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have seen and known during the past year, both among Romanists and converts, that we have special cause to praise and pray.

Our schools generally have been well attended, and well taught. One hundred and seventy-eight children have this year been under education in my parish, and of these a good average have been promoted in the late inspection.

In the Islands especially, within a few years, so entirely destitute of civilization, the school work has been carried on with great vigour and success. The priests' schools being virtually closed, and the children (untaught in them even while they held out) advancing so favour ably under the system adopted in the Mission Schools, that nearly every child has this year been qualified to rise to a higher class in the scale for the year to

come.

We have this year sent two young men to the Dublin Training School for schoolmasters, both, formerly, children in the schools, and one young woman has left school to be employed as an assistant mistress in another district.

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From those of whose departure I spoke last year, I continue to receive most cheering accounts, both as regards their spiritual and temporal well-being and of the four boys who entered the navy, (three from the Orphan Nursery and one from the school here,) the testimony received from their officers, both as regards conduct and ability, is extremely satisfactory.

Three grown-up members of the congregation have left for America, and four young people gone to various places of service, where the training they have received will be carried on and developed.

Three clergymen, educated when children in the schools of the district, have this year returned to preach that word of life which first they learned here.

The Sunday services, the morning service in our new church, the afternoon in the Islands, and the evening in Ballyconree, are well attended; the average numbers being 110, 30, and 73.

A "Mothers' Meeting" has been established, and bids fair to be an useful means of gathering in the women (the darkest and least accessible part of the people) not only to the meeting itself, but also to the prayer-meetings and Sunday services.

As the work opens out more and

more, and the hand of God is seen working out his gracious purposes through the humble instrumentality He has employed in it, it is but natural that I should be able to say that my confidence and pleasure in it largely increase, and that the place and people have become to me, objects of very great interest.

For them, I ask only God's increasing blessing, and for the work among them, I ask, through you, the continued support of his people.

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Iar Connaught.-Again has the tide of emigration borne away to America two of our most promising convert youths. There was a time during the early years of my ministry, when this constant absorption of the fruits of Missionary labour would have disappointed and discouraged me; now, however, it is far otherwise, for such cheering tidings are continually being received of the suc cess in life and Christian usefulness of many who have emigrated, that I am driven more than ever to realize that my master's field for labour is the entire world, and wherever his providential tokens seem to direct any of my congregation, I feel bound to encourage rather than oppose their desire to follow where the "pillar of cloud appears to direct their Just as I was about to write way. this report, three letters reached me, which illustrate how happily the results of Irish Church Mission work, translated from this parish, are in course of development in America. One of these letters was to myself from a convert young man, a native of this parish, who has just been ordained a member of the American Church in the State of Virginia, after having completed the required course in Fairfax Theological Seminary. Another letter from the same young man to his uncle, a Scripturereader here. In both letters he expresses deep gratitude to God for his great mercies to him; and thankfully acknowledges the benefits conferred on him by the Irish Church Mission Society. To use his own words, "God indeed" (he says) has been merciful to me, and blessed me, to Him be all praise. May his presence go with me and make me a faithful minister of the New Testament through Christ Jesus. Since I came to America, I had to struggle hard, part of the time, still I kept advancing; I landed without one cent in my pocket, and have never wanted since. God's name be praised."

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