G. and Coster_,"--LORD SHAFTESBURY
_A Statesman who had no Enemies_,--W.H. SMITH
_Greater than an Archbishop_,--THE REV.C. SIMEON
_A Soldier Missionary_,--HEDLEY VICARS
_A Lass that Loved the Sailors_,--AGNES WESTON
_A Great Commander on a Famous Battlefield_ THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
_A Prince of Preachers_,--JOHN WESLEY
_Some Children of the Kingdom_
_The Victor, the Story of an Unknown Man_
_A Boy Hero_,--JOHN CLINTON
_Postscript_
BENEATH THE BANNER.
_STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN "UNDER FIRE_".
ONLY A NURSE GIRL!
THE STORY OF ALICE AYRES.
On the night of Thursday, 25th April, 1886, the cry rang through Union
Street, Borough, that the shop of Chandler, the oilman, was in flames.
So rapid was the progress of the fire that, by the time the escapes
reached the house, tongues of flame were shooting out from the
windows, and it was impossible to place the ladders in position. The
gunpowder had exploded with great violence, and casks of oil were
burning with an indescribable fury.
As the people rushed together to the exciting scene they were
horrified to find at one of the upper windows a girl, clad only in her
night-dress, bearing in her arms a child, and crying for help.
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