Mrs. M. Baxter writes from Cologne, the city of Germany best known for its eau-de-cologne: "After five weeks' work we have little to record in the way of visible fruits. Certainly, numbers have heard the gospel in a very simple way, and a large number were from the very lowest ranks of the people, those who really have no religion—viz., some Protestants who never go to any church, and some Catholics who come to the meetings in spite of the threat that they will receive no absolution, many of them more from defiance than from a desire to know more of God's word. At first the meetings were very unquiet—blasphemy, mockery, constant talking, singing, moving, during the whole time—but the last fortnight God gave us almost complete quiet during the meetings. "But the scene outside was just the reverse. A rabble assembled every night to shout, scream, and yell at us as we came out of the meeting, following us sometimes for half an hour or more before we could be rid of them; and we were obliged to walk round and round the streets till they dropped off, to prevent their making an assault on the houses where we lodge. One unhappy old woman went out of the meeting mocking, and saying it was much better to come to a dance than to hear about salvation through Jesus' blood. Five minutes later she got a stroke in the street, and died in an hour or two, poor thing!" "He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." (Prov. 29: 1).