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diff --git a/41048-h/41048-h.htm b/41048-h/41048-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ceede3e --- /dev/null +++ b/41048-h/41048-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,11059 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html + PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" /> +<title>The Church Index, by William Pepperell</title> + <style type="text/css"> +/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */ +<!-- + P { margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; + } + P.gutsumm { margin-left: 5%;} + P.poetry {margin-left: 3%; } + .GutSmall { font-size: 0.7em; } + H1, H2 { + text-align: center; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + } + H3, H4, H5 { + text-align: center; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-bottom: 1em; + } + BODY{margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + table { border-collapse: collapse; } +table {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;} + td { vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid black;} + td p { margin: 0.2em; } + .blkquot {margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em;} /* block indent */ + + .smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + + .pagenum {position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: small; + text-align: right; + font-weight: normal; + color: gray; + } + img { border: none; } + img.dc { float: left; width: 50px; height: 50px; } + p.gutindent { margin-left: 2em; } + div.gapspace { height: 0.8em; } + div.gapline { height: 0.8em; width: 100%; border-top: 1px solid;} + div.gapmediumline { height: 0.3em; width: 40%; margin-left:30%; + border-top: 1px solid; } + div.gapmediumdoubleline { height: 0.3em; width: 40%; margin-left:30%; + border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;} + div.gapshortdoubleline { height: 0.3em; width: 20%; + margin-left: 40%; border-top: 1px solid; + border-bottom: 1px solid; } + div.gapdoubleline { height: 0.3em; width: 50%; + margin-left: 25%; border-top: 1px solid; + border-bottom: 1px solid;} + div.gapshortline { height: 0.3em; width: 20%; margin-left:40%; + border-top: 1px solid; } + .citation {vertical-align: super; + font-size: .8em; + text-decoration: none;} + img.floatleft { float: left; + margin-right: 1em; + margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } + img.floatright { float: right; + margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; + margin-bottom: 0.5em; } + img.clearcenter {display: block; + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; + margin-bottom: 0.5em} + --> + /* XML end ]]>*/ + </style> +</head> +<body> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Church Index, by William Pepperell + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Church Index + A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington + + +Author: William Pepperell + + + +Release Date: October 14, 2012 [eBook #41048] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHURCH INDEX*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the [1872] W. Wells Gardner edition by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal +Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries (Local Studies +department), for their help in making this transcription.</p> +<h1>THE CHURCH INDEX:</h1> +<p style="text-align: center">A BOOK<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF</span><br /> +Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY +THE</span><br /> +REV. WILLIAM PEPPERELL.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">PART I.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">CONTAINING +COMPLETE, ORIGINAL, AND IMPARTIAL INFORMATION,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ECCLESIASTICAL, HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, +CLERICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIAL,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF +THE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>FIFTY CHURCHES—ESTABLISHED +AND NONCONFORMING</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IN THE +POPULOUS PARISH OF KENSINGTON:</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">WITH</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CHURCH +QUESTIONS, AND TYPICAL ILLUSTRATIONS<br /> +OF CHURCH AND CHAPEL BUILDING;</p> +<p style="text-align: center">CONSTITUTING A BOOK OF PERMANENT +REFERENCE,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OR</span><br /> +CONTEMPORARY CHURCH HISTORY.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">All rights reserved.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">W. WELLS GARDNER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">2, +PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.</span><br /> +S. M. & A. <span class="smcap">Warren</span>, 1, <span +class="smcap">Edwardes Terrace</span>; <span class="smcap">Wade +and Son</span>, 25 & 98, <span class="smcap">High</span><br +/> +<span class="smcap">Street</span>, <span +class="smcap">Kensington</span>. <span class="smcap">R. S. +Spalding</span>, <span class="smcap">High Street</span>, <span +class="smcap">Notting</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Hill</span>; <span class="smcap">W. +Meadows</span>, 8, <span class="smcap">Fulham Road</span>, <span +class="smcap">Brompton</span>; J. W.<br /> +<span class="smcap">Dodd</span>, 270, <span class="smcap">Fulham +Road</span>, <span class="smcap">West Brompton</span>.</p> +<h2><a name="pageiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +iii</span>CONTENTS</h2> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">PAGE</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Abbotts, Church of St. Mary</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page1">1</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page81">81</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Andrew, Church of St. Philip and St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page3">3</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>All Saints, Church of, Notting Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page39">39</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Assisi, Church of St. Francis of</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page52">52</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Augustine, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page22">22</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page67">67</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baptist, Church of St. John</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page41">41</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page70">70</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baptist Chapel, Johnson Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page54">54</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baptist Chapel, Silver Street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page54">54</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baptist Chapel, Upper Westbourne Park</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page60">60</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baptist Chapel, South Kensington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page60">60</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brethren, Plymouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page53">53</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barnabas, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page31">31</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page81">81</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Carmelite, Church of, Fathers</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page41">41</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Christ Church, Kensington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page10">10</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clement, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page44">44</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Clarence Place Wesleyan Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page21">21</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Congregational Chapel, Kensington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page25">25</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cornwall Road Baptist Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page50">50</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Convents</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page62">62</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Denbigh Road Wesleyan Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page46">46</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Episcopal Chapel, Brompton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George, Church of St., Campden Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page33">33</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Horbury Congregational Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page46">46</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>James, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page36">36</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>John, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page32">32</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Jude, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page5">5</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page70">70</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Kensington Palace Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page69">69</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lancaster Road Chapel (Congregational)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page57">57</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Luke, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page20">20</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mark, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page38">38</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mary, Church of St., Bolton’s</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page11">11</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Matthias, Church of St., Earl’s Court</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page6">6</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page69">69</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page70">70</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Michael, Church of All Angels and St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page55">55</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Missions and Preaching Houses</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page61">61</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norland Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page56">56</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page71">71</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oratory, Brompton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page23">23</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Paul, Church of St., Onslow Square</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page68">68</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Paul, Church of St., Vicarage Gardens</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page36">36</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Peter, Church of St., Onslow Gardens</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page18">18</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Peter, Church of St., Notting Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page35">35</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Primitive Methodist Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page59">59</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pro-Cathedral, Kensington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page13">13</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Scotch Church, Kensington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sloane Place Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page55">55</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Stephen, Church of St.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page9">9</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Swedenborgian Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page44">44</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page72">72</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tabernacle, Hornton Street (Baptist)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page42">42</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tabernacle, Free, Notting Hill (Baptist)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page49">49</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Talbot Tabernacle, Notting Hill (Baptist)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page58">58</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Trinity, Church of Holy</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page15">15</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Warwick Gardens, Wesleyan Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page27">27</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Westbourne Grove Chapel (Baptist)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page48">48</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Workhouse Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page61">61</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Essays</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Comparative Denominational View</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page72">72</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church Building</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page74">74</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church Music</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page77">77</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church and Population</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page79">79</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Mary Abbotts Church</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page81">81</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Parochial System</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page82">82</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Notes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page64">64</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> +<p>Views of the following Churches will be found in their +appropriate places:—St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington; New +Church (exterior, interior, Organ); Old Church (exterior); St. +Barnabas, Kensington; St. Peter’s, Onslow Gardens (exterior +and interior); St. Jude’s (exterior and interior); St. +Paul’s, Onslow Square; Onslow Chapel; St. Mark’s, +Notting Hill; St. Mary, Bolton’s; Warwick Gardens Wesleyan +Chapel; Tabernacle, Notting Hill; St. Luke’s, South +Kensington.</p> +<h2><a name="pagev"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +v</span>PREFACE.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Particular</span> church chronicles are +scarcely found among the thousands of volumes which annually +issue from the press, although there are no chronicles that have +in them more of what is really of public import. In regard +to Metropolitan churches, nothing of the kind we here present to +our readers has yet been attempted. Detached notices of a +church here and there will sometimes be found in our periodicals +or newspapers; but no effort has yet been made to supply a +collective and relative view of all particular church history and +operations in given districts in a permanent and useful +form. Yet, these churches have now become so numerous and +influential, and are yearly increasing to such a degree, +unparalleled in any former age, that it would seem they demand +distinct and special recognition and record, and surely are +worthy to be preserved in their characteristics as among the +ingredients which must enter into the general church history of +our times. It may thus happen that we are supplying a real +desideratum in Christian literature. The present issue may +either be taken as an entire work in itself, or as the first of a +series which will appear at intervals, as often and as regularly +as circumstances may determine. It contains accounts, +longer or shorter as each case admitted, <i>historical</i>, +<i>ecclesiastical</i>, <i>architectural</i>, <i>clerical</i>, +religious, and social of over fifty churches—established +and non-conforming—in the populous parish of +Kensington. This parish extends from the Brompton Road, the +Boltons and Earl’s Court southward, where it joins the +parishes of Chelsea and Fulham, to Upper Westbourne Park and +Kensal, beyond Notting Hill, north, where it abuts upon +Paddington, and from Hyde Park and Bayswater, east, to +Shepherd’s Bush and Hammersmith, west. It covers an +area of 2200 acres, and has fifty miles of main streets or +carriage-ways within the bounds. The population, according +to the late census, is 121,100 souls.</p> +<p>It will thus be seen that we have been treating in these pages +the spiritual provision made for a population greater than that +of many a large town or city in the kingdom. We were first +attracted to Kensington, a former “suburban village,” +not only because of its importance as a representative +Metropolitan parish, but as forming the centre of the Western +suburbs, and on account of the rapidity with which +church-building has gone on there of late years. We now +present the first part of our task completed, and in the +“Index” with the “Notes” will be found +all that it is requisite to know about these churches. +There is other church matter included at the end which may add to +the interest of the whole. Also, a goodly number of +engravings and photographs of principal church buildings, +additions which will contribute greatly to the interest and value +of the book in the Christian household or in professional +hands.</p> +<p><a name="pagevi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. vi</span>The +author’s thanks are due, and are hereby warmly and +respectfully presented, to those clergy and other gentlemen of +all denominations who have freely opened to him original and +reliable sources of information. He is thus enabled to +present the work freer from all sorts of inaccuracies than would +probably otherwise be the case. He has, also, gratefully to +acknowledge valuable aid from Mr. J. P. Churcher, Architect, of +Kensington, who has kindly given the advantage of his +professional knowledge in regard to a considerable number of the +churches herein described.</p> +<p>The work is now commended to the considerate attention of the +public; trusting that the effort may be accepted as some +contribution in illustration of Metropolitan churches and church +enterprise, treated upon a thoroughly Catholic basis.</p> +<p>There are not wanting signs of a general growing interest in +such subjects. Even the political discussions of the last +few years—bearing largely upon the state of the +Church—have had, at least, the effect of concentrating +public attention upon its fortunes, and of awakening a large +amount of sympathy with its varied labours. Let us hope +that this will tend to the happy result of securing a permanent +practical regard in the public mind for every thing connected +with the progress of Christianity in our midst; and if in some +humble degree this great object is advanced by the contents of +the following pages it will be esteemed an abundant reward and +cause of much thankfulness by</p> +<p style="text-align: right">THE AUTHOR.</p> +<p>22, <span class="smcap">St. Stephen’s Road</span>,<br /> + + +<span class="smcap">Shepherd’s Bush</span>, <span +class="smcap">W.</span></p> +<h2><a name="pagevii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +vii</span>DEDICATION</h2> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">TO</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">CHARLES JAMES FREAKE, <span +class="smcap">Esq.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF CROMWELL +HOUSE, SOUTH KENSINGTON,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THIS VOLUME +IS (BY PERMISSION)</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Respectfully Dedicated,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IN +RECOGNITION OF IMPORTANT AND MUNIFICENT LAY ASSISTANCE IN +THE</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">WORK OF CHURCH EXTENSION IN THE +SUBURBS,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND OTHER NUMEROUS CHRISTIAN, CHARITABLE, +AND CATHOLIC-SPIRITED EFFORTS</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE +COMMUNITY,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND AS AN EXPRESSION OF HIGH PERSONAL +ESTEEM BY</span></p> +<p style="text-align: right">THE AUTHOR.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>,</p> +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was said of one of old, +“He loveth our nation, and he hath built us a +synagogue.” It is no less a pleasure than a duty to +recognize genuine patriotism; and wherever it exists in its +highest character, it is associated with zeal for the extension +of the Church of God commensurately with the nation it +loves. Although, Sir, your habitual modesty would not allow +you to invite the commendation, I cannot forbear according it to +you, that by the blessing and providence of God you have realized +the ideal. Having contributed largely by honourable +enterprise to the extension of the suburbs themselves, you have +been mindful of the spiritual interests of the population. +Two handsome churches—St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, and +St. Peter’s, Onslow Gardens—are due to your Christian +thoughtfulness and generosity. Some men can only project +such works, and leave others to execute and pay for them; but +you, Sir, have been endowed with the will and the power to do all +these yourself; and you <i>have</i> done them with that +unaffected zeal and good will to men, which, as it commands our +admiration, will not fail of the blessing of Heaven. On +various other good works of Christian charity for the education +and improvement of the physical condition of the poor, I need not +now dwell. They are well known to your neighbours, and to +all who daily share their benefits, and will not be forgotten in +time to come. For these reasons I have deemed it +appropriate to dedicate to you this work, in the subjects of +which you take so deep and practical an interest. Praying +that your useful life may be long preserved to us an example and +blessing to many,</p> +<p style="text-align: right">I am, dear Sir,<br /> +Yours sincerely,<br /> +WM. PEPPERELL.</p> +<p>Charles J. FREAKE, Esq.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<h2><a name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 1</span>THE +CHURCHES OF KENSINGTON:<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">INCLUDING SOUTH KENSINGTON, BROMPTON, AND +NOTTING-HILL.</span></h2> +<h3>KENSINGTON PARISH CHURCH</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> the moment of our writing, St. +Mary Abbotts, Kensington, is, in a literal sense, without a +parish church. The old one has passed away, and the new one +is in course of erection. There is, however, <i>the</i> +church, with its long, chequered, and interesting history and +associations of the past, and, we trust, its equally interesting +and still more glorious future. The Venerable Archdeacon +Sinclair, the present vicar, his churchwardens and friends must +feel themselves the subjects of peculiar and pleasurable feelings +as being the chief actors in the great change now coming over the +site lately occupied by the old church, and thus placing +themselves on a line with a long and eventful history. We +must go back far into the middle ages for the origin of the +parish church of Kensington, and to the days of dark Papal rule +in the land. In the time of Henry I. we read of this church +being bequeathed, on his deathbed, by Godfrey de Vere, Lord of +the Manor, to the Monastery of Abingdon. It was, however, +shortly after claimed by and restored to the Diocese of London, +in which it has ever since remained. This was in the +thirteenth century. The first endowment of the Vicarage was +in 1260, and from time to time it received consideration from +various monarchs. In 1520 Queen Mary accorded to it a +portion of the 7,000<i>l.</i> granted by Henry VIII. in +augmentation of the living of incumbents and scholars in +England. The history of the old Saxon church is bound up +with that of the manor, which was bestowed, inclusive of the +rectory, upon various noblemen by royal grants under several +reigns. The collation of the vicarage has belonged to the +Bishops of London, <i>pleno jure</i>, about 390 years. +While the Reformation was yet struggling against Papal tyranny, +as though we were to have a forecast of the Evangelical type and +freedom which have marked this church in after times, it +possessed a martyr. Not one, indeed, led, as far as we +know, to the stake, but cruelly driven from his position and +living, and possibly to temporal ruin. In 1527 Sebastian +Harris, the curate, was proceeded against for having in his +possession a translation of the New Testament and a book entitled +<i>Unio Dissidentium</i>, containing the doctrines of +Luther. He was, for this <i>criminal</i> offence, cited to +appear before the Vicar-General in the long chapel, St. +Paul’s Cathedral, and required there to make oath that he +would not retain these books in possession any longer, nor sell +them, nor lend them, nor make any acquaintance with any person +suspected of heresy, and finally adjudged to quit London within +twenty-four hours, and not to come within four miles of it for +two years!</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p1b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"The New Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1872. The +Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar" +title= +"The New Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1872. The +Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar" +src="images/p1s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The late church began to supersede the first in 1683. +The population even then was said to increase, and the +inhabitants, to provide for the increase, built a new aisle on +the south side. In the beginning of 1695 the north aisle +and chancel were supplanted by others of larger dimensions; and +in 1696 it was resolved to take down and rebuild the whole +church, excepting the tower at the west end. The cost of +this was met by subscription. King William gave +300<i>l.</i>; the Princess Anne 100<i>l.</i>; Earl Craven +100<i>l.</i>; the Bishop of London 50<i>l.</i>; and the Earl of +Warwick 40<i>l.</i>; the entire expense amounting to no more than +1,800<i>l</i>. Bowack, who visited the church in 1705, thus +describes the rebuilt church in his “Antiquities of +Middlesex”: “In form quadrangular, somewhat broader +than long, 80 feet from north to south, and hardly 70 from east +to west. Paved handsomely with Purbeck stone. The +pewing and galleries very neat and convenient. The pulpit +and chancel handsomely adorned with carving and +painting.” It might be added that the pulpit and desk +were the gifts of King William the Third and Queen Mary, in +addition to their contributions to the building fund. The +pulpit has a crown inlaid with the initials, “W. & M. +R.,” and the date, “1697.”</p> +<p>In 1704, the defects of the recent work evincing itself so +clearly by the cracking of the building, it was found necessary +to take off the old roof, pull down the north and south walls, +and rebuild them; which was done at a further outlay of +1,800<i>l.</i></p> +<p>Again in 1772 the church underwent a thorough repair, and the +old Gothic tower was taken down and the later one erected.</p> +<p>Once more in the year 1811 the church showed signs of decay, +and it was necessary to underpin the walls, rebuild the vaults, +and entirely renovate and adorn the interior. This was done +at an expense of 5,000<i>l.</i>, which was met by a church-rate +of sixpence in the pound, spreading over three years. This +church, now spoken of as the “old church,” was a +plain brick structure, with no pretensions to architectural +display. The interior was composed of nave, chancel, and +two aisles, separated by wooden pillars supporting the +galleries. It was spanned from the entablature of six +wooden columns over the nave, and three large brass chandeliers +wore suspended from the ceiling. There was the royal pew +curtained round in ancient style, which long continued to be used +by high personages from the Palace. Here the Duke and +Duchess of <a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>Kent and the late Duke of Cambridge worshipped; and from +this very pew the Duchess returned thanks after the birth of our +present gracious and beloved Queen Victoria. The brows of +other distinguished persons have been seen within the old +walls. Sir Isaac Newton, Addison (after his marriage with +the Countess of Warwick, of Holland House), Lady Margaret +Macdonald, “Lady of the Isles,” Wilberforce, George +Canning, Sir David Wilkie, Lord Macaulay, Thackeray, +&c.—all of whom were residents in Kensington, were +attendants at the parish church. Such were the minor +glories of the former house.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p2ab.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1872. The Venerable +Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar" +title= +"Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1872. The Venerable +Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar" +src="images/p2as.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>In 1866 it was seen that its fate was sealed. Competent +architects pronounced that it would not be safe to use it for +public worship more than two or three years beyond. The +closing services were held on Whit-Sunday, May 16, 1869, when +sermons were preached by the Bishop of London in the morning and +by the Vicar in the evening. The church was +crowded—said, indeed, to be “packed to the +ceiling.” Collections made on the occasion towards +the new building fund amounted to 265<i>l.