"My Bible class was started," she says, "more than thirty years ago. The average attendance on a Sunday afternoon is nearly eighty. All classes and all denominations are heartily welcomed; but the majority of the girls are Baptist. We have them happily mixed--assistants and heads of departments, factory girls, girls in service, and those engaged in the teaching profession. I am not now able to give the class as much attention as formerly; but my place is well filled in my absence by my able friend, Miss Ashton.

"What method do you adopt in conducting the class?" I asked.

"We commence by singing a hymn. I then pray with the girls, and we sing again. Then I give the International Lesson. The class is to large to be carried on, on the conversational system."

"You must have some pleasant reminiacences of the class?" was my next question.

"Many," answered Miss Hearn; "I will give you one or two.

"At Miss Ashton's suggestion, after the services in the churchs and chapels have commenced, a few girls go out in pairs to the streets, looking for other girls, whom they bring back with them to the large and comfortable class-room. Here, what with delightful chat and sweet music, a 'pleasant Sunday evening' is spent. Some girls so sought and brought have joined the Church, and are proving very useful members. I will give you one instance," my hostess continued, "of the Christian feeling which exists among the girls. A strike occurred in Northampton which seriously affected certain members of the class. It was suggested by the other girls that a collection should be made among themselves, and offered as a loan to their less fortunate sisters. The very next morning 20 pounds was brought to my house. However, such a brave front was shown by the other girls, that I only got rid of three out of the twenty sovereigns.

"Perhaps you would like to see College Street Chapel, and the class-room where my young friends meet?" I was asked, and of course I readily fell in with the idea. I was only too glad to accept so competent a guide to show me over what must be one of the best appointed chapels in the denomination. College Street Chapel was lucky when it attracted the sympathetic heart of Marianne Farningham. It was only too apparent, as she took me around, that the sacred edifice was very dear to her. Pew No. 80 has seen Miss

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