Captain Rust,' 79, 106 Cheshire water-worlds, 224, 272 Echoes from the Welsh Hills,' 494 Jerry M'Auley's story, 559 Luther, Martin, 481, 529 M'Arthur, Alderman Sir William, Martyrs, Huguenot, the last of the, MORE LEAVES FROM MY LOG: The meeting interrupted, 61: An in- fidel's conversion, 119; Betrayed 14, 67, 133, 157, 217, 261, 303, POET-TOILERS: Prologue, 166; The seller and publisher, 248; Mary Carpenter: social reformer, 289; James Clerk Maxwell: scientific investigator, 341; John Duncan : weaver and botanist, 416; Wives and mothers in the age of home- Pont Aberglaslyn, 463 Potter, Andrew Jackson, the 'fighting Smith, George, of Coalville, 1 The alchemist, 511 The new law courts, 63 The race for life; or, A missionary's Waddy, Mr. S. D., Q.C., M.P., 145 CHRISTIAN MISCELLANY. MONG the many philanthropists of our time, there is probably none who has done better work and won scanter acknowledgment than George Smith, of Coalville. After generations will marvel that in this enlightened age' such a hero should have gained such comparatively slight recognition from his contemporaries, and should have been allowed to spend money, health and strength in his VOL. VII. THIRD SERIES. JANUARY, 1883. long, unselfish struggles for the helpless and the oppressed little ones, whilst so many others have risen to honour and affluence by taking up a good cause and advocating it at its own expense. GEORGE SMITH was born at Clayhills, Tunstall, on February the 16th, 1831. His father, William Smith, was a good Primitive Methodist Local Preacher, whose life was one of hard toil—a brave and successful battle with straitened means and surrounding iniquity. He was a good man and tender-hearted; but his own life of hard work had begun early-he had been employed in the brick-fields before he was six years old!-so when George was only seven he also was sent into the brick-yard. This is his own account of his toils-surely no Egyptian task-master ever exacted so terrible a tale of bricks from captive Israel's little ones: 'At nine years of age my employment consisted in continually carrying about forty pounds of clay upon my head, from the clay-heap to the table on which the bricks were made. When there was no clay, I had to carry the same weight of bricks. This labour had to be performed almost without intermission for thirteen hours daily....On one occasion I had to perform a very heavy amount of labour. After my customary day's work, I had to carry twelve hundred nine-inch bricks from the maker to the floors on which they |