</i> The church +contained no less than 114 monuments and tablets, among which one +in white marble was most conspicuous, dated 1759, in memory of +the Earl of Warwick, the Countess, and their daughter, Lady +Charlotte Rich. The Earl is represented sitting, resting +his arm on an urn and clothed in a Roman habit. All the +monuments were carefully removed before the church was pulled +down, and some, it is expected, will be reinstalled in the new +edifice.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p2bb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Design of Organ for new Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington. +Built by Hill & Son, London" +title= +"Design of Organ for new Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington. +Built by Hill & Son, London" +src="images/p2bs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>At first it was thought that the entire enterprise of the new +parish church could not be undertaken at once, for want of funds, +and it was resolved to proceed by degrees, laying the foundation +and building vestry and chancel, with a temporary nave. But +the funds shortly realised and promised encouraged the deacon and +churchwardens to build the whole of the fabric at once, with the +exception of tower and spire. The estimated cost of the +work when completed is 35,000<i>l.</i>, the tower and spire alone +being estimated to cost 10,000<i>l.</i> of the amount. The +fine old ring of bells—eight in number—which have +quickened and delighted the ears of Kensingtonians for many a +long year, will find a place in the new tower and be heard again, +and probably their joyous music be listened to by generations to +come. The spire, when completed, will be 240 feet from the +base to the vane. The estimated cost of the interior +fittings, pews, pulpit, screen, and altar is 4,460<i>l.</i> +The church will be brilliantly lit with gas, and warmed with hot +water on the most improved principle. The length of the +interior is 155 feet, and its greatest breadth 100 feet, and is +capable of accommodating 1,600 persons on one floor. There +will be no galleries. The style of the building is Gothic, +a specimen of the transitional period from the early English to +the decorated, and the architect is Mr. Gilbert Scott R.A., of +Spring-gardens; the contractors Messrs. Dove Brothers, of +Islington; and the grotesque and other carving with which the +church is ornamented is executed by Messrs. Farmer and +Brindly. The external material of the building is Kentish +rag, with selected Bath-stone dressings. From what can be +seen of the work in progress, the ample Bath-stone turrets and +mouldings will add much to the effect of the building. In +the interior there is no plaster, but the whole of the church is +faced with solid Bath ashlar. There are on plan, nave, side +aisles, and transepts. The nave will be 107 ft. and the +chancel 48 ft. long, and 27 ft. wide; the aisles are 14 ft. 6 in. +wide. There are also chancel aisles, and on the north side +of the chancel an organ chamber, and the tower—the tower +space being occupied with a vestry, from which the clergy will +pass to the chancel by a vestibule. The font is on the +north side of the west door; it is intended to be a very handsome +marble one, with a conical cover, the cost being +400<i>l.</i> Several ladies in Kensington are exerting +themselves to raise funds for this particular work. The +principal entrance to the church is on the west side, and the +door has a sumptuous carving in Bath stone over it. The +next principal entrance will be on the south side, through a +porch, and another on the north side. A scheme is projected +by the ladies of the congregation, and a plan is now preparing by +Messrs. Clayton and Bell, to fill the whole church with painted +windows. Should this be accomplished, and the eminent firm +mentioned be employed to carry it out, it will doubtless add +vastly to the effect of the interior.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p3b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"The Old Church, High Street, Kensington. In Memoriam +1697–1869" +title= +"The Old Church, High Street, Kensington. In Memoriam +1697–1869" +src="images/p3s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>It is hoped and expected by the Vicar that the church will be +opened by Easter next (1872). A very fine organ is now +being built for this handsome fabric, by Messrs. Hill and Son, of +the Euston-road, at a cost of about 1,200<i>l.</i>, to be +provided by a separate fund. This instrument has three +manuals and a pedal organ. <i>Great +Organ</i>—containing double open diapason and bourdon, 16 +feet; open diapason, 8 feet; ditto, No. 2, 8 feet; gamba, 8 feet; +stopped diapason, 8 feet; principal, 4 feet; harmonic flute, 4 +feet; 12th, 3 feet; 15th, 2 feet; mixture, 4 ranks; Posaund, 8 +feet; clarion, 4 feet. <i>Choir Organ</i>—open +diapason, 8 feet; dulciana, 8 feet; Gedact, 8 feet; Gamshorn, 4 +feet; Wald flute, 4 feet; flautina, 2 feet; clarionet, 8 +feet. <i>Swell Organ</i>—Bourdon, 16 feet; open +diapason, 8 feet; salcional, 8 feet; stopped diapason, 8 feet; +principal, 4 feet; Suabe flute, 4 feet; 12th, 3 feet: 15th, 2 +feet; mixture, 3 ranks; horn, 8 feet; oboe, 8 feet; clarion, 4 +feet. <i>Pedal Organ</i>—CCC to F, 30 notes; +sub-Bourdon, 32 feet; open diapason, 16 feet; violone, 15 feet; +Bourdon, 16 feet; principal, 8 feet; 15th, 4 ft.; trombone, 16 +ft.; 5 couplers. Up to the present time about +24,000<i>l.</i> has been received and promised to the Building +Fund, to which Her Majesty the Queen subscribes +200<i>l.</i> It will be seen, therefore, that a large +proportion of the money has yet to be raised, although no doubt +is felt that public spirit will display itself in connection with +this great public object, so as to relieve the promoters of all +anxiety as to the speedy and successful termination of their +work. Archdeacon Sinclair is the treasurer of the fund, and +the Rev. W. <a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>Wright, of 2, Bath-place, the secretary. The +present churchwardens are Charles Greenway, Esq., of 3, +Bath-place, who has filled the office for sixteen years, and +Robert Harvey, Esq., of 92, High-street, Notting-hill, who has +been in office for two years. Attached to the parish church +there are national schools, with 200 boys and 130 girls; an +infant school with 200; and a ragged-school in +Jennings’-buildings—a notoriously low part of the +town—with 60 or 70. There is also an industrial +school for young girls, where 35 or 40 are taught various useful +domestic works. There are Sunday-schools answering to the +day-schools; also a district visiting society, composed of ladies +and clergymen who visit the poor and distribute alms; and annual +collections are made for missionary and other religious and +charitable purposes.</p> +<p>The venerable Archdeacon Sinclair has been Vicar for the last +twenty-nine years, and was appointed Archdeacon soon after his +accession to the Vicarage. It is known to be a wealthy +living, but its exact value cannot be precisely stated. The +net value, however, is estimated at 912<i>l.</i> per annum. +The Vicar is well known and admired both for the elevation of his +personal character and his able and truly Evangelical +ministry. He is now well stricken in years—being +seventy-four years of age—but retains a notable degree +vigour, and preaches regularly twice every Sunday, at present to +the congregation of St. Paul’s, Palace-gardens, one of the +chapels of ease to the parish church. Christ Church, +Victoria-road, is the other. Associated with the Vicar in +the spiritual work of the parish are at present four curates, the +Rev. W. Wright, M.A., the Rev. E. T. Carey, M.A., the Rev. G. +Averill, M.A., and the Rev. J. J. T. Wilmot, M.A.</p> +<p>The principal congregation of the old church are, during the +re-building, worshipping in the vestry-hall adjoining. Here +we had the pleasure of uniting with them on the morning of +Sunday, Oct. 15, 1871. The service is a reflection of what +it was in the old temple, and what, under the venerable vicar, it +is intended to be in the new. It was plain devout Church of +England service, earnest and as inspiring as it could be in a +plain hall. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. J. T. +Wilmot, M.A., who took the whole of the service and preached the +sermon. The latter was a faithful exposition and +application of 1 Tim. i. 16—“Godliness with +contentment is great gain.” Some very pointed remarks +on the evils of the lust of riches, and the value of the gain of +godliness, were delivered in a clear and sonorous voice, and +pointed with familiar illustrations. The impression on our +minds was that such a method of conducting worship, and such a +style of pulpit or platform discourse, cannot but be the means of +doing great good.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>See Notes</i>.)</p> +<h3>ST. ANDREW AND ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH, GOLBORNE ROAD, +UPPER WESTBOURNE PARK.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> church is a recent instance of +the modern forward movement to overtake the spreading population +of the suburbs. It is situated at the extreme north of the +parish, in the midst of a vast mass of new property, which is +very properly called <i>New-town</i>, or Kensal New-town. +The parish, which was formed out of the extensive one of All +Saints’, Notting-hill, has a population of 9,000; and up to +the present has been very ill-provided with means of religious +worship. Indeed, it seems as if no effort can be abreast of +the fast-growing needs of the metropolis. But here is, at +least, a large and handsome church situate in a locality in which +<i>primâ facie</i> it would appear a very +<i>God-send</i>. Alighting at the Westbourne-park Station, +and passing over the bridge, a sign-board directs the inquirer +along the main Newtown-street, and after four or five +minutes’ walk another board points out the site of the +church. Or an equally ready way of access may now be found +from the Notting-hill Station, by the Ladbroke and +recently-opened Golborne-road. This edifice is the fruit of +private and public zeal combined. A Christian lady in +Bayswater devoted 5,000<i>l.</i> of her abundance, and the Bishop +of London’s Fund, together with some local donations, +supplied the remainder of 7,000<i>l.</i>, which was the cost of +the building. It is therefore unencumbered with debt, and +has a free and open course before it for Christian +usefulness. The ceremony of consecration took place on +Saturday, the 8th of January, 1870, when our reporter in +attendance wrote that, “Notwithstanding the furious gale +over the parish, upwards of 700 ladies and gentlemen were +present.” The then new Bishop of London (Dr. Jackson) +officiated, and was assisted in the service by the Venerable +Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington; the +Rev. A. G. Pemberton, of Kensal-green; the Rev. A. Campe; and the +Rev. R. Towers, the incumbent. A number of other clergymen +were also present, amongst whom were the Rev. R. W. Forest, the +Rev. Daniel Moore, the Rev. Bryan Hodge, the Rev. W. A. Newton, +the Rev. W. A. Bathurst, &c.</p> +<p>The building is of red brick with Bath-stone mouldings, +covered with the best Welsh slates, and surrounded on all sides +with a strong iron railing. In the exterior there is no +other particular feature, except a prettily-shaped belfry, which +is an ornament to the east front. The interior does credit +to the architect, Mr. Keeling, of Gray’s-inn; who, +forbidden the versatility of device he has displayed in St. +Mark’s, Notting-hill, St. George’s, Campden-hill, and +elsewhere, has given a free adaptation of early French +Gothic. There are a nave and aisles, separated on either +side by five handsome columns of Devonshire marble, with +carved-stone capitals, and supporting an <a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>entablature of +six arches on each side, from which a lofty groined roof spans +the nave. The arches are of variegated brick, with +Bath-stone dressings; and the higher part of the side walls in +the same, the lower part being faced with Bath-stone +ashlar. The choir and chancel are ample in dimensions, the +former being furnished with high cathedral-backed stalls, and the +former ornamented with neatly-illuminated texts, the Ten +commandments, &c., and over the communion-table the +words—which it may be hoped, will be a faithful index to +the ministry ever to be exercised in the church, “Christ is +the end of the law for righteousness to him that +believeth.” The organ is a borrowed instrument of +very inferior quality, and which is shortly to be supplanted by +one more adapted to the beautiful and spacious edifice. +Towards this most desirable improvement 40<i>l.</i> only has yet +been raised, towards 250<i>l.</i>, the estimated cost. As +the congregation and immediate neighbourhood are mainly poor, it +would be a real boon if some wealthier person or persons beyond +the district could devise the means to present to the church a +suitable instrument. The church is admirably adapted for +the free passage both of light and sound, and the plain but +variously-stained windows, without Scripture or canonical +characters, add to the beautiful effect of the whole +structure. There are no galleries; but the ground floor, +well laid out with substantial open pews, supplies accommodation +for 950, but is capable of taking 1,000 without +overcrowding. We regretted to observe that the congregation +present at the morning service were not anything like half the +number. The audience in the evening, however, is said to be +much larger, a feature very characteristic of poor localities, +where many week-day working people are seldom prepared for church +before evening on the Sabbath. The place is well warmed by +a large stove, which sent a comforting glow of heat through the +entire space; and is lit at night from ornamental pillars, each +having four branches, and each branch three jets, specially +designed by Messrs. Johnson Brothers, of High Holborn. The +floors of the aisles, choir, and chancel are inlaid with +tessellated tiles.</p> +<p>The first builder was unable to fulfil his contract, which +occasioned considerable delay; but ultimately it was taken in +hand by Messrs. Scriven and White, of Camden-town, who carried +out their engagement to perfect satisfaction.</p> +<p>Church work, in this case, is yet in its infancy, and seems to +ask for assistance. There are, however, the seeds of what, +let us hope, may prove a future moral and spiritual +harvest. The population requires to be wrought upon outside +the walls, that they may be brought more fully to comprehend +their privileges. It appears quite certain that within +there are all the means of good to them. The service is +devoutly and earnestly performed in its Evangelical +interpretation, the prayers, psalms, and creeds being read, and +responded to by the congregation. The musical part is +Gregorian plain-song; but sufficiently varied to prevent the +sense of severe monotony. The choir is at present a mixture +of male and female voices; and there is some room for +improvement, which will doubtless come when it is assisted by a +better organ. The hymn-hook is the “Church and Home +Metrical Psalter and Hymnal.” The Rev. Robert Towers, +B.A., the Vicar, was without assistance in the clerical portion +of the service. He reads in a distinct and feeling manner; +and preaches extempore, purely and properly so. His text +was taken from Matthew ix. 12: “They that be whole need not +a physician, but they that are sick,” &c. In this +discourse in simple language and illustration, we verily believe +was preached <i>the</i> truth as it is in the Gospel. We +could not but wish that the place had been crowded to hear +it. The disease of sin was scripturally set forth as +<i>inherent</i> in man’s nature, <i>hereditary</i>, +<i>loathsome</i>, <i>contagious</i>, and by all human means +<i>incurable</i>. Mr. Towers is a preacher who is not +afraid to speak of sin in appropriate terms, telling his audience +plainly that “it damns the soul and fills hell”; and +that in the world wherever it is found, “the blast of the +devil passes over, and carries its accursed infection +beyond.” As to its human incurability, “Not +even religious ceremonies in themselves could avail. +Baptism was not regeneration.” Sin would still reign +and increase “its deadly and damnable effects in the +soul,” for there was “no getting through or living it +down. It was very <i>death</i> itself.” +“But thanks be unto God that though the wages of sin be +death, the gift of God is eternal life, through our Lord Jesus +Christ.” The character and ability of the great +Physician, and the Divine mode of cure, through the application +of “the precious blood” by “the Holy +Ghost” to the repentant sinner, were impressively and +unmistakeably set forth, together with the delightful effects in +the experience of men. In short, we have never listened to +more real Gospel within thirty minutes of time than on the +morning of Sunday, November 12, 1871. We sincerely hope the +church will soon be filled, from the chancel to the +baptistry. There is a Sunday-school with about 150 +scholars, and an excellent staff of teachers. A Church of +England Young Men’s Society has been established about six +months, and supplies a number of very competent male teachers to +the school, which at present meets in the church in the +afternoon. A near site, however, for a school is already +purchased, and will be built upon as soon as funds are secured +for the purpose. Mission-rooms attached, capable of holding +about 100 persons, are at 15, Appleford-road, where a missionary +is employed and holds service Sunday afternoons and Monday +evenings; three Bible-women are also doing their useful work in +the parish. There would appear, therefore, to be much of +the machinery requisite for carrying on the work in this new +locality; but the church is entirely dependent on voluntary +support, and, the people being poor, that support is as yet but +feeble. The weekly offertory was at first adopted; but soon +discontinued, being considered unpopular, and boxes were placed +at the doors. The financial result, however, is most +insignificant; and it is evident that something more is +necessary, if this fine <a name="page5"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 5</span>church and zealous few are not to be +crippled in their energies. An earnest appeal is therefore +being made by the Vicar and the Churchwardens, Mr. W. J. Murlis +and T. Horsman, for help to meet the expenses. One thing +should not be unnoticed; a provident fund is established for the +poor, from which the sick, aged, and persons suffering from want +of work, are aided in time of need. The society adds +two-pence to every shilling deposited by the members when able, +and already between 60<i>l.</i> and 70<i>l.</i> stands to the +credit of the fund.</p> +<h3>ST. JUDE’S, SOUTH KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> new Church of St. Jude’s, +South Kensington, is situate close to the Cromwell and +Gloucester-roads, and stands out boldly, tree-less, and alone, a +striking object in the surrounding plain, looming largely in the +distance. Nor is it less striking on a closer view. +It is in the early Gothic style, some fair detail of which it +possesses, especially in the character of the west front, which +is a happy composition; but its most remarkable features consist +in the number of gables, gable-crosses, terminations, and +chimneys, the great size of some of its windows, and a certain +stilted appearance that the structure has, altogether a whole not +perfectly pleasing or picturesque. The view from the +north-west is perhaps the most telling in point of effect, but +this would be greatly improved by the addition of the tower and +spire, which we hope will soon appear, but there is a certain +comfortable-looking bell-turret which seems to say, “I +answer all purposes required.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p3b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Interior of St. Jude’s Church, South Kensington" +title= +"Interior of St. Jude’s Church, South Kensington" +src="images/p3s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The church is built of Kentish rag and Bath stone dressings, +and the roofs are covered with slate in bands of colour. +The gates and approaches when finished will add greatly to the +general appearance.</p> +<p>If the outside is peculiar, the inside, perhaps, is more +so. The building, which is slightly cruciform on plan, +covers a large area, about 135 feet long by 87 feet wide. +These dimensions are sufficient to give a great idea of space, +and this effect is increased from the fact of the floor being +nearly free from the usual obstructing columns; for although +there is the general arrangement of nave and aisles, yet the +slight iron columns, that support the arcades offer but very +little impediment either to sight or sound. The acoustic +properties are exceedingly good, and the preacher can be seen and +heard to advantage from all points; whilst the large north and +south windows admit such volumes of light that there is an entire +absence of that “dim religious light” favoured by a +section of the English Church.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p4b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"View of St. Jude’s Church, South Kensington" +title= +"View of St. Jude’s Church, South Kensington" +src="images/p4s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Architecturally the iron columns are suggestive of having too +much to do—looking weak and unequal to the task of +supporting the pretty nave roof and coloured-brick arches; this +is especially the case with the columns at the transepts. +The iron, as we have said, from its lightness, assists sight and +sound, but then beauty is sacrificed to utility, which to some +extent we think unfortunate; but the church has evidently been +designed to assist the preacher’s voice, and therefore we +must congratulate the architect, Mr. J. H. Godwin, of Brompton, +on his complete success. The prevailing buff colour of the +bricks, being imitated in the painting of the columns, is not +pleasing, and we think may be altered with advantage. The +church will hold 1,700 persons, and the galleries add to the +auditorium, but are no assistance to effect, and compel the use +of a stilted and old-fashioned pulpit.</p> +<p>The organ-chamber and a capital vestry are at the north-east +angle of the church, and the baptistry, at the west end, is well +arranged and contains a handsomely-designed early font. The +east window is of stained glass, illustrating the life of +Christ. The doors are ample and admit of good entrance and +exit. The pewing is comfortable and compact. The +school class rooms and offices below account for the stilted +appearance before referred to.</p> +<p>St. Jude’s is one of the latest and most noticeable +instances of aggressive effort on the part of the Established +Church. It was originated by the Rev. J. A. Aston, late +Vicar of St. Stephen’s, Kensington, to provide for the +spreading suburban population in that part, and has cost, as it +now stands, 10,000<i>l.</i>, which is entirely the munificent +gift to the district of Mr. J. D. Allcroft, of 55, +Porchester-terrace, and Wood-street, E.C. When all +complete, including the site and the vicarage shortly to be +erected, the cost will be about 19,000<i>l.</i>, the additional +9,000<i>l.</i> being jointly guaranteed by Mr. Allcroft, the Rev. +J. A. Aston, and the present Vicar. There is a capital +organ, ably presided at by Mr. M. Lochner, having four manuals, +and favoured on the choir organ with that very rare stop, the +<i>Vox Humana</i>, and capable of enlargement. This fine +instrument was built by Mr. H. Wedlake, of Fitzroy-square, at a +cost of 700<i>l.</i>, and is another of the grand offerings in +connexion with the St. Jude enterprise—being the sole gift +of Mrs. Walter Powell of Notting-hill. The largest of the +three rooms underneath the east end of the church is forthwith to +be fitted up. It is capable of holding 400 people, and to +be used for the purpose of meetings, Sunday-schools, +&c. It is not intended at present to have +day-schools.</p> +<p>Although opened for Divine Service so recently as the 23rd of +Dec., 1870, it has within three months collected within its walls +one of the largest congregations to be met with around +London. It is estimated to accommodate 1,700 +worshippers—and on a special occasion it might very well +contain 2,000. On Sunday morning, February 26, there were +from 1,500 to 1,600 present, and the church did not present a +crowded appearance. A glance over the large assembly showed +that it contained scarcely a sprinkling of the lower or labouring +classes. It was composed almost entirely of the aristocracy +and gentle people of the district, together with the middle and +trading classes. The sittings are let <a +name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>at 2<i>l.</i> +2s., 35s., 30s., and 20s. per year; but as one-third of the +entire number are to be <i>free</i>, it may be hoped that the +“rich and the poor” will here also meet together +before Him “who is the Maker of them all.”</p> +<p>The service is a vigorous rendering of the plain Church +Service, cautiously guarded against Ritualistic signs. The +members of the choir are not robed in white, nor have they +anything to distinguish them but the place they occupy. The +clergy wear a simple surplice at prayers, and appear in the +pulpit in a black gown. The Rev. R. W. Forrest, M.A., of +Trin. Col., Dublin, the first vicar of this new church, was +transferred to it from the Lock Chapel, Paddington, having been +previously incumbent of St. Andrew’s, Liverpool. In +Paddington he enjoyed a well-deserved popularity, which appears +still to attend him in his new sphere of duty. In +appearance he is about forty years of age, tall and commanding in +presence, and possessing a strong pleasant voice, used with ease +and heard without effort in the remotest corner of the spacious +edifice. His reading of the Holy Scriptures is specially +distinct, natural, and impressive. The pulpit discourse was +founded on Heb. iv., and part of the 16th verse, “But was +in all points tempted, like as we are, yet without +sin.” It was a practical and touching illustration of +our Lord’s temptations in their bearing upon the experience +and present comfort of his people, and, being delivered +<i>extempore</i>, brought the preacher into direct sympathy with +his audience. The Rev. F. Moran (curate) assisted in +reading the prayers—a clergyman who also possesses a clear +and distinct enunciation—suitable to the place and the +congregation. Among Mr. Forrest’s hearers on the +occasion of our visit were Bishop Barker, of Sydney, Metropolitan +of Australia, and the Dean of Ripon.</p> +<h3>ST. MATTHIAS WARWICK ROAD, EARL’S COURT, SOUTH +KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Church of St. Matthias, +Warwick-road, Earl’s-court, Kensington, is within sight of +St. Jude’s, and, like it, stands almost alone in the open +fields. It has no boundary walls or fences, unless a +broken-down hedge on the east side can be called a fence. +Externally, as a structure, there are no very pleasing features; +the permanent and temporary portions do not harmonise, and, +indeed, the chancel and aisles, the only parts finished, have not +in point of detail and design much to recommend their brick walls +with bath stone dressings and window tracery of simple +character. Of course the temporary portions as such cannot +fairly be criticised; yet if we must have temporary churches and +of corrugated iron, we see no reason why they should not be +picturesque, or at any rate sightly.</p> +<p>Internally the temporary nave has no attempt at appearance or +effect, a remarkable fact seeing that the Anglican school +generally pride themselves upon effects. A matched-boarded +lining to walls and roof is simply varnished, the glazing of the +windows is rendered shocking to taste by masses of blue and red +colour, and a box pulpit is too much like a box. The +excessively plain chancel, arch, and arcades, and general detail +of the windows, have evidently been designed with a view to +economy; and if, when the nave is built, the same quiet spirit is +adopted, we shall be anxious to learn the cost of the structure, +which will certainly be a minimum sum, and valuable to note in +these church-building days. The style is early +English. The dwarf stone parapet and ornamental iron screen +across the chancel arch form rather a nice feature, and the +stall-seats are of good design.</p> +<p>The east window is partly filled with effective stained glass, +and as the predominant colour is blue, it is vexatious that the +side-lights, not yet completed, are screened with green +blinds.</p> +<p>Two figures of saints over the altar-table are not clearly +seen—one might be St. Matthias; and the reredos might as +well have English written on it—the unlearned could then +understand and appreciate.</p> +<p>St. Matthias stands in the midst of a poor district, which was +originally cut off from St. Philip’s, Kensington. A +temporary iron church was first opened on April 17, 1869, and the +permanent chancel was consecrated and opened on the following +10th of July. Nave and chancel together accommodate from +700 to 750 persons. The cost of the whole structure has +been 4,800<i>l.</i>; and it is intended if possible to build the +nave this year 1871, which will cost about 4,000<i>l.</i> or +5,000<i>l.</i> more. The architect is Mr. J. H. Hatrevile, +5, Southmolton-street. There are no appropriated sittings; +all are free, and the church is always open for public or private +prayer. It is supported by the offertory alone, which in +1869–70 amounted to the sum of 1,100<i>l.</i>, and in +1870–71 it will amount, we are informed, to +1,600<i>l.</i> Out of this all the expenses of the church +and the charities and the clergy are met. There are three +<i>priests</i> attached—the Rev. S. C. Haines, M.A., the +Vicar; the Revs. H. Westall, A.K.C., and S. Martin. There +is a superb organ built by Jones, of the Fulham-road, with three +manuals, forty stops, and 2,255 pipes, at a cost of +700<i>l.