed, and he with his wife and four or live children 
 were on the very point of starvation. So badly oil" were they 
 when we sent them out that on their arrival they had 
 nothing ^vhf^eve^ except the snuvU sum of money we had 
 })rovided them with. He took the first work that wu.s 
 ollered him, and he told me that tiiey carefully saved every 
 farthing they could, and began by getting a little hou.se and 
 buying a stove, and so by degrees they gathered t(»gether 
 necessary household goods. They have remained in the town 
 to which they first went. Their eliler children soon got work, 
 and as they have moved out into homes of their own the 
 younger ones have grown up to take their phices in the old 
 home. So I could tell you of a great many others — some of 
 them have only been two years in Canada. None of them 
 in the least expected a visit from me, and I saw them just 
 as they were in their every-day life, and found how nice and 
 comfortable they were in various ways. I caimot express how 
 T was struck agaiii and again by the wonderful contra.st 
 
London's Bitter Cry Unshed in Canada. 
 
 betwoun wlinl 1 liad known uf tliesu peoplu licru, uud how I 
 found tliuni tlioro. 
 
 And now an I cunio Iiunio a^'nin, and cunu; to tho Kast of 
 London and see how the puoplo aru livinj,' ; when one reads 
 the terrible accounts hitely pubHslied of Outcast London, and 
 renienibers that many who used to /urm pari of this Outcast 
 Ixjndon are now happy, comfortable, and prosjicnis in Canada ; 
 when one sees and thinks of these thi'i'^s surely one is 
 stirred to fresh longings and endouvour.-j to he] p soino now in 
 Lost London to that land of plenty. 
 
 Here is one case that 1 siioulil like to mention. When 
 driving from the station in one town wo met a man walking 
 home from his work. I knew him at once, and he soon 
 recognized me, and liurri('<l home to his wife to give lier 
 warning. In a minute or two I reached his house, and found 
 his wife just laying out the sujiper in a nice airy room, and 
 everything was clean, nice, and tidy. He showed me over his 
 house ; the neat little sitting-room, with its books, desk, and 
 pictures ; then tlie comfortable kitchen and the various bed- 
 rooms. Next he wanted me to see his garden, his kitchen 
 garden well stocked, and his rabbits, his pig, and his wood 
 for winter fuel. Altogether he seemed very comfortable 
 indeed ; while his children were all at work and prospering. 
 The big ones worked off at some distance, and the little ones 
 nearer home. When I remember such homes — and there are 
 many of them in Canada, occupied by men and women who 
 but lately were in poverty in the East of I^ndou — when I 
 think of these things, and then read what we have all been 
 reading lately in the newspapers, and see what may be seen 
 any day in the East-end, 1 am compelled to say, " Is it not 
 possible that hundreds of those families now in destitution 
 and want might be removed there? Could they not be 
 removed from a place where there is no room for them, 
 where they are not vmntcd, where they are in the way of 
 each other, and can hardly get food to eal and know not 
 
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 liow to earn sufficient for rent, not to speak of clothing ? 
 What better couhl be done for them tlian that they should 
 be enabled to go where they would not find themselves an 
 encumbrance, but where they are xcanlcd^ where there is 
 plenty of work, and good food, and such splendid air!" Oh, 
 how difl'erent from the air of East London ! Hire the chil- 
 dren are a burden ; ilierc they are a source of strength and 
 prosperity. It is delightful to go there and see those that 
 you remember here as pale, pinched children, now grown uj), 
 married, and settled comtortably ; while those that ware the 
 little tiny ones when the family emigrated, are now grown up 
 to be fine, strong young men and young women. Plenty of 
 food, plenty of work, and the beautiful fresh air have worked 
 wonders for them. 
 
 As to our way of sending out emigrants, I think nothing 
 can be more satisfactory. Tlie ^lidland l^ailway Company 
 makes excellent arrangements for the journey to Liverpool ; 
 whilst at Liverpool the ]\Iessrs. Allan send to meet the emi- 
 grants at the station, and I think that on board Messrs. 
 Allan's steamer.s they are most kindly treated. I have 
 myself gone into the steerage at all hours of the day, and 
 have found the people contented and exceedingly well looked 
 after. Of course they are not na comjorUdih on board as on 
 shore (I certainly am not myself), but the emigrants have 
 plenty of food and kind treatment. It is wonderful to notice 
 how even on board the hopelessness and wretchedness seem 
 to die out of their faces ; they are already looking forward, and 
 once more lioi)e is rekindled. And when the ship arrives at 
 Quebec the Government agent, Mr. Staflurd, kindly rec eives 
 and looks after the emigrants, and sees that tliev have a cood 
 meal before starting forward on their journey. So again at 
 Montreal, Mr. Daley, the agent, receives and looks after them ; 
 and on arriving at Toronto, Mr. Donaldson welcomes them 
 and sees that they have plenty of food. When I was in 
 Toronto 1 wanted to see an emigrant train arrive, and Mr. 
 
