appreciate the kindness extended to them. All that is required of the children is their regular attendance with clean faces and hands. They are supplied with needles, thimbles, thread, and all other necessary materials, and are shown how to make the various articles. If they have any old clothes that require mending, they are invited to bring these to the meeting, and they are shown how to set them right. The work that has been made from new stuff is kept at the classroom, and generally every two months there is a distribution, when each girl who has finished any work is finally presented with the article to take home. Donations in goods of various kinds (tweeds, flannels, &c.) have been made by various business firms and private families, and subscriptions in money have been received from a number of friends. The formation and carrying on of the class are really the work of Miss Smith, who has been well aided by Misses M. and J. Chisholm, McMillan. Turner, Anderson, Aitchison, Robertson, Ross, Hendry, Thomson, Hardie, and Davys.[1]
Another effort of an interesting and important nature has been made by the Session on the motion of Mr Dymock. It is the holding of an hour's religious service on Sabbath evenings, in the class room of Old Knox Church, for the benefit of families that from any cause may be unable or unwilling to attend ordinary public worship in the churches of the city. The first meeting was held on June 7th, 1891. Dr Dunlop has taken a large share of the work in connection with this service. The two ministers, Messrs Brown, Dymock, Fraser, Mackerras, E. Smith, and Todd (elders), and Messrs Malcolm and Reid (students for the ministry), have also assisted. The attendance is fairly satisfactory, and is increasing. Members of the Young Women's Society gave valuable assistance in the preliminary arrangements, and still continue their good services by inviting and encouraging families to attend. The committee have expressed regret that
- ↑ This excellent work has the entire sympathy of the office-bearers. It is another outcome of the good being done by Mr Chisholm's Bible Class. There is evidently room for the wide extension of such work in our community. This is shown by the statement in the report referred to, that "all the children—with one or two exceptions—come from the district which lies within a radius of a hundred yards from the schoolroom." And even from this small area the number wishing to join was so large that they could not be provided for, and consequently no pupils were enrolled after June, except where special arrangements were made with Miss Smith. Are there young women in the congregation who are doing no work for the church? Here is a field in which they would find ample scope.—Knox Church Quarterly Statement, September 1891.
