Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . opulati()n of three thousand. Here I was nu).-.! <ordiaily entertained by Mr. R. Allan,a Scotchman by birth. .\ few facts of his history are not unworthy of record here: Makinghis fortune in the earlier years of the islands settlement, he returned home to Scotland, withthe iTiteniion of sjxnding the remainder of his days in his native land. After spending sometime in his old home, the spirjt of Christian zeal began to light uj) his soul so brightly andfervidly that
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . opulati()n of three thousand. Here I was nu).-.! <ordiaily entertained by Mr. R. Allan,a Scotchman by birth. .\ few facts of his history are not unworthy of record here: Makinghis fortune in the earlier years of the islands settlement, he returned home to Scotland, withthe iTiteniion of sjxnding the remainder of his days in his native land. After spending sometime in his old home, the spirjt of Christian zeal began to light uj) his soul so brightly andfervidly that he again took ship for Australia, where he has ever since devoted his wholetalent, time, and energy to Christian work. He has erected a model Sunday-school Institute,and, under his novel and successful methods of instruction, with a heart desperately in earnest,his labors have been and now are very fruitful. Nearly all of his flock have become Chris-tians, and a few among the number have been called to preach the glad tidings. He isknown throughout the length and breadth of the colonies as the most devoted and successful. NATIVE AUSTRALIANS. of Sunday-schml teachers, and an earnest man of faith and good works. One of his schoolexercises is the writing of six questions upon a large slate in a plain, bold hand, and turningthe same toward the school. Each scholar is also provided with a slate, upon which all writeanswers to these interrogations. Then the slates are gathered up. and each scholars answersare drawn off into a book or report, for future reference. It will be seen at once that thisexercise gives an interchange and expression of thoucht most interesting and instructive. From this pomt I returned to my dear ones at Melbourne, where I gave a song-sermon—the theme, Sweetest Note of Praise, in the Rev. P. R. C. Ushers church. On Tuesday, June 22, I took the steamer Otivay for Warnamliool. On board this steamerI was pained to witness the terrible effects of strong drink on
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