</i> The choir is large—about fifty in +number—under the precentorship of Mr. J. Elwin, of 21, +Coleherne-road, Brompton, professor of musical elocution. +During Lent there is daily Communion at eight <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, four services every day, and five on +Friday, when there is an extra Communion at eleven <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span></p> +<p>The service is Gregorian plain song, and on the morning of +March 5, the second Sunday in Lent, the ceremonial is described +as being extremely ornate and symbolical. Our +representative says: The chancel is unusually deep, the space +between the altar and the railing being apparently designed <a +name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>with a view to +Ritualistic development. In fact, it is a large stage on +which a numerous company can play their parts. The +choristers wear surplices, and the clergy, over the surplice, a +stole, which is at the present season of the true Lenten +violet—according to the practice of Ritualists—who +use the symbolic colours of violet for Lent, black for Good +Friday, red for Martyrs, yellow for Confessors, and so on. +The altar-cloth and pulpit-cover, and even the offering-bags, are +also of the same tinge, the latter being embossed with a white +cross. The prayers were intoned by Mr. Westall, a young +gentleman whose voice is in some danger of collapsing from sheer +tension of monotone. The Ritualists have attained +perfection in denying to nature its own freedom and flexibility +of voice. The lessons were read by the second curate, Mr. +Martin, who, we learn, is new to the church, and whose voice, +trained in the true Anglican style—rises always where it +ought to fall, and <i>vice versâ</i>. The bowings, +curtseys, and genuflexions of this service are so numerous and +complicate, we almost despair of tracing them. Not only in +the Creed, but in every other part where the name of the Saviour +occurred and on every repetition of the <i>Gloria Patri</i>, +there was a low curtsey as long as the body could be conveniently +bent, which had a most singular effect in the general aspect of +the congregation. In the Nicene Creed, in the part +“Light of light” and up to “rose again,” +there was a sudden drop of voice to a mere whisper—which, +being quite unprepared for at the moment, might startle one into +the idea that the congregation and choir had simultaneously lost +their vocal power. But all this was merely dramatic. +On entering the Communion Service the <i>processional</i> hymn is +sung, during which the clergy three abreast commence their +pilgrimage to the altar. They approach it by three stages, +pausing at every one, and on arrival bow and cross themselves, +and then dispose themselves on the left, in line with their backs +to the congregation—one a step above the other—the +highest reading the Commandments, turning meanwhile to the +people. They then break line again, and one reads the +Epistle for the day; they form inline again, and the centre +figure, the Vicar, reads the Gospel, during which the curate at +his feet turns towards him obliquely, bending in a worshipping +attitude. After the Creed—and so as to chime in with +the close—the Vicar passes with a sharp step to the pulpit, +which is as close to the chancel as it can be; and on entering +it, whilst the people are still standing, crosses himself, +fronting them, and repeats quickly, “To God, the Father, +Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen,” and at once announces his +text. The short prayer before sermon is dispensed +with. The motion with the finger to the two shoulders and +the forehead is the great feature at this point.</p> +<p>The sermon was founded on 1 Cor. i. 20—“Where is +the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer +of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this +world?” Having on the previous Sunday treated of +bodily mortification and fasting, the preacher would now speak of +the subjugation of human imagination, intellect and reason to the +dominion of truth—of the folly of the “wise,” +the “scribe,” the “disputer of this +world,” in view of the “wisdom of God.” +In what was mainly an <i>extempore</i> address, aided only by +copious notes, and accompanied by much declamation and earnest +action, Mr. Haines denounced the intellect and literature of the +day as extremely sordid, timeserving, and egotistic. It was +“a day of advertisements,” when intellect was +“bought and sold over the counter,” when one might +“buy all the intellect of England for gold, and for so many +guineas have so many pages;” and if in any case pride +prevented this degradation, literature was then “but the +expression of an extreme egotism.” Periodicals and +books were “pretentious and misleading;” the novels +of the age embodied its “sensualistic intellect;” our +art in its exhibitions handed down pictures and ideas of +depravity. “It would be well if the scientific world +would send forth no more theories.” In short the +preacher held in the profoundest contempt all the ordinary +exercises of the human mind and reason. Perverted intellect +had produced anarchy in America, revolution and bloodshed in +Europe; and in the history of Christianity there had been nothing +but contention and division since the intellect of the church +first departed from the “holy Catholic religion,” and +so rendered government impossible. The preacher eulogised, +indeed, intellect <i>sitting at the feet of Christ</i>; but this +was so explained as to mean, in fact, sitting at the feet of +“Holy Catholic Church.” This part of the sermon +was, to our minds, a virtual denouncement of the Protestant +Reformation. In speaking of the mysteries of religion +against which the world’s intellect revolted, the preacher +adverted to that one, “the sacrifice of the altar,” +which they were then daily celebrating. “Christ was +in Heaven, but he was also there, yea,” glancing round to +the spot, “on that altar was the real body and the real +blood of our Lord.” Would they deny these mysteries +because they could not understand them? Were there not +mysteries in all nature? and did not the saint see all around him +the great sacrifice of nature—the outward and visible sign +of the inward, present, and omnipotent God? After sermon +the preacher returns to the altar, when a fourth functionary +appears, whom we suppose must be termed an acolyte. He +carries in his hand a taper, with which he proceeds to light the +candles in the candelabra at either end of the altar, each having +seven lights. A hymn is being sung and the collection made +at the same time, and when ended the offertory bags are borne to +the altar, and, being solemnly placed upon it, one of the +priests, prostrating himself before it, raises the offering high +towards the cross, and there holds it for some moments in the act +of consecration, after which the Benediction is pronounced. +The church in the morning is filled with a congregation chiefly +composed of the higher middle classes of the people, and in the +evening principally of the poor of the immediate locality.</p> +<h3><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>ST. +PHILIP’S, SOUTH KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p>A <span class="smcap">pleasant</span> walk on a Sunday morning +from westward, through that fashionable part of Kensington known +as the Addison-road and Warwick-gardens, brings us to the Church +of St. Philip, which stands at the corner where the +Earl’s-court and Pembroke-roads join. It is a brick +structure in the perpendicular decorated style belonging to the +fifteenth century; and as, with its modest spire, it comes into +view, and the worshippers slowly moving up every main approach, +in response to the “church-going bell,” the whole +produces a very pleasing effect. As one silently views the +interior a somewhat mystical impression imperceptibly steals upon +him. The architect, Mr. Thomas Johnson, of Lichfield, would +appear to have studied and followed out the ideal of a former +period in the details generally. This is especially seen in +the windows, the arcades, &c. The nave has a lofty +aspect, much more so than would be expected from the exterior +view.</p> +<p>This church was built in 1858, and its district taken +principally out of St. Barnabas, with a small portion from the +old Kensington parish. It originally had accommodation for +1,000, but, in consequence of the increasing demand, it was +enlarged in 1862 to 1,400 sittings, 500 of which are free. +The cost of both the original building and the subsequent +enlargement has been almost entirely borne by the Vicar, the Rev. +J. Dickson Claxton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, he +having been aided only to the amount of 1,400<i>l.</i> or +1,500<i>l.</i> in subscriptions, which were towards the first +erection. The enlargement was carried out at his own sole +cost. The great need of this was manifest from the magic +rapidity with which population increased in the neighbourhood of +the church. It stood at 8,000 until recently—the +spring of 1869—when the formation of the sub-district of +St. Matthias reduced it to 5,000. But so rapid is the +growth that it has already again risen to fully 6,000. +There is at present but one curate, the Rev. J. C. Sykes, B.A., +of Queen’s College, Cambridge.</p> +<p>Three schools are in part connected with the church, being +maintained in conjunction with St. Barnabas, and containing +altogether upwards of 600 children.</p> +<p>The other charities maintained alone by St. Philip’s are +several. There are “A Provident Fund and District +Visiting Charity,” a “Maternity Charity,” +“Work Charity,” “Soup Charity,” +“Blanket Charity,” and “Old Clothing +Charity.” Taking the year round it would seem that a +large amount of temporal comfort most be distributed over the +poorer parts of the district by these benevolent +operations. The church itself contains several objects of +interest worthy of note. There is a splendid reredos of +Caen stone and alabaster, and a peculiarly handsome altar-rail of +vert antique and alabaster. Over the altar is a beautiful +stained window by Heaton and Butler, at the west end an immense +and magnificent one to the memory of the late Lord Holland, also +two other small memorial windows, all by the same firm. The +organ is a superior instrument by Walker, of the Tottenham-court +road, and cost upwards of 600<i>l.</i> It is played by Mrs. +Higgins—whose husband holds the post of master over a choir +without surplices, chiefly voluntary, aided by a few paid +voices. Under the same direction there a large choral +association connected with church. The services are +principally, through not exclusively, Anglican. In the +morning the responses are intoned, and at night the choral is +adopted. Daily prayer at 9.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 5 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> On Sundays there is a +children’s service at 9.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +and full service at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 3.30 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and at 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> The weekly offertory, and +proceeds of the Communion Service twice a month, are solely +relied upon for the maintenance of the charities and church +expenses, in lieu of church rates.</p> +<p>The vestments of the clergy are of the simplest and most +irreproachable kind, and the performance of the service according +to the order of the Common Prayer. There is certainly no +trifling with rubrics, and no need for dexterous evasion of +ecclesiastical injunctions. Yet the service we attended was +earnest and solemn. The curate read audibly, and the +preacher, who happened not to be the Vicar, was scholarly and +Evangelical. But, on the whole, the service might be deemed +a little too quiet to be a perfect model of what a service in our +English Church should be. As to the general ministry under +the Rev. J. D. Claxton, whom we had not the pleasure of hearing +in <i>propria persona</i>, its effects must be taken as proofs of +its acceptableness and usefulness. Commencing, as we +understand, with an original congregation of ninety, he has had +the gratification of seeing it increase to 1,400, and that, too, +whilst so many other churches and chapels have risen all +around. The congregation appeared to our eye to bear that +settled and orderly aspect which is one of the readiest proofs of +ministerial success and pastoral fidelity; and not the least +pleasing feature was the large number of the poorer people who +filled the free seats, and regarded with attention and reverence +every part of the service. An official kept the door, who +cannot be termed a verger, scarcely a beadle, but who, if he had +no rod or robe, or staff, had a coat with bright buttons fixed +upon a brown cloth. He handed the stranger over to the care +of a matronly-looking female inside, with a white cap, who very +courteously led the way to a seat. When there, the general +effect upon us undoubtedly was that we were in a church of <i>the +people</i>—one where <i>the people</i> were to be found +quite at home in their worship of the Creator, and free from the +stiffness and restraint of more tinselled and conventional +forms.</p> +<h3><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>ST. +STEPHEN’S, GLOUCESTER ROAD.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Stephen’s</span>, close to the +Queen’s-gate-gardens in the Gloucester-road, South +Kensington, is a very handsome and well-proportioned church, and +is a pretty object seen from the Cromwell-road. The +composition of its west front is remarkably good, and indeed +there exists an agreeable harmony in the design and in the quiet +general tone of colour in the stone of which it is built that is +pleasing to the eye. There is a refined look about the +building, and perhaps it would not be too much to say that it +seems accustomed to good society. To the architect there +are some portions of the detail rather interesting. The +cloistered doorways beneath the buttresses, the triplet and +rose-windows of the east front, and the north porch and back +turret are all worthy of remark. The interior is +exceedingly effective and elegant. Again the harmony +strikes one as perfect; there is a peaceful influence produced by +the quiet colouring and grey columns and excellent proportions of +the church, such as ought to belong to the house of God. +There is nothing glaring, nothing particular to arrest or attract +the eye, yet every part is worthy of inspection, and the parts +taken together produce one of the best and most exquisitely +charming interiors with which we are acquainted in this +neighbourhood. The plan of the church may be said to be +cruciform, and is divided into a nave and aisles, north and south +transepts, and chancel and aisles. The grey columns of the +nave support the arcades and clerestory, and the light nave roof +springs from angel-corbelled columns. The chancel arch is +well-proportioned, and the dog-tooth enrichments harmonise with +the caps of the columns. The chancel is parted from the +aisles by light screens supported by alabaster columns, and on +the north side above the screen is the organ loft, and the south +side is occupied by a gallery. The chancel itself is simply +decorated, the Communion-table space without any colouring other +than of the softest kind. Three figures of saints occupy +the triplet—St. Stephen filling the centre, and St. John +and St. Paul the side lights; the rose window over has the +Saviour in His Ascension scene. The stone pulpit on the +north side of the chancel arch is well designed, and its little +alabaster and coloured marble columns relieve the still colour of +the stone. The font, of similar design, occupies a slight +recess in the baptistry, close to the north porch door. An +octagonal vestry is at the south east angle of the church. +A new west gallery is not exactly an improvement to the +effect. The pewing and stall seats are of good +design. The passages are floored with tiles of simple +pattern. The architecture is early English.</p> +<p>The one drawback to the external appearance of this church is +its want of relative elevation. Its base appears to drop +about two feet below the level of the roads and ways which form +its approaches. The fault was that of the architect, who +did not calculate on the effect of making-up roads where they had +not previously existed. In 1866, when the church was built, +that part of South Kensington was only beginning to open +up. The base of the edifice should, therefore, have been +raised. But instead of this the architect appears to have +proceeded in utter disregard of the near and certain future of +the locality. The result is that whereas originally steps +upward were required to enter by the gates, it is now necessary +to descend in reaching the interior; and a flat and depressed +aspect is thus given to a building which would otherwise have +been a most prominent and pleasing object in the view. We +understand it is intended to add a spire to the edifice very +shortly, and this will probably somewhat relieve to the eye the +defect of which we have spoken.</p> +<p>The church was built under the ministry of the Rev. J. A. +Aston, M.A., to replace an iron church which for some time he +occupied on the opposite side of the road. The same +continued minister until the autumn of 1870, when he was +succeeded by the present officiating minister, the Rev. J. P. +Waldo, M.A. The progress made under Mr. Aston’s +pastorate is seen from the circumstance that it was found +necessary in two or three years to increase the accommodation by +the building of galleries on the west and south sides. This +work was completed in March, 1870, at a cost of 600<i>l.</i>, by +Mr. Aldin, of Queen’s-gate-place. The cost of the +whole, when completed, we are told will not be less than +20,000<i>l.</i>, a very high figure when it is considered that +the church has no more land than that on which it stands, and the +narrow bare paths around it. There are about 1,150 +sittings, which let at an average of 2<i>l.</i> 2s. per annum +each, leaving about 150 sittings free—1,300 in all, which +appear to be well occupied by a congregation of a superior +class. Out of the pew-rents and collections the clergy and +the church are supported. There are temporary day and +Sunday schools attached, situated in the Queen’s-gardens, +near the site, where from one to two hundred children are +instructed. The organ is very ably played by Mr. +Lowe. The choir is composed of both males in plain dress +and females.</p> +<p>The prayers were read and also the psalms, with the exception +of the first, which was chanted. There is no variance from +the accepted English and Evangelical mode of conducting +worship. The hymn book is the “Church and Home +Metrical Psalter and Hymnal,” selections from various +authors. The congregation did not join with so much zest +and animation in the service as could be desired, except in one +hymn—“Lord of the Worlds above,” &c., the +peculiarly lively words and music of which appeared to evoke +devotional feeling and dispel restraint. We are sorry, +however, to see this hymn, which in its original dress, as it +stands in another hymn-book, is one of the finest in the +language, so sadly mutilated by the simple act of transference +from one collection to another. We deplore <a +name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>the liberty +which editors of our numerous collections sometimes take with the +productions of even our best hymn-writers. Why should this +be so? We have never seen an alteration of this kind which +has not been for the worse as it regards both thought and +expression. The curate reads well and agreeably to the ear, +in a voice more remarkable for clearness than strength. The +vicar, the Rev. Mr. Waldo, is still new to the audience, having +been at St. Stephen’s about four months. His vocal +powers and reading are good; the former have not that compass +which enables them to meet the requirements of the large +congregation with the greatest ease. The sermon, founded on +Gen. xlv. 5, was an elegant piece of composition, not only +<i>read</i>, but <i>delivered</i> in the reading, which is not +always the case. The thoughts presented on the +<i>general</i> and <i>special</i> providence of God, as unfolded +in the history of Joseph, were those of a devout, thoughtful, and +cultivated mind, and most comforting to the troubled and +disconsolate. From what we saw and heard, we have much +pleasure in recording our belief that good Christian work is +being done at St. Stephen’s.</p> +<h3>CHRIST CHURCH, SOUTH KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> church, which stands at the +foot of the Victoria road, might have been much better placed, so +as to be seen in perspective, which indeed its near appearance +would warrant. Its fair and well-proportioned tower and +spire would then have formed a striking object, and might have +been visible even from Kensington-gardens. Could it be +lifted out of the pit in which it seems to nestle at the dark end +of a road which is no thoroughfare, and out of its unsightly +surroundings in Cornwall-gardens, it would be an immense benefit +to the mere appearance of the building. The building in +itself is generally very simple, but not without effect. It +is built of ragstone with bath-stone dressings, and covered with +slate. The enclosure is nicely planted, neatly kept, and +fenced with dwarf walls. Internally the church is +unimposing. The nave and aisles are surmounted by a +heavy-looking but plain roof—without clerestory +lights. The tower space on the north side of the chancel, +is occupied as an organ chamber. The chancel is quite plain +and without aisles. In the windows, which are of good +design and filled with glass of geometrical patterns, there is an +absence of stained glass and decoration; which in reality the +church requires, to relieve that tame and cold look, which some +day might be slightly altered with advantage. A large +gallery at the west end does not tend to lighten the interior +aspect of the church; nor do the exposed heating pipes, which it +would be better to conceal from view. The font, pulpit, and +pewing are of plain design, and the passages are paved with red +and black tiles, laid diagonally. Christ Church is a +chapelry of ease to the parish church of St. Mary Abbotts, +Kensington, or rather a trust chapel, served by the Venerable +Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar of Kensington. It was opened and +consecrated July 23, 1851, by Bishop Blomfield. The present +officiating ministers are the Rev. W. Wright, the morning and +evening preacher, who has been curate since 1855, and is now +termed the “senior curate.” The Rev. E. T. +Carey is the second curate and afternoon preacher, and entered +upon his duty in 1869. Both ministers are much esteemed; +and from the impressions of our visit the estimation in which +they are held is well founded. Mr. Carey read the prayers +and lessens in good voice, and with an evident mental +appreciation of their religious sense and application. Mr. +Wright officiated in the Communion Service and preached the +sermon. His voice is penetrating, if not full, and leaves +the most dull-eared without excuse. His sermon was an able +and faithful exposition of Psalms 142 and 4th +verse—“Refuge failed me; no man cared for my +soul.” The distinction between the circumstances of +the Psalmist and his times and our own was finely drawn. In +the former case every incident of temporal life—adverse or +favourable—was interpreted as a certain indication of the +Divine favour or displeasure. With us it was not so much +so. We had in general every spiritual advantage; although +there were yet some, as at the East-end of London, who, from the +scarcity of religious provision, might still say, “No man +careth for my soul.” In short we quite thought we +were listening to a charity sermon; and after so touching an +appeal on behalf of the spiritually destitute, prepared ourselves +for a collection. Mr. Wright, however, has our best thanks +for touching in so delicate a manner a very sensitive chord in +our moral nature.</p> +<p>The chapel is capable of holding 700 persons, and there are +less than 100 free sittings; but although it was supposed to have +not only its own, but also many of the congregation of the parish +church—which is closed for re-erection—it was by no +means full. It is hoped, when the central church is +completed and reopened, it will have a good effect in the +locality, and help to supply the dependent church with an +adequate congregation. We have known churches and chapels +in the worst situations, under special influence, to be filled +with devout worshippers; but they are occasions too rare. +Would that we could see them more frequently! One remark +made by the preacher in speaking of the need of churches at the +East-end was much to the point. It was to the effect that +it would be useless to build churches unless there were efficient +ministers to carry on the service and occupy the pulpit. +Mr. Wright appears to have reflected long enough to learn that <a +name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>the greatest +problem of the day is, after all not how churches may be built, +but rather how, when built, they may be suitably and successfully +served. Here is a good organ under the care of Mr. Brain, +of the Eldon-road, but no choir. It is, therefore, purely +congregational singing assisted by the organ.</p> +<h3>ST. MARY’S, WEST BROMPTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Church of St. Mary, West +Brompton, from its position in the centre of the Boltons, can be +seen from many points of view to great advantage. It is in +the decorated Gothic style, and is an exceedingly good specimen +of the Revival of Gothic architecture, having been built some +fifteen years ago. Built in the shape of a cross, its tower +and spire rise at the intersection of the nave, chancel, and +transepts, and are in excellent proportion. The spire is +octagonal, and is terminated at its junction with the tower by a +pierced parapet with angels at the angles. The octagonal +portion of the tower is continued downwards below the tower +lights, when it becomes square, with corbelled angels at the four +corners. The west front is well designed, and surmounted by +a corbelled bell turret, in which hang the only two bells the +church possesses, though there would appear to be ample room in +the empty tower for a chime. The ragstone of which the +church is built, with Bath stone tracing and dressings, has now +enough of age to give a softened look to the exterior generally, +and the young spring foliage and well-kept surrounding gardens +lend their aid to make a rather pretty picture. Internally +the church is effective, especially the view from the west end; +but the absence of the usual nave arcades and aisle give a long, +narrow look to the church, and take from the idea of its size, as +at this point the transepts cannot in any way be seen. The +nave roof is heavy, and the apostle corbels that support it too +large and too near the eye to be in good taste. The choir +stalls have lately been extended westwards under the tower space, +and the pulpit, of very peculiar design, being more properly a +rostrum, though by no means unsightly, stands at the north side +of the nave arch, and a recently-erected gallery across the north +transept contains the organ. The small vestry is at the +north-east angle of the church. The chancel has lately been +redecorated and made to agree with the usual arrangements of the +Anglican school of worship. The stained glass in the east +windows is poor, representing the Ascension some geometrical +patterns fill some of the other windows, likewise of a very poor +character. The pewing is very plain, and the passages are +paved with tiles. The stone font is large and very well +executed. The church, as we before said, is a Revival +church, and as such it would be unfair to criticise it too much; +but, on the contrary, much praise is due to the architect, Mr. +Godwin, for giving so fair a specimen of Gothic work when the art +was at so low an ebb.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p10ab.jpg"> +<img alt= +"St. Mary’s Church, The Boltons, West Brompton" +title= +"St. Mary’s Church, The Boltons, West Brompton" +src="images/p10as.