published. His sermons form a library of twenty-five large octavo volumes, containing no less than 1,300 sermons, and these have been translated into almost every civilized tongue.

Besides these works of pastor, preacher and author, Mr. Spurgeon has the care of two large and somewhat novel institutions. His college, the operations of which are conducted in a large and beautiful edifice just west of the Tabernacle, is one of the most favored schemes of usefulness. He has the impression that there is much pioneer work for the church to do, and proceeding on the principle that there are many strong men who only require a little help to fit them for such work, he instituted his college, which he calls the Pastors' College. The students have two years' training under most efficient tutors, and then they are sent forth to do this pioneer work. This college was founded in 1856 on a very small scale; it has now, like all Mr. Spurgeon's work, assumed unexpected proportions.

In the year 1866 Mrs. Hillyard placed a sum of about $100,000 at Mr. Spurgeon's disposal for some charitable purpose, leaving all the details in his hand. Right royally has he carried out his trust. A piece of land at Stockwell, about two miles from the Tabernacle, was purchased, and the Stockwell Orphanage was erected. The gift was so invested that 250 boys might have a home, but their maintenance was cast upon the people of the Tabernacle and other friends. For seventeen years that orphanage has housed and fed and trained 250 orphan boys. It costs exactly $50 a day to keep them, and though there are no collectors, the boys have never been hungry yet.

The financial affairs of the Tabernacle are very wonderful. In 1853 the church which now worships at the Tabernacle was at its lowest ebb. If out of debt, that was all, and its income would not reach more than about $3,000 per annum. Now the Tabernacle has church property free of debt, including Tabernacle, almshouses, orphanage, college, amounting to $276,953.55. In addition to this its endowments amount to $145,031.25. Its income is little short of $70,000 a year.

It would be impossible to close this brief sketch more suitably than by quoting a brief paragraph from Mr. Spurgeon's pen. Writing on his jubilee in the March number of the Sword and Trowel, he says: "When all is said and done, the jubilation of our jubilee does not call for any great blowings of trumpets, but rather in the uplifting of hand and heart in prayer to God for further help. It may be that we are only in the mid-voyage; may that voyage end in landing our freight in port. In my fiftieth year I take up my personal place as a beggar, and cry: 'Brethren, pray for us?'"

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

T was said some time ago, by one who made some pretensions to waggishness that in any wise redistribution of the sons of men, they should be divided into the saints, the sinners, and the Beechers. Certainly the Beechers have been somewhat numerous in the public life of America. The founder of the family, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, once said that it seemed to him that there were Beechers everywhere; Beechers in heaven and Beechers on earth, but he really hoped he had no need to go any further. The Beecher family was a family of clergymen. William and Edward, George and Thomas, Charles and James, and last and greatest of all, Henry Ward Beecher. It got to be a proverb-“ Scratch a Beecher and you find a parson."

No name is better known on this continent than that of Henry Ward Beecher, who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 24th of June, 1813; he was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher. Of all the members of the family he had for a long time the most determined aversion to the work of the ministry, and yet he, of all Dr. Beecher's sons was destined to fill for the best part of two generations the foremost place in the pulpit of America. It is said by his sister, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, that it was largely through the influence of Professor Stowe that he was disposed to think seriously of the ministry as the avocation of his life. During the years 1831, 1832 and 1833, Mr. Beecher taught school at Whitinsville, Mass. His first ministerial work was in Indianapolis. But Mr. Beecher has done the great work of his life in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Indeed, it may be said that Mr. Beecher