Chimney Sweep's Mission

Tht converted prize fighter or gambler is occasionally heard of in this country doing mission work, but a more interesting figure than most oí these is that of J. T. Kingsbury, a chimney sweep, who is eonducting a successful mission in south London. Kingsbury is a fine specimen of the average workingman. Gifted to an extraordinary extent as far as oratorical talent is concerned, he is able to wield a wonderful power over his fellows. He is now known all over south London, and wherever the chimneysweep evangelist is announced to speak there is invariably a good audience. The woik of the Peckham Rye Mission has so prospered that the hall is not only crowded on Sundays, but often at the week night meetings large coñgregations are to be seen. There are hundreds of Christians who fail to show upon their faces the happiness they should feel, but Mr. Kingsbury does not belong to this class. He is known .by all those witfc whom he comes in contact as one of the happiest and pleasantest of men. When preaching he often exïlaims that in ! his younger days he vas a sweep by trade and a sweep by nature, but by the grace of God he has forsaken the latter profession and been cleansed from the soot of sin. Mr. Kingsbury has some very loyal helpers, and as superintendent of his mission he insists that ail who are willing should lend a hand. At his open-air meetings he calis upon his workers. Sometimes a carpenter steps forth, then a wood hawker, a sawdust dealer, a sailor, a clerk, in fact, many kinds oí trades and callings are represente.