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The performance of Divine worship at St. Mary’s is +decidedly of the High Church order, with a Ritualistic +tendency. In this it differs from what it was under Mr. +Swaile, the first minister of the church, and even under Mr. +Pearson the second. The present vicar, the Rev. W. T. Du +Boulay, M.A., has been there about two years, and during his time +a constant Higher tendency has been observed. This has been +traceable in the large increase of public services and +Eucharistic celebrations. The latter takes place every +Sunday morning at eight, and on every alternate Sunday at the +eleven o’clock service as well. After Lent we +understand a still further increase was intended in the number of +these in ordinary. During Lent and other great festivals +there is a celebration every morning at the early service, on +Good Friday two, and on Easter Sunday three. Apart from +this, the whole aspect of things in the chancel looks towards +Ritualism. Thus, for instance, the Communion-table, or what +High Churchmen call the “Altar” or +“Altar-table,” is surmounted by a large gilt cross, +which from its exceeding brightness forms a most conspicuous +figure—also two large candlesticks, and other lustrous +objects. The cover is of deep violet, trimmed with white, +and all the moveable furniture, even to the cushions of the +chancel, desks, and pulpit, are of the same—this being the +colour used by the High Church party during Lent. The +choristers number over thirty, and are led in procession to the +choir, the people all rising as they and the clergy enter. +The vestments are a surplice with the cassock underneath, and +visible below the knees; and in addition, the clergy themselves +wear the usual sign of degree. No change of dress is made +for the pulpit. The Curate—the Rev. Arthur +Veysey—intones the prayers, in, we may say, the most +perfect style we have yet heard out of a cathedral. His +voice is sonorous, and he has cultivated the manner of intoning +to a high degree. He has certain little varieties, too, of +his own, which render such a method of performing worship as +pleasant as it can be. Thus the note is altered in the +absolution, and the voice dropped to the lowest tenor, and at the +same time quickened; and then again at the Lord’s Prayer a +strong bass is put on in a low key. In like manner the +Collects were sung quickly in an undertone. At every +mention of the Saviour’s name, whether in the prayers, the +<i>Gloria Patri</i>, creeds, epistle, or gospel, the reader +bowed. And as in the latter it was often named, the +frequent bowing of the head must have been a great task; for in +this case the Curate read the gospel as well as the epistle, +passing in the act from one side of the chancel to the +other. The Vicar read the lessons well and distinctly, and +<a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 12</span>preached +the sermon. On entering the pulpit the customary invocation +was not used; but, standing erect and glancing eastward, the +preacher simply uttered the words, “The Father, Son, and +Holy Ghost,” and at once proceeded. Too little, to +our minds, was made of the sermon; it was a short homily in the +midst of the service, very good in its way. It consisted +largely of exhortation, found on Phil. ii. 3, in which the +Saviour was presented as an example of passive and active +obedience, and some very practical remarks were made. +Quietly useful this style of preaching may be when based on pure +Gospel doctrine and view; but it is one from which the old power +and higher effect of the pulpit are absent. A novelty, at +least to us, occurred in this service. Instead of the usual +hymn on the minister entering within the Communion rail, another +form is adopted, called the “Introit,” which is a +selection of Scripture adapted as much as possible to the day, +and sung as an anthem by the choir. To our modern ears the +Introit is new; but it is in reality an old thing, in this and +some other instances revived. In the first Prayer-book of +Edward VI. there is a psalm, containing something proper to the +day, printed before every collect, epistle, and gospel. +This, from being sung or said whilst the minister made his +entrance within the rails, was called <i>introitus</i> or +<i>introit</i>. There is, therefore, an ancient reference +in the adoption of this form; and by adoption of the name as well +as the form, the Vicar of St. Mary’s betrays a certain +mediæval direction in church matters. It is, in our +opinion, far from an improvement. The “Introit” +is a poor substitute for the devotional hymn, in which all the +congregation can join, and which has no particular reference to +the minister’s bodily movements.</p> +<p>There are connected with this church, a National School, +situated in the Chelsea-grove, Fulham-road, and a Sunday-school, +containing about one hundred scholars; and it is a pleasing +circumstance that the ordinary afternoon service on Sunday is +given to the children, and is called the “Children’s +Service,” consisting of the Litany and catechising. +There is also a lending library in the schoolroom, where books +are given out and exchanged every Monday between twelve and one +o’clock, the subscription being only one penny per +month. There are District Visitors, and a +“Mother’s Meeting” is held at the Vicarage on +Mondays from 3 to 5 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> There +are also a Maternal Charity, Coal, Clothing, Shoe, and Blanket +Clubs, and even a “Guild” or association for +servants. It is clear that the Rev. Mr. Du Boulay has laid +himself out for extensive influence and usefulness, and, there is +no reason to doubt, in all Christian sincerity. But there +are certain forms and ecclesiastical signs about his church +arrangements which in many minds cause fear, lest his zeal should +not in its effects prove to be of the purest Evangelical +character. We regret this very much, as the impression on +our own minds of his personal spirit was most favourable. +It is of course within his power to remove anything from before +his congregation that tends to impair his usefulness. +Experience will, no doubt, suggest to him that the Ritualistic +line, or, what is really the same, the High Church, is not that +in which a clergyman can now be so religiously useful as we are +convinced Mr. Du Boulay desires to be. He has daily matins +at 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and evening song at 5 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, choral celebrations at great festivals +and on the third Sunday in every month; and the Litany on +Wednesdays and Fridays at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> The musical arrangements for +Easter Sunday, were very extensive and elaborate, and the music +entirely Anglican. Less singing, more genuine prayer, with +able and earnest preaching, would, as many think and feel, be a +vast improvement in the services of this church. The choir +is a partly paid one; and the organist, Mr. Buttery, of 173, +Piccadilly, is highly esteemed both by the clergy and +congregation, and no less so by the choir over which he +presides. There are 720 sittings, 220 of which are +free. There are no endowments; the church and services are +supported by pew rents, valued at about 350<i>l.</i> per annum, +and by the offertory, which raises about 440<i>l.</i> per +annum. The numerous charities and the schools, together +with the Water-side Mission Association, and one in aid of the +Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, all have their +distinct funds and resources; not at present to any large extent, +but all capable of extension. There is a strong band of +district visitors—consisting of fourteen or sixteen, +chiefly ladies, with a few gentlemen, to whose care as many +districts are allotted.</p> +<p>One of the most remarkable things connected with St. +Mary’s is what the vicar has called the “Guild of St. +Michael,” an association for female domestic servants, the +object of which is stated to be to help and comfort “those +who are striving to get their own living and to do their +duty.” Among the terms of admission are: A +year’s good character from last employer; that they be +monthly communicants; that they engage to add to their morning +and evening prayers a <i>short prayer</i> which will be given on +admission; that they regularly deposit in a savings bank; that on +the feast of St. Michael and All Angels they send back their +cards of admission and receive fresh ones, and promise not to +attend fairs, races, dancing, or music-halls. The +privileges held out to secure obedience to this unique code are +that at an annual meeting “refreshments will be +provided,” a monthly paper to be sent to each, the benefit +of a registry and the society’s recommendation for +situations; a temporary home when out of place for a small weekly +payment and a small added interest to their yearly savings. +The intrinsic idea of all this is excellent; but why revert to +the antiquated name of “Guild,” and why connect it +with the feast of “St. Michael?” This +veneration for saints’ days and festivals, of which the +Vicar of St. Mary’s appears enamoured, is a mere relic of +Popery, nay, very much a relic of old heathenism. It is +this bent towards the obsolete <a name="page13"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 13</span>and discarded, with the general +tendency to ornament and formality in worship, that we fear will +damage, if it does not entirely destroy the real good that might +otherwise result from the multifarious labours undertaken by Mr. +Du Boulay and his colleagues. The sooner these matters are +looked carefully at in the light of Protestant sentiment and +feeling, the better will it be for the church in the Boltons, and +all the interests circling around it.</p> +<h3>THE PRO-CATHEDRAL, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Roman Catholic Church of <i>Our +Lady of Victories</i>, commonly called the Pro-Cathedral, situate +in Newland-terrace, Kensington, is a very fine, yet simple +structure in early English style of Gothic architecture; but is +so hidden by the houses behind which it has been placed that the +real effect of the building is lost, and one can therefore only +make a guess at the probable general appearance. The +building is sufficiently lofty, however, to be easily seen from a +distance, and its high-pitched and crested roof, with miniature +angled and decorated spire, breaks up the sky line somewhat +pleasingly. Upon closer inspection the north front (the +church is built N. and S.) possesses some very excellent +detail. The centre doorway is double, recessed and +handsomely treated with polished granite shafts, and the doors +are surmounted by a seated figure of the Saviour. The +buttresses with ancient pinnacles are effective, and the general +treatment of this front, though executed in simple brick and +stone, is very bold. The architecture of the interior is +also very boldly treated, and even more than the outside is +strikingly plain—one might say white. This is +accounted for by the absence of stained glass and coloured +decorations of any kind, a defect which we understand is now +about to be remedied. There are six altars besides the high +altar. Looking up the nave towards the latter, the effect +is certainly very good, and the polished granite columns and +carved stone caps surmounted by the lofty arcade and clerestory +and simple roof together make up a very excellent interior. +The chancel is apsidal and has a groined ceiling, and is lighted +by a very plain window on each side of the apse. The aisles +are interspersed with the altars and confessionals, and the altar +to the Virgin has an elaborate reredos, over which are various +figures, the centre one being, as the Roman Catholics say, +“Our Lady.” The organ, a very fine one, is +mounted on granite columns at the north end of the nave, and is +approached by a rather awkward open and spiral staircase, and the +columns are confusing, which we do not think adds to the good +effect of the church. The font is very nice indeed and +carved in relief; on the four sides are the emblems of the +Evangelists; it has a handsome oak cover, but, like the building +itself, is lost in a corner. The benches are very plain, +and the aisles are intended to be filled with chairs. The +pulpit is enormous, and we must say unsightly; and the gas +standards, like the pulpit, strike one as being too large, and +appear to offer great obstruction to sight and sound.</p> +<p>The movement for a new Roman Catholic Church in Kensington +began about six years ago, on account of the small dimensions of +the former chapel in Upper Holland-street. The area of the +latter was 71 ft. by 21 ft., that of the new church 144 ft. by 58 +ft., making a difference of 6,861 square feet area; and the +architect, J. Goldie, Esq., has made good use of the space at his +disposal. There are 820 seats, of which 180 are free. +The pews in the centre have 470 seats; the sides are occupied by +chairs, and those on the right are free. By an extension of +the same system, the church can accommodate about 1,100 +persons. The works were commenced in 1867, and the church +opened on July 2nd, 1869. The total cost, including the +organ, is about 27,000<i>l.</i> Of this a considerable +portion remains as a debt; which circumstance will prevent a most +desirable improvement in the entry from the main road for some +time to come. At the opening Dr. Manning made it his +<i>Pro-Cathedral</i>—<i>i.e.</i>, the church which he would +use instead of a cathedral, until his own should be +finished. The enterprise has been much assisted by the Very +Rev. Mgr. Capel, the Travelling Chaplain of the Marquis of Bute, +and the present principal priest of the church. The other +clergy attached are the Rev. R. F. Clarke and the Rev. James +O’Connell.</p> +<p>Intending to visit the church on Easter Sunday morning, we +made a preliminary visit on Saturday afternoon. Although +busy preparations were going on for the great ceremonial to +follow, it was open for worship; and during our stay, from five +to half-past six <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, a considerable +number came and went for prayer and confession, sprinkling +themselves with the <i>holy water</i> from the vases both on +entering and retiring, and bowing the knee towards the high +altar. The majority of the comers were females, many of +them young; but not a few older women, and some both young and +old of the other sex. Those who intended confession +gathered near the “confession boxes,” of which there +are two. The one most in request was that on the east side, +occupied, as confessor, by the Rev. Monseigneur Capel. The +other, on the north side, was held by the Rev. Mr. +O’Connell. A number of young persons on their knees +awaited opportunity near the former and some near the +latter. The box or cell known as the Confessional is a +small wooden structure, fixed against the wall, having three +niches concealed by curtains. In the centre one sits the +confessor, his surplice being just visible where the curtains +should join over the dwarf door; and on either side a niche <a +name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>into which +the penitent enters, communicated with by the priest through a +grated aperture. The visitor gently taps at this, and the +confessor listens to hear the whispered complaint, and whispers +back his reply, his queries, his comfort or admonition. +Most that entered within the curtain were young women, apparently +of the servant class, but to this there were a few exceptions, +and in one instance a young man entered. As we tarried a +great lady came, closely followed by her footman in powdered +wig. It was the Countess of —, known in West-end +circles during the London season. She has a handsome +presence, and entered the church with a cheerful, beaming +countenance. Addressing an instruction to her servant, he +went to a small side chapel near the chancel, and soon returned +with a young dark official in a dingy cassock, who might have +been taken for an ardent Carmelite under all the depression of +protracted fasting and bodily neglect. To him the Countess +gave a note or a card, which he deposited with Mgr. Capel at the +Confessional. Shortly both priests left their boxes and +walked up the centre aisle to the side chapel, the Countess +following. In about fifteen minutes they returned, and the +lady took her departure. She was much altered in +countenance, looking sad and discomposed.</p> +<p>On Easter Sunday—the great day of all the days in the +year with the Catholics—at eleven <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, commenced the performance of High +Mass, and Archbishop Manning, as announced, was present, and +preached the sermon. The church was well attended, but not +crowded. There was no rush to obtain the +“shilling” or “six-penny” seats, and a +large number remained unlet to the end. This charge for the +seats probably kept many out; but it is understood to be a +necessary measure, in consequence of the heavy debt on the place, +the large current expenses of the services, and the general +poverty of the people. In the congregation were several +notabilities; and far up towards the chancel the white hair and +expressive features of Mr. Bellew, the well-known dramatic +reader, were visible. He was until recently a clergyman in +the Church of England, and is now a layman in the Romish Church +at this place. It was impossible to repress a reflection on +the score that the public reader in the pew and the principal +actor in the scene were both during the better half of their days +ministers in the Protestant Establishment. The first view +of the ceremony revealed a crowd of priests and mass attendants +variously arrayed and employed. One faced the altar at a +little distance, swinging a censer vessel, to the time and motion +of the pendulum of a clock. During the ceremony he appeared +several times in the same position and act. A number, +grouped round the Archbishop on his throne, having a gorgeous +canopy and draped in scarlet and amber, were very busy in +adjusting their vestments. The movements, to the +uninitiated, might seem a simple toilette operation, but were +really part and parcel of the ceremony, every one having a +symbolical allusion to the events of the commemoration. +Even the style and colour of the dresses were charmed by occult +references, not traceable to the outsider. Taking off the +Archbishop’s mitre and replacing the tall cloven covering +on his head, which occurred several times, was a great formality, +performed by a priest with the most tender and reverent care, all +the others devoutly witnessing. The rising and stepping +forth of the Archbishop, with his huge silver crook, to bow or +prostrate himself before the <i>altar</i>, and to adore the +<i>sacrifice</i>, were luminous points of interest, and brought +into view a <i>tout ensemble</i> and tinsel of ornate worship +never to be witnessed, except at High Mass in a Romish +Church. To describe all the acts of this most intricate and +complicate ceremonial would not be possible in this +article. The flitting of acolytes with candles, the +processions, the swinging of censers filled with incense, until +the altar and chancel were enveloped in a cloud; the wafting of +the perfume to the congregation till it reached the very limits +of the church; kissing the altar, and all the mysterious +movements thereat; the changes of books, the brief Latin +recitations, the tinkling of bells, the elevation of the Host, +all allied with perpetual animation, make up a whole which it is +difficult, indeed, either to describe or understand. To +witness it lays very large demands both upon the patience and +gravity of ordinary mortals, and is liable to trouble even the +conscience of a genuine Protestant.</p> +<p>The choir accompanied the performance with the grand music of +Mozart’s 7th Mass, Herr Carl Stepan singing the principal +bass with admirable effect, and the treble being well sustained +by the boys. The organist is R. Sutton Swaby, Esq., of +Gordon-cottages, Hammersmith. This instrument, built by +Messrs. Bryceson Bros., is classed among the finest of the +day. It has four manuals and a powerful pedal organ. +In all there are fifty-four stops, and the solo stops, including +the <i>voix celeste</i> and the <i>voix humaine</i>, are +considered particularly fine. Mr. Swaby is master of a very +superior instrument, and feels pleasure on Sunday evenings after +service in giving the people an opportunity of hearing its +different effects by playing a short selection of music in varied +styles. On Sunday morning the offertory was accompanied +with the <i>Hæc Dies</i>, and the Hallelujah Chorus formed +a grand voluntary at the end. During the execution of this +the Archbishop, crook in hand, the priests, and altar servants +formed and walked in procession down the centre aisle and round +the church to the side chapel, preceded by the acolytes with +candles. The prelate waved his hand as he went in token of +blessing the people, and the chief priests bore his train. +Dr. Manning appeared in the closing scene to move feebly and to +be well-nigh exhausted.</p> +<p>The sermon came in the midst of the service, a procession +escorting the Archbishop to the pulpit. On reaching it, +turning to the priests in the rear, he delivered to one his +crook, and bowing his head another took off his mitre, and, +wishing to be free from all impediments, he <a +name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>handed to +them the book-rest and book, and, advancing to the front +bareheaded and without book or paper, commenced an extempore +discourse on John xi. 25: “I am the Resurrection and the +Life.” Although somewhat aged of late, the Doctor +retains remarkable strength and clearness of voice. As to +the doctrine of the sermon, it was in the main in unison with the +requirements of the Christian pulpit, being a review of the +Saviour’s humanity in his incarnation, suffering, death, +and resurrection. This latter event was most graphically +portrayed in its various circumstances, and in the +Christian’s hopes and interests which centre in it, in that +chaste and elegant language for which the Archbishop is +noted. The course of remark offered an opportunity for +putting forward some of the distinguishing dogmas of Popery, but +the preacher did not seem to avail himself of it. Having, +however, done with the text and its doctrines, he launched into +political questions connected with the Papacy. An article +had appeared on the previous day in the <i>Times</i> treating of +their services on Good Friday; and admonishing the Catholics to +fall in with the course of “modern +civilisation.” This the Archbishop called a +“petulant, senseless, and clamorous” article; and +stigmatised “modern civilisation” as the “world +going its own course, without God, Christ, or +religion.” He inveighed keenly upon this point, +referring to the present and past condition of Paris as the +“centre of so-called modern civilisation,” and +confidently predicted that the temporal power of the Pope, which +had been so <i>wickedly</i> assailed, could never be +shaken. By that he meant not the mere possession of +“a bit of land,” but “that independence of all +earthly power and control with which the Vicar of Christ was +invested.”</p> +<p>The Roman Catholic population of Kensington is from 1,800 to +2,000, a large proportion being of the poorer classes and +principally the Irish residents. Three poor schools are +supported—a boys’ school in Upper Holland-street, +educating about 70 or 80; a girls’ and infant school in +Earl’s-court, educating about 50; of which more than half +are reported to be Protestants; the third school (girls’ +and infants’) is by Kensington-square, with about 150 +children. There are no district churches attached; but the +clergy supply the convent in Kensington-square.</p> +<p>The congregation at the <i>Pro</i>-Cathedral is said to have +greatly increased since the opening; and the collections now +reach an average of 30<i>l.</i> per Sunday.</p> +<h3>TRINITY CHURCH, BROMPTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Holy Trinity</span>, <span +class="smcap">Brompton</span>, is a church beautiful for +situation. One cannot fail to be struck by the sudden +change from town to country experienced on entering the long and +pretty avenue by which it is approached, and in the perspective +of which the vestry-door overgrown with ivy is seen. We +know of no other church in the metropolitan suburbs thus entered, +and which has all disturbing sights and sounds so effectually +shut out. The church cannot be said to be beautiful as a +Gothic structure, being of plain brick and stone, but in these +days we are so spoilt that nothing seems to satisfy us; yet we +must not forget that the church was built when Gothic +architecture was not much studied and but little appreciated, so +that, added to its woodland effect, it is only a wonder that it +is Gothic at all. Then, too, Professor Donaldson was the +architect, who is now almost the father of his profession, and as +such revered and respected by all. The church has undergone +very considerable alteration with regard to the interior. +The old high pewing has been substituted by low oak pewing of +good design. A very handsome font has been added, and three +sides of the bowl are ornamented with well-cut diaper and the +side towards the nave is occupied by a panel in relief, +containing the appropriate figure of Jesus receiving little +children. The stem is formed of stout shafts of polished +marble, and the foliated caps are freely executed. A rose +window in the east wall of the south gallery is a good feature +added a few years since. Some of the windows have been +filled with stained glass; the font and rose windows are from +designs by Mr. E. C. Hakewill. The interior effect is very +heavy, owing to the flatness of the nave ceiling and the +galleries which surround three sides of the church; but much +evidently has been done to relieve this, especially with the +exposed timbers of the aisle roofs. The plan of the church +consists of a nave and aisles and a recess for the chancel at the +east end, with a vestry. The tower is at the west end, the +space of which is occupied by the organ.</p> +<p>Holy Trinity was consecrated on June 6, 1829, being a district +church in that part of the old parish of Kensington known as +Brompton. Since then great changes have come over the +district of South Kensington, which includes, Brompton. +Those who knew it only then would scarcely recognise it +now. Wide open space has been converted into long streets +and roads, nay, a city of palaces, under the magic touch of +capitalists and builders like Mr. Freake and others. The +former gentleman still lives, and happily continues his labours +and enterprise in the neighbourhood; and, as though it were to +remind us of the fact, as we approached the church on Sunday +morning, the first thing that caught our eye was a handbill upon +the board at the entrance convening a meeting for Thursday +evening, to consider a generous offer of that gentleman to build +an infant-school at his own cost on a piece of vacant ground in +the churchyard, and present it to the district. The <a +name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>consent of +the parishioners was needed to the use of this land for such a +purpose, and of course it was readily given. As we are upon +the subject of schools, it may at once be stated that there are +connected with the church, national schools, which were +established in 1842 in the Brompton-road, a school library, and +evening classes for young men. There are, also, infant +schools, and a Sunday-school, held only in the afternoon from +2.30. The church will accommodate about 1,500 persons, and +from 300 to 400 sittings are free. In proportion as the +external appearance of that now fashionable suburb has changed, +the interior has been transformed. When the late vicar, Dr. +Irons, was appointed to it thirty years ago he found, as above +intimated, the old style of pew and the old style of +everything. There was no organ-loft or stained window, or +noticeable pulpit or chancel. But under his energetic and +active measures—at a cost of upwards of +3,000<i>l.</i>—the interior became entirely +modernised. During the greater part of his time his +ministry was popular, and the church filled; so that he had only +to ask and to have. But there was this peculiarity about +his character and relations with the district—he was in +himself, by training and connexion with Oxford, essentially +<i>High Church</i>, but experience taught him that the principal +elements composing his congregation would not admit of the +development of his sympathies with Ritualism. He was wise +enough to regard this circumstance, and aimed at establishing a +medium—a modified form of High Churchism—as a +compromise between himself and the people. As all half-done +things are sure to create misunderstanding and ultimately to +alienate some of both sides, the case of Dr. Irons was no +exception to the rule. Despite his great pulpit talent and +distinguished learning, the congregations declined; and about two +years ago he retired to a quiet country living in +Lincolnshire.</p> +<p>The present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Fraser Stooks, M.A. +(Cambridge), Prebendary of St. Paul’s, and Chaplain to the +Lord Bishop of London, has not, to the present time, succeeded in +refilling the church. On Sunday morning last it was thinly +attended, but we remembered it was a wet morning. We are, +however, informed by a constant attendant that it was quite an +average congregation. In that case the church is +considerably behind the general run of suburban churches as to +the numbers attending it. But since this statement appeared +in the <i>Suburban Press</i> it is but right to say that the +editor has received the following from the Rev. W Conybeare +Bruce: “While fully admitting that, owing to a variety of +causes, into which it is not our place to enter here, our church +is at present ‘considerably behind the general run of +suburban churches as to the numbers attending it,’ I must, +with the leave of a ‘Constant Attendant,’ distinctly +state that the congregation on that particular Sunday was +decidedly and evidently <i>below</i> the average. This is a +point on which I cannot be mistaken as it is my habit to take +special notice of the numbers of each congregation. You +may, Sir, also accept it as a fact, on which I am sure you will +congratulate us, that our congregations have increased, slowly +but perceptibly, since the present Vicar’s +accession.”</p> +<p>The Rev. Mr. Stooks has, it appears, taken his stand upon the +question of the services. He will have no intoning, +increase of singing, or excessive ritual. With High +Churchism he has no compromise; and in so far is still wiser than +his predecessor. The prayers are read and the responses +said, and the only touches of formality are on entering the +Communion, when an Introit is sung, and in the passage to the +pulpit, which is illuminated by the following of a gold-laced +church beadle, bearing a massive silver-mounted staff on his +shoulder. The clergy, too, in addition to the surplice, +wear rather a showy collegiate hood. It is in one of a +bright violet colour, and in another a rich crimson, and in a +third black silk trimmed with fur. The violet hood marks an +Associate of King’s College, the crimson is the Oxford M.A. +hood, and the black silk trimmed with white fur is the Oxford +B.A. hood. The organist, H. Lahee, Esq., did his work well, +but was unassisted by anything in the shape of an effective +choir. There are three curates—among whom the Vicar +himself did not appear on the occasion of our visit (April +16th). The Rev. Nathaniel Liberty read the prayers, the +Litany, and the Epistle very devoutly, but a little more power of +voice would have made it still more impressive. The Rev. W. +Conybeare Bruce, B.A., read the first lesson, and the Rev. John +Bliss, M.A., Senior Curate, read and preached the sermon. +The text was John xx. and 20th verse: “Then were the +disciples glad when they saw the Lord.” A beautiful +text and seasonable, and commented upon with piety and Christian +feeling.