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 Donaldson told mo that I must be at his office at the 
 station, by eight o'clock next morning, if I wanted to see the 
 emigrants. I reached tlie oilice very ohortly after eight 
 o'clock, and was surprised to find it very quiet and very few 
 there. I thought the train had not yet come in ; but Mr. 
 Donaldson soon told me it had come in, and tlie eu'igrants 
 were all gone to work. Most of this set of people had been 
 liired before the train readied Toronto, and farmers there 
 had been waiting in thfjir waggons to take hands oft' to their 
 farn)s. They were all taken up at once. What a contrast to 
 that hardest of all work, as many a poor man in London 
 kno\VL. — tlio standing about all day long looking for work, and 
 in vain, and tlien returning home at niglit with notliing to 
 give the cliildren ! Think of tlie wonderful contrast of finding 
 tlie work imiting for you and the farnvers wanting you. I 
 saw tliat morning at Toronto that even after all the emigrants 
 were gone two or three people came up enquiring, "Are there 
 none left ?" "Are all gone ?" " When are more coming ?" I 
 was much struck by Mr. Donaldson's manner. He has been 
 for many years at his post as Government agent ; he knows 
 all the wants of tlie emigrants and the farmers, and he is most 
 kind. So far as I could see, tlie Canadian Government is 
 anxious to have such emigrants as we liave sent ; but they are 
 exceedingly anxious to get only those people who will work. 
 Of course, those who do not want to work need not go to 
 Canada. The Canadian Government know that we endeavour 
 to send tlie right kind of people, and that we are very par- 
 ticular only to send oat those of good character. We accept 
 none save those who can liring a good character from a 
 previous emjdoyer, and also a reference from a clergyman, 
 minister, priest, or visitor, &c., for we are unsectarian. 
 
 Our plan lias been to send out families. We do not mind 
 liow many children there are ; the more the better. We are 
 glail to have numbers of children : for thev have a chance of 
 doing well and growing up strong in a land where they are 
 
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 so much wanted. And certainly they said in Liverpool, when 
 one of our parti'js was going in a tender to the steamer, that 
 they never had sent out such a lot of children before. Wo 
 are very thankful to say that all our people have gone over 
 in safety, and there never has been any accident or trouble 
 among them. 
 
 I have now been in Canada myself, and have seen how 
 these families are getting on ; of course, in seeing so many 
 families I have found that they have not been exempt from 
 the ordinary trials of life. There have been sickness, accidents, 
 removals by death, and other trials ; but, notwithstanding all 
 these, the general tone of life is a perfect contrast to all that 
 has gone before, as well as to that of the lives now being led 
 by many thousands in London. 
 
 "We never entertain any case without recommendation, 
 because we have pledged ourselves to the Canadian Govern- 
 ment to send out only people of good character; and wo 
 have kept to this rule, and our emigrants alw.ays have the 
 character of being respectable. That fact inspires confidence, 
 and leads to their ready welcome on arrival. We do not 
 mind how large the family is, or how poor the people are, if 
 only they are willing to work. Again and again I have had 
 it said to me in Canada hy people that we have sent out, 
 " You cannot help getting on here, if only you will work and 
 are steady." 
 
 I have told of a man who has been out fifteen or sixteen 
 years, and of another who has been twelve years. I should 
 like to tell of a family that went out two years ago. Tliere 
 seemed to be no human prospect of their going out. They 
 were a very large family ; some of the daughters were married. 
 They lived not very far from here. Some here may know that 
 we have a little mission-room at 149, Sidney Street, Mile End 
 Road, and in connection with that mission we discovered this 
 family. Father and sons could find no work ; mother and 
 daughters were working day and night at sack-making, and 
 
