For the sake of suggesting profitable topics of discourse, and of obtaining from time to time correct information respecting the progress of our work, and the moral condition of our districts, a set of queries for our collectors was drawn up soon after the beginning of our association, and it is from the answers to these, that most of our facts are gathered. Some advantage is gained by keeping notes of our visits, the state of a family is the better remembered, and appropriate remarks may be made. Thus in one house, which was without a bible, the woman on being asked if she would subscribe, answered, she would consider about it. The visitor turned to her book and said, “Mrs. L. you gave me that very answer when I called before, and that is four years ago to-morrow; time flies.” She was so struck that she immediately paid a penny towards a half-crown testament, evidently frightened at her own procrastination. Many of our stories bear on the desirableness of a diligent and frequent revision of our work. We give an extract from the notes of one of our committee, in 1833:— “Having been somewhat struck with the example of the ladies of Wisbeach, recorded in the extracts for last October, of recanvassing their districts once in three years, I thought it might be well to visit a neighbouring village for this purpose. I did this, with the cordial concurrence of the collector, who though diligent and persevering is incapacitated by circumstances and health from extra exertions. We visited every house in the place, with scarcely an exception, and found 23 persons willing to pay for bibles and testaments. The place has had a constant, though small supply, but there would be a much larger demand, were it not for the lamentable want of education. Perhaps the discovery of such a state of things may prove in some instances one of the indirect benefits of bible visiting. The effects of the bibles and testaments already distributed, were in some instances happily observable. Many were shown me which had been purchased from the society, and some appeared to have been used and valued as we should wish. One elderly and very poor woman showed me her bible, and said, ‘eighteen years ago I learnt to read in it.’ I asked how she had learnt at so advanced an age, being now nearly sixty: she replied, ‘I went down on my knees and asked God Almighty to teach me, and he did.’ I said I did not doubt that this was the best way, but I asked her what means had been used? She told me that she had heard a sermon preached on a text in St. John, which so strongly impressed her mind, that she felt an earnest desire to read it again. Having found the place, she spent nearly the whole night trying to spell the words, and returned to the employment the next day, till her son came in, and on his expressing