</p> +<p>At this church there are three general services on Sunday, at +11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 4 and 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and Holy Communion is celebrated every +Sunday at 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and at midday. +On week-days—morning and evening prayer daily at 8 and +5. Litany on Wednesdays and Fridays at 12. On holy +days celebration of Holy Communion and an address, at 12. +The hymn-book used is “Hymns for Public Worship,” +published under the direction of a Committee of the Religious +Tract Society. The church, since the abolition of +church-rates, is supported entirely by the pew rents, offertory, +collections, and subscriptions. The first source of income +is appropriated for the clergy exclusively; one reason, +assuredly, why the pews should be well occupied. The income +from other sources is applied for the maintenance of the church, +its services and accessories. Brompton is a fine field for +Christian labour; and situated as Holy Trinity is, in the midst +of a vast population composed of all classes, from the higher to +the lower, and at the very next door to the Roman Catholic +<i>Oratory</i> and the South Kensington Museum, it may—we +hope it will—revive to an extent which will make it a +centre of light and true religion influence to all around.</p> +<h3><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>ST. +PAUL’S, ONSLOW SQUARE.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Paul’s</span>, Onslow-square, +South Kensington, is a specimen of one of those churches built +not so much for effect as for utility. A church was wanted +in this locality at the time it was erected, and hence the idea +it gives one of having been built in a hurry. The plan of +the church is reversed, the Communion table being at the west +end; but the architecture is tame and poor. It may be said +to be a perpendicular Gothic,—certainly not an excellent +example. The tower and spire have a stunted appearance, and +would have looked better a few feet higher. The inside is +in the fashion of a past age. Roofed in one space, there is +no arcade; large galleries run round three sides of the church, +and to enable the reader and preacher to be seen from these, a +large and very tall pulpit and desk are used, which quite shut +out the west, or Communion end. There is an entire absence +of decoration, the church being almost Quakerlike in its +simplicity, and, to the searcher after the picturesque, contains +but little to interest. There is some coloured glass of +geometrical patterns, but not pleasant in tone.</p> +<p>For this church the district is largely indebted to the +Christian liberality of Charles J. Freake, Esq., of Cromwell +House, a near resident, and owner of large properties in the +locality. The site and two-thirds of the building fund, +which amounted to about 14,000<i>l.</i>, were entirely from this +source. Mr. Freake is also the patron.</p> +<p>On Sunday morning, the 23rd of April, some disappointment was +felt at this church through the absence of the esteemed Vicar, on +rather a prolonged after-Easter holiday. The Rev. Capel +Molyneux—formerly of the Lock Chapel, Paddington—is +favourably known as a very popular and attractive preacher. +He is, also, distinctly Evangelical in his ministry, and +anti-Ritualistic in all his services, which are conducted in the +plainest style of outward devotion. Yet, out of one of the +most aristocratic centres to be met with around London, he has +succeeded in building up a very large congregation, upon whom he +appears to have impressed that form as the very ideal of +Christian worship. And we cannot refrain from saying that, +as far as we could judge, a more lively and earnestly devout +congregation is rarely to be met with. The church, which +accommodates in all 1,600 persons—inclusive of 600 free +sittings—was well filled, to our eye, except in the +galleries; but we were informed the congregation was by no means +equal to what it is when the Vicar himself is present. His +place, however, was very ably and profitably supplied by the Rev. +J. F. Sargeant, of St. Luke’s, Marylebone, who performed +the entire service, and discoursed extempore with much pathos and +power on the 23rd Psalm. There is no intoning in the +prayers, and no chanting or singing but in the <i>Jubilate</i>, +the <i>Te Deum</i>, the <i>Gloria Patri</i>, and the hymns; the +latter being Psalms and Hymns based on “The Christian +Psalmody” of the late Rev. G. Bickersteth, as compiled by +his son, and sold by Dean and Son, Ludgate-hill—one of the +very best of all the collections extant. The organist, Mr. +Carter, uses an instrument by Bishop to good effect, and is +accompanied in the vocal parts of the music by a rather numerous +and full-voiced choir in, of course, plain dress. There is +one assistant clergyman—the Rev. T. Burrows—who was +not present on the occasion. On Sundays there are three +services—at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 3.30, and 7 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span>; Holy Communion on the first +Sunday in the month after the morning, and on the third after the +evening, service, and on the last Tuesday evening in the +month. There is a usual week-day service on Thursday +evening at seven, and on the first Monday evening in the month, +at eight, there is a special service for working men, when all +the seats are thrown open. This, we understand, is a most +interesting and important service, and usually well attended.</p> +<p>Although St. Paul’s was opened by Bishop Blomfield on +Christmas Eve, in the year of our Lord 1860, there are no day or +Sunday-schools identified with it,—a fact in part resulting +from the almost total absence of poor people in the +district. The circumstance is remarkable; but may find some +explanation also in the general character of Mr. Molyneux’s +congregation, and in the direction of its zeal and resources to +other Christian objects. We do not know whether, in London +or out, any church can be found so distinguished for Christian +benevolence, in all its social branches, as St. Paul’s, +Onslow square. We have been familiar with many grand doings +of Christian people, but we have not in our recollection any +congregation which, as a whole, must feel it “more blessed +to give than to receive” than this one. It is no +small pleasure to us to record it as a matter of local Church +history. Sometimes it has been said that Church people do +not understand the art of giving. If there were any truth +in this as a rule, we may point to St. Paul’s as a noble +exception. The clergy and the church are maintained solely +out of the pew-rents, and the offertory taken at the doors is for +other purposes; and the latter, commonly thought not the most +effective mode of making collections, yields an average of nearly +100<i>l.</i> per Sunday. The offertory at the Communion is +in full proportion. In addition to this, the congregation +supports a “Church Home for Destitute Girls,” for +which about 500<i>l.</i> a-year is contributed at sermons +preached by the Vicar, and in donations and subscriptions. +An annual effort for the Church Missionary Society results in +little short of 300<i>l.</i> The Irish Church Mission and +Church Pastoral Aid Society are yearly united together in an +appeal, and the response to the last was taken at the doors, in +the morning, 53<i>l.</i> 10s. 9d.; and in the evening, +23<i>l.</i> 4s. 10d. The London City Mission, we hope, +recognizes in St. Paul’s one of its strongest +supports. The collection after sermon for this object <a +name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>amounted on +the last occasion to 108<i>l.</i> 18s. 4d., and the regular +subscriptions swelled the amount to over 450<i>l.</i> The +“Jews’ Society” has also an annual +benefit. The “Consumption Hospital,” which is +situated within the parish bounds, has its funds replenished +every year to a very important and gratifying extent. At +the last preaching of sermons on its behalf, there was taken at +the doors in the morning 70<i>l.</i> 10s., and in the evening +92<i>l.</i> 9s. 7d.—162<i>l.</i> 19s. 7d. All this is +done in a general way; but there are special occasions on which +the distinguished charity of this Church has shone forth with +even greater lustre. We all remember what national sympathy +was evoked by the Lancashire Famine in 1862. The Rev. Capel +Molyneux made a collection for thirteen weeks in succession for +this object. On the first day—November 9, +1862—there was taken at the doors in the morning +780<i>l.</i>, and in the evening 299<i>l.</i> 9s. 9d., making for +the day 1,079<i>l.</i> 9s. 9d. In the twelve following +weeks the gross amount collected in the same way was +1,363<i>l.</i> 5s., making a grand total for that patriotic +object of 2,442<i>l.</i> 14s. 9d., which was duly remitted to the +Lord Mayor’s Committee. So recently as the 26th of +February last, a collection was taken up in relief of the Paris +distress which reached the figure of 229<i>l.</i> 16s. 8d. +In the midst of all this we have further to record that for the +past five years this congregation and people have contributed +600<i>l.</i> a-year towards poor and distressed churches in the +east of London. We repeat, we do not know where, with an +average congregation of 1,500, or where with any congregation, +such figures as these can be paralleled. We confess to a +profound admiration of such results. The persons who have +contributed to them are known to Omniscience; it is not necessary +that they should be known to the world. Although our +architectural correspondent, from a professional point of view, +does not appear to think highly of the church, as a material +structure, it forms, to our eye, a very pleasing feature in +Onslow-square. Even outwardly, it breaks up the monotony of +palatial secular dwellings very agreeably; but religiously, +morally, and socially, it is a bright and beautiful spot, which +we trust will shine and flourish more and more unto the perfect +day.</p> +<h3>ST. PETER’S, ONSLOW GARDENS.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Church of St. Peter, situate in +Onslow-gardens, South Kensington, is a much more important +church, on close examination, than a distant view leads the +observer to believe. There are not many good points from +which the church is seen, and the view from the north is cut up +by the vicarage recently erected, which we suppose is to form +part of a terrace, but which does not improve the general +appearance. The west front, by no means a fine composition, +possesses some good details, and the tower and spire, which form +a portion of this elevation, do much to assist in lending a +picturesque effect. The spire is of very good design, but +the tower is too stunted, and, like St. Paul’s, would be +improved by an additional ten feet in height. The spire +wears the appearance of having been placed on too soon. +Entering the church by the west door, the perspective view is +very effective and telling; this is mainly attributable to the +arcades, which, though of very simple Early English character, +are very well-proportioned; and the pointed triplet arcades at +the transept form a pleasing variety from the usual monotony of +ordinary church nave arrangements. The transverse arch at +the transepts rather takes from the perspective, and might with +advantage have been less depressed. A very peculiarly +corbelled chancel arch—in shape like a bishop’s +mitre—is, we should think, unique. The arch, as +originally built, was too contracted; the chancel pieces have +been cut away, and large corbels introduced, suggesting the shape +before referred to. Indeed, if it had been possible to open +the apsidal chancel a little more, it would have been an +improvement. The good general appearance of the eastern +windows, with their excellent stained glass, by Messrs. Ward and +Hughes, of Frith-street, Soho, is still very much obscured and +lost. The nave roof is light and well-designed, but not +quite agreeable, being somewhat too late in character. The +details of the windows and clerestory are all very simply +designed, to accord with the style of the church; the stalls, +prayer-desk, and lectern, being somewhat in advance of the +chancel arch, are enclosed by a dwarf-stone screen, which +separates them from the body of the church. The font is +very plain indeed—indicative of the simplicity of baptism, +we suppose—possessing no ornamentation on the octagonal +bowl save the monogram well cut in relief. But it is in +contemplation further to embellish it. The stone pulpit is +octagonal also, and has well-carved figures in relief of the four +Evangelists. The floor of the church is well covered with +some rather pretty benches, which, together with transept +galleries, will contain a congregation of about 1,500. The +vestry is on the north-east angle of the church, and the organ, +quietly decorated, is placed in the south chancel aisle. +This instrument, which is a very superior one, was built by +Messrs. Hill and Sons, at a cost of 800<i>l.</i> It has +three rows of keys and 29 stops.</p> +<p>St. Peter’s was consecrated on St. Peter’s Day, +June 29, 1867, by the Bishop of London, Dr. Tait, now Archbishop +of Canterbury. It was build and presented to the district +by Chas. J. Freake, Esq., of Cromwell House, who is its patron, +and the pulpit was the special gift of Mrs. Freake. The <a +name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>parsonage is +also built on ground given by Mr. Freake. The district is +composed of the area between the Fulham and the Brompton-roads, +including Elm-place, and in about the centre of which the church +stands, being at present only very sparsely populated. This +church, like many others in the suburbs, was built in +anticipation of future population, and meanwhile draws its +congregation mainly from beyond. It is, however, a large +one, there being present at the ordinary Sunday morning service +over a thousand persons; but, almost without exception, of the +upper class. Strictly speaking, there is not a poor person +to be seen in it. There are few free sittings to mention; +and such as go by that name at the remote end from the chancel +appear ready to let as occasion may offer. Not that all the +other sittings are taken; for although the body of the church +appears tolerably full, there are not 700 sittings really +let—scarcely one-half the number provided. We cannot, +therefore, understand why the verger guards all that part of the +church so jealously, and when a stranger asks for a seat higher +up tells him with some peremptoriness that he cannot go. +If, however, the Vicar has no poor people within his church +walls, the Rev. Gerald Blunt, Vicar of Chelsea, has lately made +him a present of 2,300, who border on his district, to care +for. This sacred trust the rev. gentleman is setting +himself to fulfil with zeal and diligence.</p> +<p>We must confess to some surprise, considering the evident +social character of the congregation, that the collections and +offertory yield comparatively so little. There are boxes at +the doors for offerings towards church expenses, and the highest +sum received from this source in one day, in 1870, was 4<i>l.</i> +19s. 5d., and that was on Easter-day. But, taking the year +through, it does not average one pound per week. There is +something in this more than ordinarily sad, for the people that +go in and out at those doors count their income not by hundreds, +but by thousands. The offertory is a more direct appeal, +but it only yielded in the year 184<i>l.</i> 16s. 9s. +Altogether, including subscriptions (less commission for +collecting them), there was only 357<i>l.</i> 16s. 6d. raised for +church expenses. For the poor of the district, by +offertories and private donations, there was raised 144<i>l.</i> +1s. 6d. This sum was disbursed in various outlays for the +relief and comfort of the needy poor. But how small the +amount compared with the ability to do! There is a +day-school in Arthur street, connected with the church, for the +support of which from all sources, private subscriptions, +collection after sermon, &c., there was raised 305<i>l.</i> +19s. 11½d. Collections in church for other than +local purposes amounted to 121<i>l.</i> 6s., including +60<i>l.</i> 13s. for the Bishop of London’s Fund, and for +the Chelsea Dispensary and Victoria Hospital for sick children +60<i>l.</i> 13s. The whole, therefore, of the visible +liberality of this wealthy congregation is at present summed up +in the figures 985<i>l.</i> 1s. 2½d. per annum. We +trust that an era of larger heartedness will speedily dawn. +Congregations, as well as individuals, require to learn the art +and luxury of giving. It should not be passed without +notice that Mrs. Byng, assisted by a few young ladies of the +congregation, has established a Sunday-school and mothers’ +meetings, which are in good working, although as yet in their +infancy. There are also an evening sewing class, +night-school and a clothing club, superintended and directed by +Mrs. Byng.</p> +<p>The Hon. and Rev. Francis E. C. Byng, M.A. (Oxford), was +formerly of Twickenham, from whence he was introduced to the new +church of St. Peter’s by its patron, Mr. Freake. He +is a minister unquestionably Evangelical in doctrine, and the +ceremonial he has established in his church is a <i>medium</i> +one, being at equal distance from excessive plainness on the one +hand, and High Church Ritual on the other. The service is +earnest and lively without over much singing; but what there is +of the latter is excellently done by a choir in surplices, under +the able direction of Mr. Arthur Sullivan, the organist; who, as +a composer and conductor in other than church music, has just +earned himself no small praise at the opening concert of the +International Exhibition. Mr. Sullivan has conducted the +musical part of the service from the first and it is owing to his +zeal and talent that it has attained such efficiency. The +prayers and lessons were well read in a clear voice by the Rev. +C. Scholefield, M.A. (Cambridge), curate, the Litany being taken +by the Vicar. Both as reader and preacher, the Hon. and +Rev. Mr. Byng, gifted with a good voice and having a suitably +animated manner, fixes and retains the attention of his +audience. His sermon on April 30 was from Deut xxxiii., +25th verse, “And as thy days so shall thy strength +be.” It was the effusion of a devout mind, +intelligently comprehending the trials and experiences of our +common life, and fully aware of the sole secret of human hope and +consolation. Though read there was nothing perfunctory in +the delivery, the preacher being sufficiently free from his +manuscript to put himself on a line with the eye, and we cannot +but think with the heart of all his hearers in every part of the +church; occasionally even turning to look into the galleries and +into the chancel, that the occupants of those parts may not think +themselves forgotten. If all preachers used their MSS. in +the manner of Mr. Byng, and always made them speak such excellent +things, much of the current objection to their use in public +would vanish. In taking leave for the present of St. +Peter’s, we cannot but congratulate the people there on +their beautiful church, and the religious advantages they +enjoy.</p> +<h3><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>ST. +LUKE’S CHURCH, SOUTH KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">As</span> another interesting example of +how churches spring up in our midst, following or hastening +before the population, we have now to notice another new +enterprise in South Kensington. St. Luke’s is at +present a temporary iron church, put up to await the erection of +a more enduring one, on what is known as the Redcliffe Estate, in +South Kensington, now being covered with dwellings of a superior +order, by Messrs. Corbett and M‘Clymont. These +gentlemen have presented the site for the new church, which is a +most eligible one, situate in the yet uncompleted +Redcliffe-square. Plans for the new-church are in +preparation by Messrs. G. and D. Godwin, of the Fulham-road, and +it is intended to be built in the course of 1872. By the +time it is erected, it will show itself to be in one of the +best-selected positions to be met with around London. The +structure will be in the early decorated style, and is to cost +about 10,000<i>l.</i>, and it is a circumstance to place the +promoters beyond the reach of much anxiety on the subject, that +7,000<i>l.</i> of the amount is already deposited. +Meanwhile the iron church on the other side of the way is doing +good service. It was put up in July last, and opened on the +23rd of that month, just six months ago, by the Rev. Wm. Fraser +Handcock, M.A. (of Oxford) the vicar (designate), and previously +vicar of St. Luke’s, Cheltenham. To this latter +church South Kensington has recently given a new minister, in the +person of the Rev. J. A. Aston, late vicar of St. +Stephen’s, and has received in return the Rev. W. F. +Handcock, but to open entirely new ground. Mr. Handcock not +only came from Cheltenham, but he brought the material of the +church in which he now preaches with him from thence. It +was a wooden structure, and consequently before he could commence +work in it, occasion was given for some correspondence and +trouble with the Metropolitan Board of Works. He +unwittingly incurred the Board’s disapproval by violating +one of its bye-laws, and they compelled him to case it in iron of +certain dimensions before it was opened. This caused a +further outlay of 400<i>l.</i>, which was a matter of some +consequence to the rev. gentleman, as he had personally +undertaken the whole responsibility of the temporary +church. The district assigned to St. Luke’s is taken +out of that of St. Mary’s in the Boltons, and includes at +present about 3,000 population; but may have double that number +four or five years hence. The present building has sittings +for 700, and between 100 and 200 are free; the remainder let in +the nave at 2<i>l.</i> per annum and in aisles at +1<i>l.</i> Considering the time it has been opened, the +church is very well attended. At the morning service we +found about 300 present, a full choir of youths in surplices; who +rendered the chants, psalms, and hymns in a creditable manner to +Anglican strains. The organ—well played by Mr. Henry +P. Keens—is small; but, like the church itself, +temporary. The prayers were read, and the whole tone of the +service was Evangelical. Hymns in use, “Ancient and +Modern.” There is a weekly offertory for the church +expenses, which is taken before the sermon.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p20b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"St. Luke’s Church, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington" +title= +"St. Luke’s Church, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington" +src="images/p20s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The Rev. W. Fraser Handcock is a minister apparently about +forty years of age. He begins his service in rather a low +tone of voice, but immediately rises to the compass of the +auditorium, and thoroughly maintains it to the end. The +emphasis in his reading is placed with almost faultless accuracy; +so that the true sense is never lost to the hearer. The +sermon was read, but delivered with very considerable +effect. In matter it was most intelligent, instructive, and +Evangelical. Discoursing from John xviii. 38: “Pilate +saith unto him, what is truth?” the preacher considered +Pilate as the representative sceptic of his age; and drew a +striking parallel between him and modern sceptics, in their +affected uncertainty and unbelieving inquiries, as to how the +truth was to be determined; and, like Pilate, they found vain +excuses for their infidelity in the divided state of +Christendom. In France religion was suffering through the +recoil from that “sham” of Christianity set up there +by Popery; and in England, silently but too certainly, the evil +leaven had been at work; in the Universities, in schools, and in +literature. When a convert from Rome, as had often +happened, first landed on our shores, it was not to be wondered +at if, on a superficial survey of the Church as it was, he +inquired, doubting, “What is truth?” When he +glanced at the various tenets taught within even their own +Church, could any other result be expected! We heard, for +instance, from some that a species of magical spiritual power was +vested in the ministers of religion, so that the sprinkling of a +little water in baptism, or the uttering of a few words over the +elements used in celebrating the Lord’s Supper, produced +necessarily divine effects—teaching against which our finer +sense revolted. He went to another extreme, and found +others objecting to everything in the world not purely spiritual; +even to all kinds of music not sacred in its character and +use. Then, perhaps, he took up a book written by some +plausible, philosophising author, the fallacies of which he was +not able to detect; and it was easy enough for him in all these +phases of our intellectual and religious life to find an excuse, +and inquire, “What, then, is truth?” But after +all, it was out a mere excuse, a vain pretence; for there were +the great cardinal truths of Revelation plain enough to be +understood: about God, about eternity, the soul, and God’s +way of winning it. But men rejected or quibbled about these +Bible truths and things raised upon them, because, in fact, +Christianity was not merely a <i>creed</i>, but it was a +life—a life that men must live both inwardly and +outwardly. And this was the grand reason why men evaded it: +the Master said, if any man would <i>do</i> God’s will, +they should know of the doctrine that it was of him. But it +was because they were not inclined humbly to <i>do</i> it, that +men remained in such ignorance and <a name="page21"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 21</span>confusion about it. This +witness is faithful and true, for there can be no doubt that the +chief difficulties in the way of the reception of the religion of +the Bible are to be sought in the moral rather than the +intellectual condition of men. This was the great point +clearly and forcibly brought out by the preacher, and if this is +an average sermon in purport and aim, we cannot but congratulate +the neighbourhood on the advent of Mr. Handcock, and on the +building of the new church. As yet, as a matter of course, +the usual church adjuncts are only in contemplation. A +Sunday-school, however, will be opened immediately, and before +the permanent edifice is consecrated, all the usual parochial +machinery will be at work. The assistant minister is the +Rev. E. J. Haddock, B.A., Dublin. The churchwardens are +Capt. A. Waldy, of 9, Stanhope-gardens, and Dr. Daniell, of +Cathcart road, South Kensington.</p> +<h3>CLARENCE-PLACE WESLEYAN CHAPEL, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">There</span> is a very old lady still +living in Young-street, Kensington, whose recollections of early +Methodism in that town are still with her, and who is fond of the +opportunity of quietly recounting them. Among her remotest +remembrances is a visit of Mr. Wesley, the incidents of whose +advent were the talk of the neighbourhood when she first began to +notice anything she heard. She tells how the great +evangelist preached in a smithy, somewhere in the vicinity of the +present Jenning’s-buildings, “amidst great +opposition.” <a name="citation21"></a><a href="#footnote21" +class="citation">[21]</a> Subsequently preaching services +were held in a house—which has long since been taken +down—but which stood upon the site 17, Young-street. +This was the property of her husband’s father—who was +one of the earliest Methodists in Kensington—and who +suffered much persecution. It was, it appears, the object +of his opponents to make him stop the Methodist service +altogether; but his devotion to the cause enabled him to brave +the taunts and injury to which he was subjected; and to afford +larger accommodation he built up a temporary chapel in his own +yard, which answered for the service of the Methodists many +years. Methodism, however, has never flourished in the +Court suburb to the extent to which the self-sacrifice and +devotion of its few first members might have seemed to +promise. To the first temporary building succeeded another; +then followed the present chapel in Clarence-place in the year +1838. A ninety-nine years’ lease of the land was +obtained at a ground-rent of 10<i>l.</i> per annum in 1836, and +the foundation-stone was laid by the late Mr. Farmer, of +Gunnersbury House, in 1836, and in June, 1838, the Rev. Dr. +Bunting and the Rev. Dr. Beaumont conducted the opening services, +when the collections amounted to 42<i>l.</i> 5s. 2d., the whole +cost being 600<i>l.</i> It is a very plain edifice, almost +completely hidden from view by the surrounding dwellings, and +having no architectural expression. It has no gallery, and +will accommodate on the ground-floor 200 persons, the +congregation as a rule reaching to about half the number. +About twenty sittings only are held as free, although many more +must generally be so used. There are between fifty and +sixty Church members meeting in class. Prior to 1861, when +the Bayswater Wesleyan <i>Circuit</i> was formed, this chapel was +ministerially supplied from Hammersmith circuit, and from the +Theological Institution, Richmond. But since that date the +services have been attended by the regular ministry of the +Bayswater station, to which the chapel was at that period +attached. The form of service is that belonging to the +Wesleyan Body, which consists of 1, a hymn; 2, a prayer; 3, a +lesson; 4, a hymn; 5, sermon; closing with another hymn and +benediction. The hymns of the Wesleys are those mainly +used; although there are bound up with them some select +productions from other well-known hymn-writers, the whole +forming, without any controversy, by a long way the best +collection of hymns that Christendom has yet produced. Its +excellence is attested by the fact that into whatever church or +chapel we enter, the collections there in use, under all sorts of +titles and editorships, are much indebted to its pages. In +the present instance the singing is aided by a harmonium, which +might very well give place to the more suitable +instrument—the organ. Behind the chapel there is a +very capital schoolroom, where about sixty children are taught on +the Sabbath; and adjoining this a large vestry, both built in +1857, and forming a good reserve for meetings of all kinds +connected with the church and congregation. In the Wesleyan +circle in Kensington the following names appear to be much +revered and honoured as having contributed at successive stages +of the work, time, talent and money towards its building up, +names for the most part well known in the town—Messrs. +Rowland, Tomlinson, Maunder, Pocock, Bridgnell, Jarvis, Eyles, +Bond, Gush, Rigg, Haine, Trownsan, Farmer, &c. The +building of the larger and more beautiful Wesleyan chapel in +Warwick-gardens has, however, tended to weaken the society at +Clarence-place, by drawing away some of its principal members and +supporters, and a small portion of its general congregation.