Cr. £ s. d. Oct. 12. By Postage of Pass Book 0 0 3 25. Balance 169 3 1 ---------- £169 3 4 ========== II. Affairs of the Master. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sept. 15. Balance [102] 1221 0 8 20. Kate 100 0 0 26. —— at Venice, Antonio [103] 50 0 0 Oct. 1. Secretary 25 0 0 3. Downs 50 0 0 5. Gift [104] 20 0 0 10. Loan 200 0 0 ” Jackson 50 0 0 ————————— 495 0 0 ---------- Oct. 15. Balance £726 0 8 ========== III. I print the following letter with little comment, because I have no wish to discuss the question of the uses of Dissent with a Dissenting Minister; nor do I choose at present to enter on the subject at all. St. George, taking cognizance only of the postscript, thanks the Dissenting Minister for his sympathy; but encourages his own servant to persist in believing that the “more excellent way” (of Charity), which St. Paul showed, in the 13th of Corinthians, is quite as truly followed in devoting the funds at his said servant’s disposal to the relief of the poor, as in the maintenance of Ruskinian Preachers for the dissemination of Ruskinian opinions, in a Ruskinian Society, with the especial object of saving Mr. Ruskin’s and the Society’s souls. “September 14th, 1876. “Dear Mr. Ruskin,—Mr. Sillar’s ‘valuable letter’ in last month’s Fors, (a) would have been more valuable if he had understood what he was writing about. Mr. Tyerman (in his ‘Life and Times of Wesley,’ p. 431,) gives the trifling differences between the present Rules of the Methodist Societies and the first edition issued in 1743. Instead of ‘interested persons having altered old John Wesley’s rules’ (he was forty years old when he drew them up) ‘to suit modern ideas’—the alterations, whether good or bad, were made by himself.