come entirely unexpected.  I, however, determined to change the sphere of action, and not expose the sacred volume to seizure at every step which I should take to circulate it.  In my late attempts, I had directed my attention exclusively to the villages and small towns, in which it was quite easy for the government to frustrate my efforts by means of circulars to the local authorities, who would of course be on the alert, and whose vigilance it would be impossible to baffle as every novelty which occurs in a small place is forthwith bruited about.  But the case would be widely different amongst the crowds of the capital, where I could pursue my labours with comparative secrecy.  My present plan was to abandon the rural districts, and to offer the sacred volume at Madrid, from house to house, at the same low price as in the country.  This plan I forthwith put into execution.

Having an extensive acquaintance amongst the lower orders, I selected eight intelligent individuals to co-operate with me, amongst whom were five women.  All these I supplied with Testaments, and then sent them forth to all the parishes in Madrid.  The result of their efforts more than answered my expectations.  In less than fifteen days after my return from Naval Carnero, nearly six hundred copies of the life and words of Him of Nazareth had been sold in the streets and alleys of Madrid; a fact which I hope I may be permitted to mention with gladness and with decent triumph in the Lord.

One of the richest streets is the Calle Montera, where reside the principal merchants and shopkeepers of Madrid.  It is, in fact, the street of commerce, in which respect, and in being a favourite promenade, it corresponds with the far-famed “Nefsky” of Saint Petersburg.  Every house in this street was supplied with its Testament, and the same might be said with respect to the Puerto del Sol.  Nay, in some instances, every individual in the house, man and child, man-servant and maid-servant, was furnished with a copy.  My Greek, Antonio, made wonderful exertions in this quarter; and it is but justice to say that, but for his instrumentality, on many occasions, I might have been by no means able to give so favourable an account of the spread of “the Bible in Spain.”  There was a time when I was in the habit of saying “dark Madrid,” an expression which, I thank God, I could now drop.  It were scarcely just to call a city, “dark,” in which thirteen hundred Testaments at least were in