</p> +<h3><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 22</span>THE +CHURCH OF ST. AUGUSTINE, SOUTH KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Augustine’s Church</span>, close +to Hereford-Square, South Kensington, is a temporary iron +erection, and, like most such buildings, possesses no +architectural features or details worthy of notice. The +Incumbent, the Rev. R. R. Chope, B.A., five or six years ago +conceived a necessity for a church in that place, and, means +failing him to obtain a substantial structure, or to procure a +separate site, he made use of a corner of his own private garden, +put up the iron building, and called it the “Church of St. +Augustine.” It is a low, dull, dingy-looking object +outside, and as a stranger approaches it—with its roof only +just visible above the garden-wall, it is in danger of being +passed without notice, except one should suppose it a rather +large conservatory or garden shed. It must have required +some courage in a minister to attempt a church for himself in +such a position; and we are not surprised after this that Mr. +Chope is now going on to a larger and more promising +enterprise. In the Queen’s-gate, a new and permanent +church is rising, under the same energy which originated the +first.</p> +<p>The present “St. Augustine’s,” in the +interior, is a long narrow space fitted with very plain benches, +all being free to all-comers, and capable of containing 700 or +800 persons. They were well filled on Sunday morning, the +7th of May, with a congregation remarkable for its preponderance +in the female element. One whole side of the church is +reserved entirely for females, and no intrusion of the other sex +is allowed. On the other side both sexes are compelled to +mingle, and even there two-thirds are of the feminine +gender. To say that the service here is High Church is not +saying all the truth; it is Ritualistic, and highly so, in its +whole spirit and ceremonial. It is, in fact, the nearest +approach to Romanism that we have yet witnessed in an Anglican +Church in the course of these visitations, if indeed it be not +very Popery itself under the thinnest guise of the Protestant +name. The communion-table is called an <i>altar</i>, and +regarded as such in fact, and decorated accordingly. It is +covered with a white cloth embroidered with yellow and red +flowers and fringe. It has a large gilt cross upon it, two +huge gilt candlesticks, and several vases of flowers. +Branching candelabra also on its right and left. The +ministers are called <i>priests</i>, and look very priestly in +their garments, with short surplice and long cassock, and stole +of yellowish silk with rich embroidery and fringe. In the +absence of the Incumbent, the Curate, the Rev. A. J. Foster +officiated.</p> +<p>Prior to the beginning of the service, an official in long +cassock with tassels was busy in arranging the chancel furniture, +and adjusting a silk embroidered covering upon the altar over the +elements to be used in the celebration of the Eucharist. +This work he performed with the minutest punctilio, moving +backward and forward and on one side to see its effect, and never +failing to bow on passing the Cross, and on leaving off moving +backward and bowing.</p> +<p>On entering church, the people, before taking their seats, bow +one knee in the aisle towards the altar, and some cross +themselves precisely in the manner of Roman Catholics. The +time of service arrived, the organist takes his seat, having on a +surplice and purple hood with white fur trimming, and, sending +out a few solemn strains, the choir is heard in the vestry at the +remote end of the church singing “Amen.” It +sounds like a distant echo among the mountains. Immediately +the people rise, and choristers and clergy walk in procession +through the centre aisle to the chancel.</p> +<p>Except the lessons, which were read in a serious and rational +manner by a stranger, an aged clergyman, who did not seem quite +at home in his priestly apparel, and appeared, amidst all the +circumstances, somewhat to dislike himself, the whole service was +intoned and sung. The music was Gregorian, and performed in +its most sombre mood. The congregation appeared perfectly +trained to bowings and genuflexions. At every mention of +the Saviour’s name they bent lowly, and during the whole of +the first part of the <i>Gloria Patri</i>. In one of the +hymns, the sacred name occurred in every verse, and in some +verses almost every line, and there was a constant bending and +rising. It appeared merely a mechanical process, and quite +inconsistent with that mental gravity which is essential to true +devotion. Amidst all this mechanism of outward worship, we +regret to say there was small visible evidence of spiritual +concern. It was the coldest piece of formalism it has been +our lot to witness in an English church.</p> +<p>In intoning the Litany, the clergyman came out of his desk, +crossed himself, and knelt with both knees on the lowest step of +the chancel in front of the altar, with his back to the +people. This motion is quite advanced in Ritualistic +practice; and, taken together with the peculiar strain of the +intoner’s voice, and its rising at the end of every verse +of that sublime and all-comprehending prayer, gave the service +the stamp of parody rather than of sincere and enlightened +Christian devotion. We can only express ourselves in this +form, for nothing else will indicate our real sense and +conscience of this mode of religious service. The +puerilities of Romanism Englishmen we thought had learnt to +despise, and yet here are some untalented young gentlemen in the +Church of England whose habits would deprave our Protestant +religious instincts and lead the young and weaker intellects of +our race back into the thraldom of Popish superstition. +After the Litany there was a hymn, and then followed the sermon, +differing in this respect from the usual church order, which +places the sermon after the Creed in the Communion Service. +After ascending the pulpit and crossing himself, pronouncing +“To God the Father, the <a name="page23"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 23</span>Son and the Holy Ghost,” whilst +standing erect, the text was taken from John xvi. 7, +“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for +you that I go away,” &c. As in most cases where +excessive attention is lavished on the mere ceremonial, the +sermon failed to fulfil the most modest ideal of pulpit +work. There appeared to be no intention or effort to give +it effect either as an exposition or application of +Scripture. In this case, too, it was evident the preacher +could not shake off the intoning habit of voice, but carried it +in great measure with him from the desk to the pulpit. The +principal point of doctrine in the sermon was on the important +subject of God <i>dwelling</i> in believers, and was stated in +this way: “As St. Paul said we were the temples of God by +the Holy Ghost dwelling in us; so God the Son dwelt in us by +<i>means of his holy sacraments</i>”. +“For,” it was further explained, “by the holy +sacraments he gives us spiritual life; for, except we eat the +flesh of the Son of God and drink his blood, we have no part in +him,”—a strange confusion of ideas between the +outward and visible, and inward and spiritual. Baptismal +regeneration, sacramental efficacy, were clearly articles in the +preacher’s creed. We always thought the teaching of +Scripture to be that both God the Father and God the Son dwelt in +the true believer by one and the same inhabitation of the Holy +Ghost. In connection with this sublime principle of +spiritual life, there is no place in the Bible where such words +as “by means of the holy sacraments” are to be +found. Feeble preaching can diffuse error if it cannot do +justice to the truth. After the sermon, during the singing +of the hymn, the offertory is taken every Sunday, by which the +church is wholly supported, and the minister passes to the +Communion Service. The collectors bow towards the altar on +presenting the offertory bags in the chancel, or on leaving; and +in preparing for the celebration the <i>priest</i>—with his +back to the people—is long engaged, and on one occasion +kneels and rises quickly twice or thrice in succession before the +consecrated bread. The Rev. R. R. Chope has studied to make +his service as ornamental, high, and formalistic as can be under +the Anglican name. He says he believes that “the +meanness and costliness of worship reflects the spirit of the +worshippers,” a fundamental error if it be attempted to +apply it as a general rule. We take it that there is a +medium to be observed, and in all cases the <i>costliness</i> +must be regulated by circumstances.</p> +<p>Every Sunday at 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> there is +Communion, Prayer (choral), with sermon, at 11; second +celebration at 12 30. Evening prayer (choral) and sermon at +7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Thursday, at 8. <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, Communion. 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, morning prayer.</p> +<p>Saints’ days: Two celebrations and daily prayer, at 8 +<span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 5 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span></p> +<p>There are several small charities, a day-school, and +Sunday-school, both in their infancy.</p> +<h3>THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ORATORY, BROMPTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Roman Catholic Oratory stands +within an enclosure of high brick walls and gates, above which +its plain brick, warehouse-looking south gable is visible, and if +it were not that the said gable is surmounted by a plain Latin +cross, there is nothing to indicate an ecclesiastical +structure. The interior (in effect reminding one of a large +music-hall) is Italian in its style of the simplest kind, painted +and gilded. The nave or body of the church is very long, +roofed in one span, and covered with a plain panelled +ceiling. The northern end is occupied by the high altar, +richly decorated with artificial flowers and burdened with +candles. The altar stands considerably elevated and +enclosed by dwarf balustrades, and flanked by rather ornate +benches or sedilia. The nave floor is entirely occupied by +mean wooden benches, intersected by a centre and two side +passages, the latter giving entrance and exit also to numerous +recesses or bays, which serve as chapels, in which are erected +altars to saints; and also to a number of confessionals, by which +last we infer that the practice of confession is carried on to a +great extent by Oratorians. As to the saints, those +represented at the Oratory have their altars all duly supplied +with pictures, candles, and flowers, and have their particular +admirers and devotees. A large platform kind of pulpit is +on the west side, in which the preacher is accommodated with a +chair. The font is very plain, close to the main entrance +doors in the bay called the Baptistry.</p> +<p>The “Oratory of St. Philip Neri,” situate next to +the South Kensington Museum on the one side and Holy Trinity +Church, Brompton, on the other, was dedicated to the +“Immaculate Heart of Mary” in the year 1854. It +had previously been established in King William-street, +Charing-cross, since 1849, in the building now known as the +Charing-cross Theatre. But the more eligible site in +Brompton offering, it was embraced; and this centre of Roman +Catholic propgandism in West London was transferred from amidst +the shops, warehouses, and <i>cafés</i> of the Strand, to +a scene of retirement, wealth, and fashion. The interior of +this church is laid out in the most elaborate style of Roman +Catholic art. On entering, the high altar in the +distance—north—strikes the eye irresistibly. It +has upon it a high cross and six tall candlesticks with candles +lit. There are also other candles and suspended burning +lamps through the entire vista. The æsthetic effect +of the first glance is not soon forgotten. The details are +not less effective, considered as mere imagery addressing the +outward sense. Including the Baptistry, there are eight +side chapels, or altar-recesses, four on each side, all richly +and artistically furnished. On the left, <a +name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>or what is +termed the “Gospel side,” the first is the +“Chapel of the Sacred Heart;” second, the Chapel of +St. Eutropius; then that of St. Joseph, and that of St. +Philip. On the right, the first recess is the Baptistry; +second, “Calvary Chapel,” where there are life-size +figures of the crucified Saviour with the malefactors, and the +mother of Jesus and his brother sitting at the foot of the cross; +third, the Chapel of “Our Lady of Dolours” (sorrows); +and forth, the Chapel of “Our Lady.” The altar +here, with a large image of the Virgin and her infant Son upon +it, is now profusely decorated with flowers. It is the +month of May; and the following notice is attached to the doors +of the church: “Offerings of flowers and candles will be +thankfully received for the month of Mary.” The +former part of the appeal appears to have been already liberally +responded to. The bouquets are piled up to the very feet of +the image, and decorating her brow in all their radiant +freshness. The whole reminds one of a certain wax-figure +display in Baker-street: only in this instance the kneeling +worshippers around the rails of the chancels suggest that +something more is involved. We saw many of them, especially +in front of “<i>Our Lady’s Altar</i>.” +But they were distributed all through in smaller numbers or in +ones. The “Calvary Chapel” is intended as a +most literal rendering of the crucifixion. It is a shocking +scene to look upon—those carved images of bleeding and +mangled forms. To any one who has really in imagination +conceived something of what the actual crucifixion was, and dwelt +upon its moral import, it is likely to seem an impious +mockery. But some appeared to approach it with reverence; +and a little girl, who had been kneeling by her mother’s +side, crossed over the rail, crept up to and kissed the wooden +cross on which the central image hung! These scenes are to +be witnessed after every public service, matins or vespers, or +whenever the church is open, which in fact is at all times when +people can attend either by rule or chance.</p> +<p>The usual services at the Oratory are numerous and +continuous. On Sunday there is Mass at 6.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, at 7, 8, 9, and 10; and at 11 High +Mass and sermon; at half past 2 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> “Exposition of the +Sacraments,” and “Vespers” at half-past 3; +occasional courses of lectures at 4 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and service with sermon and the +benediction at 7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> At this +latter the meetings of the confraternities of “The Precious +Blood” and of “St. Patrick” are held, and the +“Intentions of members <i>given out</i>.” This +means that each member confesses to some dominant desire or +purpose then in his mind. It may be for the comfort of a +sick friend, the repose of a dead one, the conversion of sinners +or heretics, or any other matter that may engage his thoughts at +the moment. There is also the “Little Oratory,” +where there is a separate service for “Meditation and +Mass,” for brothers only, at 7.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 4.15 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> On week-days there is Mass at +6.30, 7, 7.30, 8, 8.30, 9, 10. Sermon every evening at 8, +except Saturday; and on Thursday and Saturday a benediction at +4.30. On holy days, High Mass, with sermon, at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and vespers at 4.40 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> The work of the confessionals +appears to be interspersed at all times between these numerous +services. The wonder is how such a machinery can be kept +always going, how it does not wear out in interest and effect +from sheer continuity of motion. We must assume that it has +its flagging moments, and sleepy rests, by which its motive +energies are recruited, and that at certain seasons and services +the priests have it pretty much to themselves.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The Fathers</span>.—At the present +time there are fourteen attached to the Oratory, the majority, we +are informed, having been previously clergymen in the Church of +England. Their names are as follows: The Very Rev. W. T. +Gordon (superior); the Rev. John B. Dalgairns, the Rev. Richard +M. Stanton, Thomas F. Knox, John G. Bowden, Edward G. Bagshaw, +James B. Rowe, Felix Philpin, Edward S. Keogh, W. B. Morris, +Chas. H. Bowden, Kenelm Digby Beste, Thomas Graves Law (nephew of +the Earl of Ellenborough), James Arthur V. Maude, Francis A. O. +Carroll, Henry G. S. Bowden. There is a large library +belonging to the Fathers in common, which occupies an entire +quadrangle, about one-third the length of the church itself +westward, where the clergy spend such spare moments as they can +snatch from their other engagements. Little is known of +these gentlemen by the outside world. They act their parts +from day to day within the sombre enclosure of their high brick +walls, and continue to be content to move in their appointed +spheres amidst the gaudy but wearisome formalism within. On +Sunday morning, May 14, it was High Mass at the eleven +o’clock service. The magnificent organ, played by Mr. +Pitts, sent forth its thrilling peals precisely at the +moment. The organ itself is considered one of the very best +in London, and cost 2,000<i>l.</i> Meanwhile four principal +priests appeared at the altar, and after bowing several times +turned to face the congregation. They proceed to the front +of the chancel, the centre one waving a rod, and one on each side +bearing his train and exhibiting the rich scarlet lining of his +robe. He bows lowly, and stretches out the rod waving it +right and left over the people, and they retire again to the +altar. This action in glittering vestments, heralded and +followed by bursting music, is in all respects like the opening +scene of an opera, and ostensibly not a whit more solemn or +religious. It is difficult to realise that you are in a +house of prayer. It is useless here to give a description +of the whole performance. Barring a few brief intonings of +the priests in Latin it consisted entirely of the sundry dumb and +complicated bodily movements peculiar to the Mass. If we +were to criticise them it could only be to say, as we should say +of any other performing company, that this performer was more +graceful and striking in his action, et cetera, than the +other. The plentiful smoke of incense and the music made up +the rest. This latter accompanied the whole with the +briefest intervals. <a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>There were solos and choruses +innumerable, and the art-pretension of the performance was its +great feature. The choir is railed in effectually from the +congregation around the organ, and consists of male singers only +in plain dress, under the conduct of M. Wilhelm Schulthes, a +composer of some note. It is but just to say that the +singing was in itself excellent, if one could forget the main +object for which a church is erected. The voices were +unexceptionally good, and the parts brilliantly executed; but the +whole was <i>operatic</i> in effect—too secular, and too +much of it, to assist devotion. But the Mass music of the +day is employed with a special regard to popularity; which, +however, as a matter of fact, and as a part of religious service, +it does not succeed in acquiring. There is, after all, an +idea, however vague, in the popular mind of the moral +“fitness of things,” and if people find themselves in +a place ostensibly for Christian worship, and yet chiefly +entertained with an artistic and elaborate display of music not +distinctively devotional, it does not commend itself to their +better judgment. The congregation at the Oratory on Sunday +morning appears to bear out this remark. Had the same +musical skill been announced for an ordinary evening concert in +any London music-hall it would have commanded plenty of patronage +at 5s. and 2s. 6d.; but in this case (although the charge was +only 3d., and 1s. for the best seats) they were far from fully +occupied. Undoubtedly, the most rational and appropriate +part of the service was the sermon, which was preached +<i>extempore</i> by Father Law, who is the morning preacher for +the “Month of Mary”—a somewhat youthful-looking +Father, but he discovers considerable maturity of mind; and +somewhat pleasingly surprised us at the Protestant colour of some +parts of his teaching. Grounding his remarks upon Luke xix. +5: “Zaccheus make haste and come down, for to-day I must +abide at thy house,” the preacher explained how it was that +Jesus dwelt with his people. In passing, the preacher +observed that Christ dwelt with us in his Church, sacraments, and +through the “Blessed Lady,” who ruled over them that +day, in allusion to the peculiar homage paid to the Virgin at +this time. But this was only in passing, and as though to +keep his Catholicism in countenance. He enlarged chiefly +and with much feeling upon what was, he said, “most +important of all,” “Christ dwelling in us by the Holy +Ghost, and so abiding with us,” in our inner life. +The Rev. Father seemed for the moment to rise above the trammels +of peculiar Popish dogmas, and to conceive the fundamentals of +religious life as practicable without them. Certainly he +did not say as much in as many words, but if he did not intend +it, his discourse was without meaning or aim. It is +remarkable that on the previous Sunday we listened to an Anglican +divine discoursing on the same subject, and were boldly told +without any qualification that Christ dwelt in his people +“by means of the Holy Sacraments.”</p> +<p>There are attached to the Oratory day-schools for boys and +girls, which are carried on in Pont-place, near to St. +Luke’s Church, and are rather numerously attended. +There is also what is termed “The Nursery of our Lady and +St. Philip Creche,” at 56, Walton-street, where infants of +working people, from three weeks to five years old, are taken +charge of whilst their parents are at work in the day-time. +References must be given as to honesty and engagements before the +child is admitted, and 3d. per day is charged for each +child. The church itself will accommodate about 1,200 +persons.</p> +<h3>KENSINGTON CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Kensington Chapel</span>, on the east side +of Allen-street, is worthy of notice. It is substantially +built of stone, and commands a foremost place amongst the best +examples of classic architecture in the neighbourhood. The +portico is the most noticeable portion. Its Corinthian +columns and pilasters are in good proportion and well-executed, +and assure even the most unpractised eye of their capability to +support the massive entablature and pediments that surmount +them. The present minister, Dr. Stoughton, laid the chief +corner-stone in June, 1864. The interior is well and +handsomely treated, and is light, commodious, and adapted for +sound. The large British School recently erected is +certainly not an improvement to the architectural appearance of +the chapel. There is a want of truthfulness about the +design, which one must regret, seeing that the chapel itself is +in such good taste.</p> +<p>The church connected with this place traces its origin so far +back as the year 1795, and owns a very interesting history. +The first Congregational Chapel was in Hornton-street, and was +founded in 1793; and in October, 1794, the Rev. Dr. Lake was +chosen first pastor. In March of the following year he +gathered into religious communion about forty persons, and on the +9th of April following was solemnly ordained to the pastorate by +Dr. Hunter, author of “Scripture Biography,” who was +assisted in the service by other ministers. The church and +congregation gradually increased under Dr. Lake’s ministry, +and also under his successors. These were men of no less +eminence than the Revs. John Clayton, Dr. Liefchild, and Dr. +Vaughan. For a church to have held such pastoral relations +in unbroken succession, and for these to be followed and crowned +by the worthy name of the present esteemed minister, Dr. +Stoughton, is a remarkable fact, and prepares us for chronicles +of superior influence and success. In this we are not +disappointed. In the year 1845 the jubilee of the church +was celebrated. Dr. Stoughton had commenced his <a +name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 26</span>ministry in +1843, and on the 50th anniversary preached a commemorative +sermon. From this, which is in print, it would appear that +the first half-century witnessed a gradual but certain growth of +Congregationalism in the town, the number of church members +having increased from the foundation number of 40 to 251. +These were the figures when Dr. Stoughton began his work. +The labour of those earlier times had been well and patiently +done, and the basis firmly laid for a larger edifice of success +to come. The Rev. John Stoughton appears to have been the +well-chosen minister for the opening era of its later +history. On Monday, October 4, 1868, the church and its +friends rejoiced together over the fruits of the pastor’s +labours through a quarter of a century. At that time, which +may be allowed to speak for the present, 1,200 members had been +added, and there was a fixed membership of 500, having just +doubled itself since 1843. The Hornton-street Chapel had +been enlarged in 1845 at a cost of 1,400<i>l.</i>; a branch +chapel—now known as the Horbury Chapel, +Notting-hill—had been built in 1849, and a church, of 40 +members and 100 seat-holders, given it from the parent +congregation to begin with. This new cause was largely +aided and supported by Mr. Stoughton and his people. +Notwithstanding this separation, the places of those who had +retired to the north of the parish were soon filled, and the +chapel became overcrowded, so that it became a necessity to +provide new and enlarged accommodation. Hence the present +commodious chapel in Allen-street, which was opened for Divine +worship on the 30th of May, 1855, the foundation-stone having +been laid in June, 1854. The entire cost, including the +freehold site and organ, was 8,748<i>l.</i> 9s. 6d., the whole of +which was defrayed by the end of January, 1860; 600<i>l.</i> more +was laid out on repairs and embellishments in 1863. There +is accommodation for 1,000, including about 250 free +sittings. More recently British schools have been built, +adjoining the chapel, at an outlay of 5,000<i>l.</i>, which now +have from 300 to 400 children in attendance. Here, also, +large and important Sunday-schools are conducted, having about +700 children under religious instruction. These were +established in the year 1809. We understand that every +available sitting is at present let; and the congregation +contains several persons of literary eminence and professional +distinction. It is generally of that character which a +minister of Dr. Stoughton’s ability may be expected to draw +and keep around him. For Christian liberality it is justly +entitled to a record; and is, undoubtedly, one of the best +instances to be found of what can be achieved on the voluntary +principle when intelligently and powerfully directed. +During the first twenty-five years of Dr. Stoughton’s +ministry—independently of the amounts raised by pew rents, +&c., for support of the ministry—there was raised for +various objects the noble sum of 32,821<i>l.</i>, being an +average of 1,313<i>l.</i> per annum. 12,800<i>l.</i> was for +chapel and school building purposes; 8,870<i>l.</i> for +missionary societies at home and abroad; 5,630<i>l.</i> for +support of educational institutions; and 5,480<i>l.</i> for +relief of the poor and distressed, both in a general way and in +various cases of public need. This scale of giving is +maintained and even enlarged upon, the church raising +500<i>l.</i> for the London Missionary Society last year; +and—which may be considered an expression of genuine +catholicity of spirit—contributing 100<i>l.</i> towards the +building fund of the new parish church now in course of +re-erection. Annual collections are made for St. +Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, the West London Hospital, for +a Christmas Poor Fund, Chapel Building Society, London City +Mission, and various other Christian objects. There is no +endowment, and the ministry is entirely supported from seat +rents. As a proof of the esteem in which the minister is +held, the church voted him 400<i>l.</i> in 1868, to enable him to +visit Palestine, which he did; and it may be added that at the +present time a co-pastor is being arranged for to assist him in +his labours.