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 their only wmiilnint was, that they could not <jd cnowjh work 
 to do, although their earnings were but a omall pittance. 
 Tliey wished to emigrate, and we tohl them they must try to 
 help themselves. " We will do what we can," they said ; and 
 during all the winter they contrived to bring to us a shilling 
 a week by sheer pinching. When the spring came they had 
 saved between two and three pounds, and they were longing 
 to start. Funds at the time were very low, we had many 
 other applicants, and this family was a very large one, so we 
 said, " Could not some of you go first ?" " No, no; we've had 
 a har<' time of it, but we've been together, and we would 
 ratlicr wait on here than separate." We took the matter to God 
 in prayer, and reminded them that they should do the same. 
 We felt that it was very desirable this case should go out. 
 But time went on, and the emigration season was passing, and 
 still circumstances seemed hopeless. About that time my own 
 health ratlier failed, and I was useless for a time, and as Lady 
 liipon was in India, it seemed as if nothing whatever could be 
 done. At last I got better, and felt led afresh, and very 
 earnestly, to ask the Lord what wa& to be done about this 
 family, and I was, 1 believe, guided to write to two or three 
 personal friends. More than enough money was promptly sent 
 to me, and this whole family, and other families also, went out 
 in July. 1 saw them last August in Canada, and one of the 
 married daughters told me that the father's health was failing 
 and the mother's also ; the years of work and want in London 
 had at last told on them, liut she said, "What does it matter ? 
 We can well aH'ord to keep them now. My husband has got 
 more work than he can do. They are always pressing him 
 to take on more. My brother has got plenty of work too." 
 Already the people had got land, on which they had built 
 houses that they were living in, and they were paying for all 
 this gradually, as is the way there ; and amongst them they 
 had four nice houses. One son-in-law earned nearly three 
 dollars a day, another two dollars, while the children were 
 
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 between tlieni earning something every week. " Wliiit should 
 we have done," tliis marrietl Uaugliter said, " if we had re- 
 mained in England ?" The pO(»r mother had failed so much 
 thai her mind was giving way; but that day, being conscious, 
 she said to her daughter, " (live my love to tlie lady, and ask 
 her to tell peo^de in East London this from me: If they wish 
 to remain poor, let them stay where they are ; but if they 
 ever wish to be different, let them do as we have done, and 
 try and come to Canada." These people had been out but 
 a very short time, yet the change was wonderful. 
 
 Now I come back to London, and I hear the terrible cry 
 of those who are here in a state of deplorable poverty ; but 
 "terrible London" nccer reaches Canada, because there all find 
 plenty of work and room to live. Of course Emigration 
 work is only temporal relief, but as such I say it has proved a 
 complete success. What I saw in Canada can only be described 
 in the words — " Gud showed me His goodness plenteously." 
 As I went into the nice comfortable rooms I felt again and 
 again that I really could not speak ; it was really so utterly 
 delightful to see how happy the people were, and so cori tented 
 — there was no excitement, but steady, quiet family-life and 
 cheerfulness, and such safe caring for the children. Oh, how 
 different from their lot in East London ! I was also very much 
 struck by the general and very great unselHshness and the 
 kindness shown by the Canadians to the new-comers and to 
 all. When any trouble comes to the emigrants they are 
 sure to find sympathizers and helpers. 
 
 I must also tell of one of Miss IMacphersou's boys who 
 I saw in Canada. This boy was once a workhouse boy ; 
 but see him now — such a nice respectable young man! 
 He is a traveller, I believe, to some firm, and he has a good 
 bright, tidy home. His wife and children were out when we 
 called ; but he spoke of them in the happiest way ; lie 
 showed us over his house, and we saw his neat sitting-room 
 with his organ, his books, and his pictures, and every evi- 
 
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 tlonce of prosperity. I was so astonished that I said to Miss 
 Macphcrson, "Is this rmlhj one of your boys?" He was 
 indeed. What would he liave been her^ ? Little else than 
 a street Arab all his life ; but as I saw him out tliere I could 
 only thank God for His great mercy in giving him such an 
 opening as this. That young man spent his whole afternoon 
 in trying to find for me some of our people who had lately 
 removed. 
 
 Some may think that what I liavc said is exaggerated, but I 
 say it is inqMysiiiblc to exaggerate tlie difl'erence between the 
 homes that these people had here and their present homes in 
 Canada. 
 
 I am very anxious to send out a great many more families 
 next spring. It seems to nie this East of London is irri/ full 
 now, and emigration not only helps those who go, but also 
 those who remain, l)y lessening tlie pressure at home. We 
 sent out a thousand souls after tliat terrible time fifi .1 years 
 ago, and now we are anxious to send out another thousand 
 in the coming spring. The whole organization for sending 
 them is and has been in working order. Lady Eipon and I 
 have always kept it going ; when she is away I carry it on, 
 and when I have been away .she has carried it on. 
 
 After my journey to Canada, I can say that we have 
 examined the system right through, and it has proved a com- 
 plete success, and now we want to a2^ply it to vicoiy more. Of 
 course the great thing we want is money, and I trust those 
 who are able will help us again. Many may be willing to 
 send out a whole family, or perhaps even a single case. Tlie 
 Uessing it is to those who have been sent I have thankfully 
 shown ; and I might multiply the cases indefinitely. 
 