</p> +<p>The Rev. Dr. Stoughton has the good fortune—attending +but few settled pastors in the same degree—to enjoy the +continued confidence and good opinion of his people; and through +the effect of a prolonged ministry he has acquired an amount of +influence over them seldom realised. That influence has +been for good. It has lifted them out of the narrowness +which, rightly or wrongly, is generally considered an attribute +of close churches; it has moulded them into a catholic temper, +and imbued them with social sympathies which render them a fact +and a power in the town and district. “Like priest, +like people,” is an old adage; and probably it has never +found a better illustration than in the present instance. +And where the former has strength and goodness combined, the +likeness to himself he impresses upon his congregation over a +long ministry, at any rate, ought to be traceable. Dr. +Stoughton himself cultivates the most friendly relations with +ministers and Christian people of all denominations. +Occasionally at his house may be witnessed a little Evangelical +Alliance, in the presence of a bishop, or a dean, or an +archdeacon, with clergymen Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and +Congregational; and the same genuine fraternal feeling he carries +into public meetings and committees of all kinds where general +Christian or social interests are concerned. On the rev. +gentleman’s pulpit characteristics it is scarcely necessary +to enlarge. In these sketches it is our plan only to say +enough on this point to indicate the general standard of +preaching, talent, or aptitude, together with the doctrinal +teaching and mode of conducting service. As to the latter, +the minister appears in the pulpit in a gown; and in the singing +part of the service the usual Congregational Hymn-book is +supplemented by a collection of church music, consisting of +chants, anthems, <i>Te Deum</i> and Sanctuses. After the +second prayer the <i>Te Deum</i> is sung; and the music, both for +hymns and chants, inclines pretty much to the Gregorian +strain. We may describe this congregation, in <a +name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>its general +tone and style of worship, as occupying that part of the +Dissenting territory which lies nearest the Church of +England. In the minister’s personal part there is a +brief opening prayer, a lesson, a second prayer, a second lesson, +and a third prayer; and in these several extempore petitions, in +the present instance, were included almost every conceivable +object of supplication hardly exceeded in variety of matter by +the Book of Common Prayer itself. The discourse was founded +on 2nd Corinthians x, 5: “Bringing into captivity every +thought to the obedience of Christ,” and was delivered +extempore, with the aid only of a manuscript skeleton. The +perfect ease and quiet of the preacher is apt at first to tempt +the stranger to think him slightly indifferent to his hearers; +but he has only to be heard a while to convince one that the +feature arises from complete self-control and command of his own +thoughts; and that, so far from indifference, it arises from +deliberate anxiety to clear himself with the intellect and +conscience of his audience. It is certain that this is +achieved with great success. The clearness of the +preacher’s thoughts, and equal clearness and felicity of +his language, make one feel as though sitting in the calm light +of intellect, reflected from every point of the compass. +Starting with the assertion that the words of the text were +directly “against the grain” of the “most +fashionable thinking of the day,” which was on the side of +what was called “freedom of thought,” he entered the +lists with the free-thinkers of the period. Demonstrating +with a masterly hand that the true liberty of our nature is only +found in the captivity of thought to the obedience of Christ, he +showed, on the other, with convincing power, that the boasted +“freedom” of the day was slavery itself. It was +slavishness to prejudice, to some human irresponsible authority, +to the most “fantastic ideas,” without any basis in +reason, to an idea of novelty and change, where, however, there +was no originality; for, the preacher remarked, amidst all this, +“originality was a very rare thing in our +time.” The freedom contended for was one which bound +our whole nature up in the bonds of fixed and rigid laws of +development, which extinguished the very possibility of +freedom. After so withering an exposure of the boasted free +thought of the age, there was peculiar force and beauty in +pressing home the great Gospel truth, “But if the Son shall +make you free, then are ye free indeed.” Christ +carries us away captive; but He does it as a conqueror of our +foes, who tyrannised over us; and following in His train is our +deliverance, our “freedom.”</p> +<p>On Sunday, service is held at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and at 3.15 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> a prayer-meeting in the +Lecture-room. The Lord’s Supper the first Sunday in +the month after morning service; baptism every three months, both +to adults and children, or more frequently if desired. +Communion tickets are distributed to members in December, which +they are expected to put into the plate after each +celebration. Members are accepted after private +conversation with the minister, and approval by the church in its +ensuing monthly meeting. The time when the minister may be +consulted on this solemn subject is from six to seven on Thursday +evenings weekly.</p> +<h3>THE WESLEYAN CHAPEL, WARWICK GARDENS.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The Wesleyan Chapel</span>, situate at the +corner of Warwick-gardens, Kensington, is a specimen of one of +those buildings by which we may say that Nonconformists have made +a step in the right direction. It is architectural, and, +though of simple character as regards material, being of brick +and stone and covered with slate, yet the brick and stone have +been treated very successfully in the design of the west +front. It claims to be an example of Early English work, +and, with its spire and pinnacles, forms a good feature, seen +from the entrance of the gardens from the Kensington main +road. Enclosed by iron gates and rails, and dwarf walls, +the chapel is approached by a flight of steps and entered by a +vestibule or lobby, which also gives access, to the right and +left, to the gallery stairs. Inside, considering the large +galleries, which at all times are an objection, the effect is +exceedingly good. The light ribbed roof over the body of +the chapel is supported by a timber arcade of very good design, +and if, instead of iron, the columns that receive the arcade had +been of wood, we should, in spite of the galleries, have been +able to report some very successfully effective work. The +organ is recessed, and appears just above a somewhat tall and +bulky pulpit. Beyond this there is very little to remark +save the quiet neatness that prevails generally. The +basement is occupied by school and class rooms and offices, with +separate entrances and approaches. The chapel is from the +designs of Messrs. Lockwood and Mawson, of London and Bradford; +and the building contract carried out by Mr. Nevill Simonds, of +London. The warming was executed by Messrs. Stuart and +Smith, of Sheffield; and the standard gas-lights by Messrs. +Thomasson and Co., of Birmingham.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p10bb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Warwick Gardens" +title= +"Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Warwick Gardens" +src="images/p10bs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>This chapel was opened for worship on Thursday, the 10th +December, 1863, and is partly the fruit of a general effort among +the Wesleyan Methodists for chapel extension in London and its +suburbs. The first metropolitan chapel building fund was +started in 1861, and zealously promoted by the Rev. W. Arthur, +M.A., and the late Rev. John Scott, in connexion with several of +the wealthier laymen. The <a name="page28"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 28</span>spirit of church and chapel erection +which has recently taken hold of other leading religious bodies, +and notably of the Establishment, has been largely participated +in by the Wesleyan body; so that the chapel business which +centres in a Chapel Committee has become a very large and +imposing department. It superintends the erection of +chapels in every part of the Connexion, and has its rules upon +which these works are to be carried out. Every chapel built +without compliance with its regulations and primary sanction is +jealously viewed, and reported to Conference as irregular, with +profound “regrets” at the Methodistic insubordination +implied in it. No matter though a chapel be made really a +good property of and handed over, it cannot condone the offence +against the spirit of <i>red-tapeism</i> centreing in the +Conference Committee. It will only be officially recognised +after a good scolding has been administered to the offenders for +the pains they have taken to erect a chapel for Methodism. +This is one of the points at which the Central Conference rule is +liable to collision with local voluntary efforts, and often +produces great irritation. The Committee administers the +chapel erection fund and makes grants in aid. It also +controls a large sum of money—raised some years ago to +assist in clearing chapels from debt. This money is lent +out to trustees upon application, to be returned in so many +annual instalments, free of interest. Probably no fund has +been more useful to the material interests of Methodism. +Chapels formerly burdened with debt have been set free by yearly +payments similar to what they were before paying for interest; +and thus their resources have been left available for extension +purposes. There is also a special fund for chapel building +in Watering-places, commenced by the Rev. W. M. Punshon in 1861, +which succeeded very well as far as it went, but did not attain +large dimensions. The “Metropolitan Chapel Building +Fund” is a more important and progressive affair. It +started with a subscribed fund of 20,000<i>l.</i>, to be kept up +by annual appeals; and an effort is now being made to raise a +very much larger sum—Sir Francis Lycett having made the +generous offer of 50,000<i>l.</i>, to be distributed in sums of +1,000<i>l.</i> each to fifty new chapels, that shall be erected +in the metropolis with a specified accommodation, within a given +time. For this offer to be utilised to the full extent, at +least 200,000<i>l.</i> will have to be raised.</p> +<p>The Warwick gardens Chapel benefited from the first fund to +the extent of 1,000<i>l.</i>, the whole estimated cost being +4,700<i>l.</i> In default of a freehold, 32<i>l.</i> per +annum is paid as ground-rent, which was to be covered by a yearly +investment. 1,175<i>l.</i> was left as a temporary debt, to +be paid off within one year. We believe, however, that this +was found to be impossible, and the debt in whole or part, still +remains. The estimated income from seat-rents was fixed at +200<i>l.</i> per annum, a very small estimate indeed, had the +project succeeded. But in this there has been grievous +disappointment. The chapel will accommodate 1,000 persons, +but after more than seven years it hardly commands an average +congregation, in all, of 200, and a number of these are from a +distance, and properly belonging to other Methodist +congregations. We fear, therefore, this is a case to be +recorded as so far a failure.</p> +<p>A degree, perhaps, of laudable ambition has led some leading +Methodist ministers and laymen of late years to desire to place +chapels in neighbourhoods different from those usually +occupied. In short, there has been a movement to plant +chapels in more <i>respectable</i> localities, such as that of +Warwick-gardens. But if the experiment is to be judged by +its results in this instance, it would appear a lamentable +mistake; and it may after all be worth considering whether John +Wesley’s own rule will not yet serve Methodism for all +time—“To preach the Gospel to the poor, and to go not +only to those who need us, but to those who need us +most.” There are Sunday-schools, where about 100 +children of both sexes attend; and four or five small classes, +which include all the society at present attached to the +chapel. It is united in what is called the Bayswater +Circuit, the headquarters of which are in the Denbigh-road, +Bayswater, and which has three ministers appointed to it by the +Conference. These are assisted in the occupation of the +pulpits by ministers belonging to Connexional departments in +London, or students from the college at Richmond. The +chapel, therefore, has the best ministerial provision that the +system of Methodism can supply, but there appears to be no public +effect. On Sunday evening, 21st of May, the pulpit was +occupied by the Rev. W. B. Boyce, one of the secretaries at the +Mission-house in Bishopsgate-street. He holds a high +position in the body, and on many accounts is deservedly +respected. He has seen much service in the Mission-field; +and to this it may be in part attributable that he retains in +speech the broad provincialisms of his early life. He also +holds fast to the old Methodist style of putting the doctrine of +“Conversion,” which was the subject of his +discourse. According to his teaching on this occasion, a +man may be everything Christian to the outward eye—and even +be a martyr for the truth—and yet be unconverted, unsaved, +and perish eternally. If such a case be <i>possible</i>, we +must remark it is so rare in experience that it may well cause a +minister to pause before he gives it prominent and unqualified +application in a sermon. There are certain to be a number +of weak consciences and doubting minds in every congregation, who +must be very much troubled and perplexed with such teaching, +whereas there may not be a single individual to whom it really +applies. It is a mode of preaching, in our idea, not based +upon sufficiently large views of human experiences and +circumstances; yet Mr. Boyce exhibits great sincerity and +earnestness.</p> +<h3><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>THE +SCOTCH CHURCH, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Scotch Presbyterian Chapel +stands at the corner of the Foxley-road and Allen-street, and is +a fair specimen of geometric gothic. Of course it requires +the tower to be finished to make it the good architectural object +that it should be in the long perspective of Allen-street; yet it +is even now fairly prominent, and is substantially built of +Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings, and roofed with +slate. The principal entrance is on the north side, over +which is a large and rather noticeable window, and the rose +window in the west gable, too, seems to invite the visitor to an +inspection of the interior. Passing through a very plain +corridor or vestibule, the body of the chapel is immediately +entered to the right and left hand. A feeling of +disappointment it is impossible to repress ensues. The +interior in no way accords with the idea conveyed by the outside +inspection. It is roofed in one span, and heavily ceiled +and panelled, producing a sense of depression. The walls +are simply bare plaster, the pulpit very large and heavy, the +pewing poor and plain. A northern gallery, evidently +intended for an organ, is organless, and not much improved by +large curtains. The Presbyterian movement in Kensington +began in 1861, under the present pastor, the Rev. Gavin Carlyle, +in a hall in Holland-street. After about a year’s +labour in this place some forty or fifty members had collected, +and it was then resolved to build a church. A site was +first sought in Campden-hill, but was not to be found +there. Ultimately the present site was scoured, the +building commenced in July 1862, finished in May 1863, and opened +on the 24th of that month, and the Rev. Mr. Carlyle, was formally +ordained to the charge on June 2nd following. Since then +the progress has been steady; and the membership has increased to +between one and two hundred. The church is connected with +the English Presbyterian Church, and the late Dr. Hamilton, of +the latter, took great interest in it, and did much to originate +it. It will contain 500 persons, and cost to build +5,280<i>l.</i>; by the addition of galleries, it would be capable +of accommodating 700 or 800. There is no endowment, and the +minister is dependent upon pew-rents and voluntary +offerings. A Dorcas Society is kept up by a few ladies; and +collections are made annually for foreign missions and other +objects. The Duke of Argyll is a seatholder and frequent +communicant; and other persons of general and literary +distinction. At a meeting a few weeks since, at which the +Duke of Argyll presided, several Indian and other notabilities +were present, including Dr. Macleod, Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Wm. +Hill, &c., who had assembled to hear a lecture on India, by +Dr. Wilson, of Bombay. The Rev. Gavin Carlyle is an M.A. of +the Edinburgh University, and studied theology in the Free Church +College, Edinburgh, followed by a year’s study in +Germany. He is a nephew of the famous Edward Irving; and +editor of his uncle’s “Collected Writings,” +published by Strahan and Co. He is also editor of the +<i>Weekly Review</i>, the weekly organ of Presbyterianism in +England; also of <i>Christian Work</i>, a monthly journal of +religious and missionary intelligence. Mr. Carlyle’s +congregation is at present a small one compared with many; but on +the occasion of our visit his sermon was certainly such as to +justify a larger attendance. It was the first of a series +of discourses on the Ten Commandments, and founded on the first +“I am the Lord thy God,” &c. The distinct +existence and all-pervading presence and control of the Almighty +was the subject. It was well and clearly treated, in a +manner to meet the principal intellectual quibbles or +difficulties of the times; and the preacher proved to the +satisfaction of every thoughtful mind—to use his own +words—that “all reason speaks to us of God; and that +it is nothing but unreason and mystical cloudiness that +attributes the effects of Nature to any other cause or +operation,” and that science when rightly conceived is +“the handmaid of religion.”</p> +<h3>THE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, BROMPTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Brompton Episcopal Chapel, +situate close to the Brompton-road, in Montpelier-street, is a +structure strictly Georgian in its character, Georgian indeed to +the back-bone, if one may be allowed to use such an expression +ecclesiastically. It has no beauties to make it worthy a +visit in the search after the picturesque. It is simply +ugly outside, and very little more may be said of it +inside. It rather reminded us of old Kensington Church, +without its historical interest. Like all buildings of the +kind, it has its painted columns supporting a flat ceiling, and +high-back gallery. It has its high pulpit and prayer-desk, +each duly draped in hot velvet, its high-backed pews comfortably +shut up and cushioned, in fact, everything belonging to it is +high, only that it would be too much to call it High Church.</p> +<p>This chapel attained its centenary in 1869, being opened on +Easter Sunday, 1769, as a chapel of ease to the parish church of +Kensington. The Rev. Richard Harrison was the first +minister, who was a preacher of some note, and continued his +labours to the end of life, which occurred in 1793. A +tablet to his memory may now be seen on the south side of the +Communion-table. Since then the course of the ministry has +been somewhat chequered, and not always connected with the +happiest reminiscences. Although so ancient a chapel, it +appears <a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>to +have been generally poor, and the only relic it contains of +bygone days is a set of old <i>pewter</i> collecting-plates, +having the original engraving, “The Parish of +Kensington.” The building is now seen in every +respect as it was at the beginning. It has successfully +resisted all modern innovations; no alterations of any kind have +taken place, excepting that a coating of stucco has been bestowed +upon the front. The same is true of the character of the +public service. It has rigidly preserved its own unadorned +plainness, against all the ecclesiastical refinements of later +years. The clergy are ordained ministers in the Church of +England, and licensed by the Bishop of London, and the present +are the Rev. W. Dunford, who is also the private owner of the +property, and the Rev. W. Crofts Bullen, assistant +minister. The latter was doing duty at the time of our +visit, with rather a thin congregation, but showed considerable +earnestness, read distinctly and audibly, and preached in his +black gown an extempore discourse on Rev. iv. 3. The +sublime passage was expounded by references to other parts of +Scripture, connected with some plain, out-spoken utterances +applied to the audience in a fearless and faithful manner. +Regarding the text as symbolical of the Holy Trinity—it +being Trinity Sunday—the preacher knew nothing about +“the liberality of faith in the nineteenth +century.” There was “a severe and hard line to +be drawn between the believer and unbeliever, the saved and the +unsaved.”</p> +<p>The Episcopal Chapel will hold about 800 persons, and the +congregation averages from 400 to 500. Having no endowment, +the clergy rely only on seat-rents and quarterly collections for +church expenses, which are made by passing the pewter-plates +round to the assembly in the pews. There is a good +Sunday-school carried on in the chapel, morning and afternoon, +with about 130 scholars, a number which it is said might be +greatly added to but that the Churchwardens will not allow more +space. This unfavourable condition, however, the zealous +superintendent, Mr. Warder and teachers, assisted by the +children, are seeking to remedy, having opened among themselves a +weekly subscription towards a separate and commodious +schoolroom. The weekly pence already contributed amounts to +50<i>l.</i> This is a most worthy example; and it may be +hoped that some large-hearted persons outside the school, may +some day or other feel inclined to encourage by large gifts so +laudable an attempt at self-help. The school is also +provided with a library by subscriptions of the teachers and +churchwardens, from which books are lent free of charge. +The Sunday-school is an interesting feature at this chapel, and +is said in the neighbourhood to be highly prized by the children +themselves, who are reported to be most regular in +attendance. The services are—Sunday, morning at 11, +evening at 6.30; Wednesday at 7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>; +the Lord’s Supper on the last Sunday in the month. +The hymn-book used is a selection of psalms and hymns arranged by +the Rev. Charles Kemble, M.A.—the 1853 edition.</p> +<h3>ONSLOW CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Onslow Chapel</span>, situate in Neville +terrace, Brompton, has many pretensions to Gothic architectural +effect. It is slightly decorated in design, and somewhat +early. Long before the two churches were thought of, +between which it now stands, St. Pauls and St. Peters, its two +little spires could be seen like landmarks in the surrounding +plain. It is one of those early attempts of the +Nonconformists to establish a better style of architecture in +their buildings for public worship. The west front is, +however, all of which it can boast, the inside being of true +chapel type, consisting, one may almost say, of a large hall, +ribbed and vaulted in plaster. The western gallery adds to +the accommodation for sittings, and the body of the chapel is +well filled with simple pewing. The pulpit is tall, and +backed up by the organ. In the usual way the Vestry is at +the east end. The foundation-stone was laid by that great +and good man, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, in 1856.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p30b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Onslow Chapel, Brompton, 1856" +title= +"Onslow Chapel, Brompton, 1856" +src="images/p30s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>This chapel was built fifteen years ago, for the church then +meeting in Alfred-place, under the pastorate of the Rev. G. +Bigwood. It seats 650 persons, and cost +6,000<i>l.</i> But this outlay included, besides the +chapel-proper, convenient class-rooms, and a spacious schoolroom +which runs back on a line with the chapel into Neville-street, +and is now mentioned as Onslow Hall, a suitable place for +meetings and lectures. The Rev. G. Bigwood’s ministry +lasted about eighteen years, and he was succeeded in 1870 by the +Rev. Joseph Upton Davis, B.A., the present pastor. The +minister is a Baptist, but the membership is open to Christians +of other Evangelical communions. As a preacher, Mr. Davis +has considerable gifts. To a pleasing manner and voice +there is a goodly share of refinement, general evidence of +culture, and preaching ardour, which are essential to the modern +pulpit. “He that hath an ear let him hear what the +spirit saith unto the churches” was solemnly enforced, and +the dwellers in Laodicean ease—the “neither cold nor +hot”—were keenly rebuked, although affectionately +dealt with. The congregation was not a full one; but it was +pleasing to note that with very few exceptions all remained to +the Communion service, which immediately followed the first +service. The hymn after the sermon was followed only by the +benediction, briefly rendered, which, as a rule, is somewhat +unlike Nonconforming services, in which the preacher generally +offers a short prayer, having some reference in spirit to the +matter of the discourse. A Sunday-school is <a +name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>conducted in +the schoolroom, where, under management, 400 scholars assemble +morning and afternoon, superintended by Mr. Mayers. The +general services are—Sunday morning at 11, evening at 6.30, +Thursday evenings at 7, and communion the first Sunday in the +month.</p> +<h3>ST. BARNABAS, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Church of St. Barnabas is +situated in the Addison-road, and can be seen with pleasing +effect from the main road. In the distance the brickwork +has a nice grey tone about it, and harmonises well with the stone +dressings and tracery and the contrast of the mounting ivy round +the pinnacled buttresses gives a picturesque appearance which is +much assisted by pretty surrounding foliage. A nearer view, +however, is somewhat disappointing as to architectural detail, in +which it resembles the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, +which is generally considered the best example of perpendicular +Gothic. The west elevation is worthy of description. +The gable and pierced parapet partially conceal a low-pitched +roof, which is flanked by open bell turrets. The centre of +the gable is occupied by a large perpendicular window above the +western entrance to the church. This consists of a centre +and two side doors opening into a corridor or vestibule, giving +access to the body of the building and to the galleries right and +left. Flights of steps lead up to the several entrances, +which are enclosed by rather lofty railings and gates. The +interior, roofed in one span with sub-arcades or columns, is +finished with a flat ceiling, relieved and pannelled by +horizontal bands and kerbed ribs. Large galleries surround +three sides of the church, and at the west end a double +tier. At first sight these galleries look almost +unsupported, the iron columns are so slender as well-nigh to +escape observation. The body or ground floor is fitted with +simple square pewing, divided by a centre and two side +passages. Close to the western doors stands a bold font, a +fair specimen of perpendicular work. The pulpit is tall and +plain. The prayer-desk, lower and more ornate, is placed on +the north side of a very simple chancel arch, before which the +very handsome bronze eagle lectern stands slightly +elevated. The chancel is a simple recess, and its entrance +is occupied by stall benches. The front of the altar is +pierced with tracery, which has a good effect. The east +window is filled with stained glass of Georgian school design, +strongly reminding us of the Church of St. Dunstan, Fleet-street, +where there is a similar window.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p31ab.jpg"> +<img alt= +"St. Barnabas Church, Addison Road, Kensington" +title= +"St. Barnabas Church, Addison Road, Kensington" +src="images/p31as.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Three windows on the north side and four on others are also +filled with stained and quarried glass, with designs of a better +school.</p> +<p>The organ, a fine instrument by Walker, is at the west end in +the gallery, and well decorated.</p> +<p>It is now forty-three years since this church was consecrated, +and during the last eighteen years it has been under the same +incumbent, who has been one of the Kensington Clergy for nearly +thirty years. It occupies a large district in the west of +Kensington, and has itself, in progress of time, become a parent +church to several others which have risen within its +bounds. St. Philip’s and St. Matthias are districts +formed out of it; and the more recent erection of St. John the +Baptist’s Church in the Holland-road marks a still further +development. It has also a separate appendage to itself in +the “Church House” in the Warwick-gardens, which has +been built to accommodate the surplus of its regular +congregation, sanctioned by the Bishop, and served by its own +clergy. Here invalids who cannot conveniently attend the +larger congregation, and such as cannot for the present obtain +accommodation there, are invited to attend. In point of +fact it is altogether a separate church served by the Vicar of +St. Barnabas and his curates. As, however, it is treated +simply as an out-building of St. Barnabas—and is used for +the transaction of its various parochial business—we must +consider it as included with it.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p31bb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"St. Barnabas Church House, Warwick Gardens, Kensington" +title= +"St. Barnabas Church House, Warwick Gardens, Kensington" +src="images/p31bs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>St. Barnabas’ Church has accommodation for about 1,500, +and its morning congregation averages from 1,200 to 1,400, +looking well filled. The evening congregation, however, is +much smaller, as a rule, as is the case with most West London +churches. But we may attribute this partly to the existence +of an afternoon service, at which there is public catechising, +which is very fully attended. The church is daily open, and +the Holy Communion is celebrated every Sunday. There is no +High Church costume, or parade of surpliced choristers, but there +is a most efficient choir, who fill the space in front of the +organ in the end gallery. On the occasion of our visit, +which was St. Barnabas’ day, June 11, the church’s +annual Feast of Dedication, the performance consisted in a +Gregorian and other much more pleasing chants in D and A, with +hymns special to the occasion. The Gregorian strain never +pleases; and seems to us adapted mainly to break up and destroy +the natural form, music, and sense of the English tongue. +There are three curates, who perform their subordinate parts in +the service with great propriety and credit. Such only who +could accomplish this would be at all in keeping with the +character of the chief pastor. Dr. Hessey has a matured, +well-cultured Christian mind, in addition to learning, and +natural talent and taste for the duties of the pulpit. +There is also a gravity and kindliness in his general manner and +utterance which leaves one in no doubt as to the secret of his +power. The sermon on the occasion <a +name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span>of our visit +was an anniversary one, and as being confined to a portion of +appropriate historical Scripture (Acts xi, 26), did not offer +scope for the full exercise of the preacher’s powers. +Yet the evidence of their existence was there.