 I found one man, for example, in the same town to which 
 he went twelve years ago. He has prospered ; he is now the 
 principal bricklayer there. He has built the churches and 
 schools, and employs a number of men. He has bought and 
 partly paid for a farm of fifty acres. His son of nineteen 
 
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 manages the farm, while his daughter looks after the dairy. 
 Anotlier case was one of the poorest we ever sent out from 
 London, and one that seemed at first rather hopeless. He 
 was a boy whose family were going out ; but at the last 
 moment some old companions got hold of this boy and 
 tempted him to run off with them. All they wanted was to 
 get hold of tlie clothes lie had just put on and pawn them. Of 
 course they soon turned him adrift wlien they had got all he 
 had. He came back to us begging to be sent after his father 
 and mother. He was put in a Home, and we often so feared 
 he might run away that the door was well watched. One 
 Sunday, however, the Lord brought home His word to this 
 boy's heart, and there was no need to watch the door then. 
 The Thursday after he sailed for Canada, and got into work 
 there. He joined the Young IMen's Christian Association, 
 became a teetotaler, and working steadily, soon got on. 
 His family had removed from the place they went to first, 
 and so the lad could not find his father ; and for some years 
 the one object of that young man was to find his father, and 
 he did find him last year. He is working as a cabinet- 
 maker, is married, and has sent me a photograph of himself, 
 his wife, and child. Ho is happy, prosperous, and con- 
 tented. 
 
 I could only visit a very few of the many emigrants 
 we have sent out ; but as they were not pic^'^^d cases in any 
 way, and were in all parts of Canada, I consider they were a 
 fair average of the whole. It is, I think, plain that emigra- 
 tion has been proved to be a complete success. It is no 
 longer an experiment, but an ascertained fact. This being so, 
 I feel justified in urging strongly the needs of the thousands 
 who are now in East London's poverty, and who, could they 
 be transplanted to Canada, would find plenty of work, and 
 consequently plenty of food. I doubt not that we shall be 
 enabled to send a large party in the spring, but I should so 
 much like to give hojK to some poor families now. If some 
 
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 friends would promise to meet tlie cost of one or more 
 families, the very thought of going out would fill them v/ith 
 hope, and the having something better to look fovwr.rd to 
 would nerve them during the v/ant and privation and struggle 
 of the winter months. If we can give a ray of hope it will 
 energize them to efforts on their own part ; for we always 
 try to get everj' family to do it^mt they can for themselves. 
 It is not much they can do ; but if one family raises £20, 
 another £2, or a little less or more, the whole accunnilates 
 very nicely. Some years we have had over £300 raised by 
 poor families in tliis way. This plan encourages self-help, 
 and prepares for carefulness in Canada, as economy nt tlie 
 start is one great secret of prosperity. 
 
 I was so thankful to observe the warm, lovinj,' feelintr 
 still cherished towards tlieir own country by our Emigrants, 
 while they are one and all so thankful for being sent to 
 Canada. ' ' \, ' . 
 
 Now cannot we try and help others, equally poor, to 
 go? We cannot touch the whole of this tremendous 
 poverty and evil, but we can do something, and the highest 
 word of praise that Jesus gave when He was on earth 
 was just this — "She ^ath done \ohat she couW Shall we 
 not, each one of us, try to do what we can ? If we do 
 God will bless, and use that help for some of His suffering 
 ones, and all to the glory of His name. When Miss Macpher- 
 son asked me to come here and tell about this work she 
 gave me this verse—" Thus saith the Lord that created the 
 heavens ; God Himself that formed the earth and made it ; 
 He hath established it. He created it not in vain, He formed 
 it to be inhabited." And I would add, as regards Canada, 
 
 " There He setteth the hungry that they may build them a 
 city to dwell in, that they may sow their land, and plant 
 vineyards to yield them fruits of increase. He blesscth them." 
 
 Shall we not try to help many more to go out to these 
 places where they may sow the fields and plant vineyards and 
 
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 receive the Mossing,' of (Sod? If any are willing to help 
 individuals or families to go out I shall bo glad to find 
 suitable cases for them. We want to know just how far 
 God would have us go, and how many Ho would have us 
 send. I am always anxious not to go before God's will, 
 but to follow where He leads. If any are inclined to 
 promise the means to send some, I should be glad to know, 
 as it is beginning to be time that we were making arrange- 
 ments, and there arc many poor people very anxious to go 
 from their misery here. 
 
 In answer to questions asked by friends in the audience, 
 Lady Hobart stated that the average cost was about £5 per 
 adult, and half that for children under twelve. All who are 
 sent are warndy clothed — not in new clothing, but generally 
 cast-oir clothing repaired and fitted. Special terms are offered 
 by the Canadian Government to domestic servants and agri- 
 cultural laliourers ; but the cost mentioned is the average for 
 working men and their families. 
 
 All communications in reference to this movement should 
 be made to Lady Hobart, Honorary Secretary of " The East 
 London Family Emigration Fund," lo, liecleston Scjuare, 
 S.W. Cheques to be crossed to Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph, 
 43, Charing Cross. 
 
 London: john f. siiaw and co., 
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