</p> +<p>The clergy are supported chiefly by pew-rents, and there are +offertories and collections for various charities, missions, and +other objects. For the poor, for schools, missions, choir, +incidental church expenses, the Bishop of London’s Fund, in +aid of hospitals and other charities, there was raised altogether +in 1870 704<i>l.</i> 11s. 10¼d. Out of this it is +found impossible to provide for the heavier church +expenses. A church-rate is also levied, to which it does +not appear what response is made. We have reason, however, +to believe that no large sum is thus collected, or the +churchwardens would have been able to spend more on the +decoration of the church. There is clearly room for +considerable improvement here, and we hope there will be no great +difficulty in providing means to carry out the church repairs +which are so much needed. The whitewasher, painter, and +grainer might in the interior be employed with good effect.</p> +<h3>ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p>A <span class="smcap">building</span> set on a hill cannot be +hid, and it is literally true of St. John’s Church; it is +just on the crest, of Notting-hill, and may be seen from a great +distance in the perspective of the long road, to the west of +which it stands. Its effect is at first sight very good; +the spire, however, rising at the intersection of the nave and +transepts, appears too stunted, as if it had been drawn down +several feet into the tower, a fault to be deplored in many +instances. Built of stone and covered with slate, the early +English detail, generally very good, the character of the style +very truthfully retained, as shown by the chancel windows, the +well-executed caps and bosses, and in the eastern triplet, make +up a very excellent attractive whole. The plan of the +church is cruciform, and is divided into a nave and aisles, north +and south transepts, chancel and aisles, with a vestry at the +N.E. angle. There are several large galleries, one at the +west end, one in each of the transept and chancel aisles, which +add very considerably to the accommodation for sittings. +The organ is placed in the west gallery, and rather takes from a +good perspective, as seen looking westward, the stone columns and +plaster-moulded arcade giving a very poor effect; and the church +generally supports some well-designed work in the clerestory, +where oddly enough we find stone used again, though we cannot +help feeling glad to see it, instead of the plaster work before +referred to. The roof is high-pitched and open, of good +design, but, owing to so little of the light of heaven +illuminating the interior, we are unable to say much about +it. The lancet windows are not enough to admit the cheering +rays, and this is certainly a drawback; it gives to the church a +gloomy appearance which it ought not really to have. Most +of the windows are filled with stained glass, but of no good +type, except the eastern subject, representing the Lord’s +Supper. The font, close to the west door, is of simple +design, and has the emblems of the Evangelists sculptured in +relief on the bowl. The pulpit, too much like a large +wineglass, is lofty, and blocks out the view, looking east. +The pewing is very mean, and on a level with the pewing of the +passages, which is not improving. Some simple wooden +screens shut out the chancel from the aisles, and the table is +plain and railed off. The diaper work painted on the +chancel wall is well done and effective.</p> +<p>Early in 1845 the Church of St. John was consecrated for +divine service in the northern division of Kensington. +Misgivings were expressed at the time that the site, one of the +most attractive in London, had been chosen too far out in the +fields; but the population of the district has since risen from +less than 3,000 to more than 60,000, and has been partitioned +among six new parish churches, all built from voluntary +contributions, and maintained without endowments. The +church, parsonage, and schools of St. John’s represent an +expenditure of nearly 20,000<i>l.</i>, almost entirely raised +within the parish; and the subscriptions and collections for 1870 +amounted to 996<i>l.</i> collected in the church, besides +850<i>l.</i> pew-rents, and 2,390<i>l.</i> collected in other +ways for local and missionary purposes. Between 500 and 600 +children are in attendance at the schools, and nearly 400 of them +belong to the Parochial Provident Society, which consists in the +aggregate of 731 members. The congregation appear much in +need of the additional comfort and accommodation which would be +derived from removing the organ out of the west gallery, and +letting in the light from the handsome window behind it. +The design of the architect might then be carried out, and the +organ and pulpit be placed as originally intended, throwing back +the fronts of the north and south transept galleries. This +church has suffered a good deal at different times from +well-meant efforts to provide additional accommodation for the +vast population which has grown up round it; but nothing has been +done which might not be easily set right at a small +expenditure. The present incumbent has been seventeen years +in residence, and was appointed by the late Bishop Blomfield, of +London, the see to which the patronage belongs. The east +window is an adaptation in coloured glass of the <a +name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>“Last +Supper” of Leonardo da Vinci, and was offered by the +parishioners as a memorial of their sorrow for the early loss of +Eleanor Isabella, only child of Sir John Franklin, and wife of +the incumbent, who was cut off in the midst of a career of +singular activity and Christian usefulness about ten years +ago. A mural monument close by records the decease of the +previous incumbent, the Rev. E. Denniss, who fell a victim to +cholera in 1854. This likewise was placed there by the +parishioners as a monument of their affectionate regret; and it +is very observable that our new churches derive increased +solemnity and repose from the gradual increase of such mementoes +as these.</p> +<p>Out of 1,400 sittings, this church has about 400 free; all the +others let at rates varying from 4s. to 15s. per quarter. +The congregation is composed mainly of the well-to-do people of +that part, and the collections which are made for various objects +through the year average from 50<i>l.</i> to 60<i>l.</i> a +Sunday, whether it be for home or foreign objects. The +organist, Mr. Cooper, is surrounded in the orchestra by a +selection of the male Sunday scholars—who are evidently +well-trained, and make up an effective choir—without +surplices. The service is completely on the Evangelical +model, animated and thoroughly devotional, and the congregation +join in it earnestly. The prayers and lessons were well +read by a substitute for one of the curates, who are two, the +Rev. Messrs. Leicester and Newton. The sermon was preached +by the incumbent, the Rev. J. P. Gell, from Psalm iii. 4, +“He hath made his wonderful works to be +remembered.” The rev. gentleman’s preaching is +careful, practical, and devout; and appears to come directly home +to his hearers, over whom, through a long series of years he has +maintained a very manifest influence for good. The ordinary +services are on Sundays at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +and 7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and lecture on Wednesday +evening. At 12.30 there is full Communion Service every +first Sunday in the month, after the morning service; and an +early celebration at 9 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> on every +third Sunday in the month.</p> +<h3>ST. GEORGE’S, CAMPDEN HILL, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. George’s</span>, Campden-hill, +the spire of which, in the distance, is so closely allied to the +Kensington Water-tower and that other familiar object of West +London distance, Tower Cressy, that we suppose there are few who +are unacquainted with the rather odd-looking trio. Either +of them taken alone would form a good distance object, but as it +sometimes happens they all three lump together in the landscape, +the effect is not only odd, but certainly striking, the +water-tower always looking like the big brother of the other +two. St. George’s, however, must now be taken alone, +and really it deserves to be especially noticed. The church +stands N. and S., the south elevation being worthy of remark for +much excellent and effective detail. The tower and spire, +of fair proportion at the S.E. angle of the building, form an +important feature of this view. The spire is broached and +covered with slate in bands, and relieved with wooden spire +lights with iron finials, giving a picturesque appearance. +The tower is without buttresses, and, like all other portions of +this south elevation, is faced with stone in random courses, with +Bath stone quoins and dressings, and clean-cut bands of stone of +warmer colour. It is lighted by deeply-recessed lancet +windows, with columns and foliated caps, and bands on all +sides. The staircase within is clearly marked by raking +lines of windows, simple and effective. The centre of the +gable of this elevation is occupied by a large and boldly-treated +window, with geometric rose and four lancet lights, deeply +recessed with label mould, encircling three well-carved heads in +relief; this window is flanked by side two-light windows, partly +concealed by the tile roof of the large cloistered porch. +Being the principal entrance to the church, this roof is +supported by dwarf and massive columns, with carved caps and +cusped arcade. The whole forms a picturesque feature in +perspective. The side and north elevations are very plainly +treated in brickwork, with coloured bands or strings continued +round the buttresses. The windows are executed in stone, +plain-cut, unsplayed tracery; the reason for this change in +design is evident—these elevations will shortly be hidden +by the houses that are hourly springing up round the +church. The usual stone finials and crosses are replaced by +iron of like character.</p> +<p>The plan of the church is slightly cruciform, and consists of +a nave and aisles, east and west transept, a doubly-recessed +apsidal chancel, and aisles. Large galleries run round +nearly three sides of the body of the church, and at the south +end there is a double tier for school-children. Galleries, +as we have often observed before, do not improve the good effect +of a building; however, these galleries have a novel treatment: +the balcony—if such an expression may be used—is +suggestive of a conventional ship’s side with the ports +complete. We by no means wish to convey a false impression +by these remarks, for the lines of these galleries are very +graceful, and yet sufficiently angular to be quite in keeping +with the style of the church. The corbelled principals of +the galleries, too, are effectively cut; they take a bearing on +the iron columns of the arcades, from which, in every other +respect, they run clear. We never remember to have seen +iron better treated in church-arcade columns. The detail is +sharp and clean, and the columns are not so slender as to appear +unequal to their task of supporting the brick arches and +clerestory, and the light nave and other roofs with saw-tooth cut +and intersecting ribs. Generally the interior effect is +exceeding good, especially the arcade of the east transept. +There is evidence of great originality <a name="page34"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 34</span>of thought on the part of the +architect, which we cannot fail to notice and admire, and the +colouring is harmonious and quiet in the corbels, bands, and +courses, which are of stone, nearly all ornamented with flowing +Gothic scrolls, painted black and incised. The font is an +excellent example of early work jewelled with coloured bosses +round the circular bowl, with the inscription “One Lord, +one Faith, one Baptism.” It stands near to the +southern doors. The oak pulpit is elevated to suit the +galleries, stilted on stone clustered columns, with foliated +caps, and butts upon the chancel west pier. The oak-eagle +lectern is also at the entrance of the chancel, and is very well +executed. The pewing, perhaps the least attractive portion +of the fittings, is, however, well cut, but too dark to our +mind. The organ occupies the west chancel aisle, and is +placed over the vestries and quite undecorated. The chancel +windows in the apse are well filled with stained glass, by +Messrs. Lavers and Barraud. In the rose is represented the +Crucifixion; the four lancets, the Evangelists and their +emblems. The passages are paved with plain tiling. +Mr. Bassett Keeling, of Gray’s-inn, was the architect, and +we must congratulate him upon having produced an exceedingly +beautiful and original type of church. The first stone was +laid by the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair, in Feb., 1864, and by +Trinity Sunday in the following year the church was opened for +Divine Service.</p> +<p>This church is situated partly in the Ward of St. Mary Abbotts +and partly in that of St. John’s, Notting-hill, having in +both departments a little over 8,000 inhabitants. It +provides 1,400 sittings in all, 413 of which are free. But +these in cases of emergency can be added to by about 150, +provided by a system of <i>telescopic</i> seats, which can be +drawn upon occasions from under the fixed pews, across the main +aisles, filling up the entire area of the church. Six or +seven years ago the site of St. George’s was a +cabbage-garden; but a private Christian gentleman conceived the +happy idea of converting it to its present purpose, built this +beautiful edifice at his own cost, and presented it to the +district. The congregation has grown up almost as rapidly +as the building itself. All the sittings not free are let +at from 1<i>l.</i> 1s. to 2<i>l.</i> 2s. per annum, and the +congregation is usually full and of a superior class at the +morning and evening services. The Duke of Argyll and the +Earl of Airlie and families hold sittings, and usually attend +here, with other families and persons of note and character +located in and about this aristocratic neighbourhood. On +Sunday morning, the 25th of June, 1871 the church was crowded, a +rumour having gone abroad that the Princess Louise, the +daughter-in-law of the Duke of Argyll, was expected to be +present. If this were the cause, however, there must have +been considerable disappointment, as the Princess was certainly +not there. The Vicar, the Rev. George Bennett, who is +usually the morning preacher, preached a useful and +discriminating sermon on John xvii. 16, pointing out in what +sense Christ was not of the world, and in what sense his true +people are not of the world. Some seasonable remarks were +made about the temptation under which Christians now lie to +succumb to what is called “public opinion,” until +there is danger of their placing the voice of +“society” above the voice of conscience and the word +of God. Yet this was the only standard of right and wrong; +whilst the standard set up by the world was an <i>unreal</i> one, +and not sincerely believed even by those who, from the force of +fashion, practised it. The prayers were read by the Rev. +Mr. Becker, and the Litany by the Rev. Mr. Frampton, the +Curates. In this instance there is also a lay reader, Mr. +Gordon Cleather, who, in a surplice, read the lessons well and +distinctly. The Rev. Dr. Davis is the evening preacher, who +is known as a clergyman of distinguished talent. The church +has no endowment, and the clergy are maintained and the expenses +met out of the pew-rents and offertories. There are several +religious and benevolent institutions, also, supported by the +congregation or receiving aid from it. In St. +George’s Schools there are boys about 100 and girls the +same number, with infants about 130. These received +voluntary aid to the amount of 160<i>l.</i> in 1870. There +is a District Visiting Society account, for which, including a +<i>Maternity</i>, Provident, and Work Society, there was received +from various sources and disbursed the sum of 360<i>l.</i> in the +year. The offertories, apart from subscriptions—and +from which all objects are aided in proportion—brought +181<i>l.</i> 0s. 6d.; and there are lists of subscribers to all +the funds—as, for instance, to the Church Service Fund, the +offertories for which amounted only to 39<i>l.</i> 16s. 9d., but +which was raised by two collections in the year and subscriptions +to 108<i>l.</i> 11s. 4d. The worship is plain Church of +England, barring the intoning of portions of the prayers. +The choir is not surpliced, and the singing, for the most part, +lively, accompanied by a good organ, well played by Herr Sowerby, +Professor. The hymns are “Ancient and Modern,” +published at the Sacred Music Warehouse, Novello and Co., +Dean-street. The order of services are—Sunday: +morning at 11, afternoon 3.30, evening at 7; Wednesdays, Fridays, +and holidays. Holy Communion on the first and third Sunday +in the month at 9 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and on the +second Sunday after the morning service.</p> +<h3><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>ST. +PETER’S, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Peter’s</span>, Notting-hill, in +the Kensington-park-road, is an Italian edifice, looking of some +importance as regards its west elevation, the only portion of the +church seen from the road. On close inspection it is +disappointing to find stucco in place of stone facing the +work. The elevation consists of a large enclosed portico +with engaged columns, supporting an entablature and pediment, +which is surmounted by a square tower with engaged columns and +tower lights, and terminating with a sort of pepper box +top. Although not so prominently or so beautifully placed +as St. John’s, it has a pleasing appearance from the road; +the effect, however, is somewhat diminished by a dwarfed +cupola. A more lofty, tapering campanile would have added +much to its importance. The façade is not seen to +advantage, from its close proximity to the road. A large +vestibule gives access to the main body of the church and the +gallery staircases. The plan of the church consists of a +nave and aisles, a portion of the east end being railed off to +form a chancel. Three large galleries partly enclose the +church, and entirely cover the space of the aisles. Large +Corinthian columns and entablature support the roof; just above +the cornice are semicircular clerestory lights, glazed in a +fan-like manner. The roof is enclosed by a flat ceiling in +panels, ornamented with centre flowers, and the aisles are ceiled +at a lower level below the clerestory.</p> +<p>The church has had everything done for it that can be in the +way of decoration, which has been very beautifully executed, and +in perfect keeping with the style of the building. The +Greek ornament and colouring are at once harmonious and +agreeable, and should prove a good lesson to all, showing what +may be done to beautify even a heavy building, and how very +efficient church decorators have hitherto been in the adornment +of our churches. One can only hope that some whitewash +advocates may be induced from these remarks to visit St. +Peter’s. We are quite sure they will change their +minds—and some churchwardens may well blush for their own +doings, and set about an improved state of things in their own +churches. The east end is more ornately decorated than +other portions; the caps and bases of the columns are guilded, +the panels are fitted with diaper and lily ornaments. Some +rather happy stained glass, illustrating incidents in the life of +St. Peter, assists in producing an exceedingly well-conceived +whole. Two of the windows are of superior workmanship, by +Clayton and Bell, but the centre large one is slightly +pretentions, somewhat faulty in drawing, and not equal to the +general features of the decorations, though the appearance of the +chancel on entering the church is singularly fine. The +Gothic furniture and stalls of the chancel we dislike, being out +of place. The pulpit is cleverly contrived to be as light +and unobstructive as possible, yet necessarily high, on account +of the galleries, and, moreover, so gossamer-like with regard to +its enclosing railing, that any near-sighted strangers may be +forgiven for a feeling of nervousness for the safety of the +preacher.</p> +<p>The vase font is near the western entrance. The organ is +in the west gallery. Some stained glass of good design +fills some of the aisle-windows. The passages are paved, +with ornamental tiles, the pewing has been cut down, and would be +greatly improved raised four or five inches above the level of +the passage-paving. The church is thoroughly and +expensively heated with warm air, and lighted at night by a +sun-burner from the roof, containing 120 jets. Every +attention appears to have been paid to ensure the comfort of the +congregation. The most marked feature of St. Peter’s +Church is its interior, which, as a whole, is very +beautiful. The style is worked out in Pompeian red, and, +although florid in development, is by no means obtrusive; and +from the general harmonies of colour and subdued blendings, it is +thought to conduce to a feeling of devotional repose. The +galleries, however, constitute a great drawback to this otherwise +very pleasing interior. They are too flat in construction, +and too ponderous for the limited space between the roof and the +floor of the side aisles.</p> +<p>This church is one of six now gathered round the original +church of St. John’s, Notting-hill, and is allocated to one +of the six new parishes into which the old parish has been +subdivided. It was built in the year 1856, with funds +furnished partly by the incumbent and partly by donations from +the immediate neighbourhood. It has sittings for 1,400 +persons, out of which 400 are free. There are, in connexion +with it, large and exceedingly well appointed schools, numbering +150 boys, 150 girls and 220 infants. The efficiency of +these schools has been authoritatively commended.</p> +<p>The present vicar, the Rev. J. Robbins, D.D., of Christ +Church, Oxford, was appointed in the year 1862. We had not +the opportunity of hearing the rev. gentleman preach, but he read +the first lesson, and we consider him quite a model reader. +From a firm, distinct, and flexible utterance, and as from a +ready appreciation of its sense, Scripture is made to speak its +meaning, and to convey real effect in the reading. The +general order of service he has adopted is semi-choral. The +prayers are monotoned, the chants and responses are +Gregorian. The choir is mostly composed of boys, with +surplices, educated in the schools attached to the church, and +who sing the music about as well as such music can be done. +The Creed is, also, in reality, sung and accompanied with the +organ. We must confess to a disappointment in the effect +produced by the organ, the tones of which did not seem to +harmonise with the flow of voices; but we hear this is about to +be remedied. To many there would doubtless seem in this +service an excess of singing, and that, monotonous in a <a +name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>large +degree. But it is the High Church order of things; and St. +Peter’s is confessedly High Church. There are various +societies attached for the visitation of the poor and the +distribution of several charities.</p> +<p>The sermon on Sunday morning, July 2, 1871, was preached by +the Rev. C. R. Robinson, M.A., Canon of Rochester, for the +Gravesend (or St. Andrew’s) Waterside Mission. +Notwithstanding the inclement weather, the church was fully +attended by a congregation in the midst of which it was hard to +discern a single poor person. The preacher discoursed +pleasantly on 1 Peter v. 10, 11—“But the God of all +grace,” &c. His account of the origin of St. +Andrew’s Mission, of which he himself was the founder about +ten years ago, and of his personal interviews with seamen in +going to sea and returning, distribution of books, &c., +riveted the attention of the audience, and appeared to excite +intense feeling in favour of the noble objects of the +society. The usual preliminary part of the Communion +Service, including the Commandments, the Nicene Creed, Epistle +and Gospel, was not read; but the sermon followed the Litany and +hymn. The hymn-book used is “Hymns Ancient and +Modern” (Novello, Ewer, and Co., Berners-street). +Usual services—Sundays: 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +Holy Communion; 11, Morning Prayer, Litany, and sermon; 12.30 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Communion (choral); 3.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Evening Prayer and catechising the +children; 7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Evening Prayer and +sermon. Week-days: 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +morning prayer; 5.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Evening +Prayer (choral); Wednesday and Friday, Litany, 12.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>; Thursday, Communion at 7 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and also on saints’ days and +holidays. The church is open all day for prayer and +meditation, and a public notice at the doors requests “all +persons to observe silence.”</p> +<h3>ST. PAUL’S KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Paul’s</span>, Campden-hill, is +a large iron structure, standing at one corner of +Vicarage-garden. As an iron building there is very little +to say about it; it is not beautiful—iron buildings never +are—but the situation is so very charming, that, plain as +the features are of the church, the pleasant nook in which it is +placed seems quite to take from its ugliness and lend some of its +cheerful pastoral happiness to its iron tenant. One thing +strikes us as worthy of notice—the very large open porch at +the western entrance offers ample shelter and accommodation to a +large dispersing congregation in wet weather, and it has the +advantage of offering protection from heat as well as wet, and +keeps the west end of the building cool; it is like an open +vestibule or lobby.</p> +<p>St. Paul’s was erected as a chapel of ease to the parish +church, St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the year 1854, so that it +was one of the earliest of this temporary method of providing for +public worship; and it may be added that, from the present firm +and substantial appearance of the structure, it is evident this +comparatively inexpensive way of dealing with the +question—where larger funds are not at command—may be +made to do good service through at least a generation. It +affords accommodation for 1,200 people, and but few of the +sittings are free, not, we believe, amounting to more than +fifty. The church is served by the curates of Archdeacon +Sinclair, Vicar of Kensington, and at present, during the +re-erection of the new parish church, has double service +performed in it every Sunday. The early service at a +quarter to ten, and afternoon at half-past three, at which the +Archdeacon’s curates officiate, are for the congregation of +the Old Church, who, <i>pro tem.</i>, are without accommodation, +and the services at half-past eleven and seven are given to the +congregation of St. Paul’s, when the Archdeacon himself +usually preaches. This is of a high-class character, and +remarkable for a very large preponderance of gaily-dressed +ladies, quite in keeping with our established ideas of a court +suburb. The service is Evangelical, the clerical robes of +the simplest character, and the chancel without conspicuous +ornament of any kind, but that which is the greatest adorning of +a church, a reverent and rational performance of Divine worship, +without formalism or Ritualistic affectation of voice and +manner. We were favoured to hear the venerable Bishop of +Bangor, who delivered an impressive sermon, full of Evangelical +sentiment, from 1st Epistle of John, c. iii., v. 2: +“Beloved now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet +appear what we shall be,” &c. A young +clergyman—a stranger to the congregation—read the +prayers, Psalms, lessons, and Litany.</p> +<p>The congregation is of course interested in the schools and +charities belonging to the parent church, and contribute in a +liberal degree to their efficiency and support. These will +be fully described in their proper place, when we treat of the +beautiful new parish church now in course of erection.</p> +<h3>ST. JAMES’S, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. James’s</span>, Notting-hill, is +situated in the Addison-Road North, and is seen to some advantage +at the entrance to the road. From its central position, its +square tower and sharp pinnacles look grey and old, an appearance +which the church loses upon closer inspection. It is built +of grey brick, with moulded angle bricks and slight stone +dressings, and the low-pitched <a name="page37"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 37</span>roofs are covered with slate. +The plan of the church consists of a nave and aisles, with an +apsidal chancel, the tower forming an excrescent on the south +side, about the middle of the nave. This tower acts as a +porch on the lower story, and has a ringing floor on the gallery +level; these galleries surround the church on three sides, +extending to the arcades. In style the church is a revival +of the early English, and, like all churches of the period, is +full of mistakes, though as a specimen of that age it is perhaps +a very fair example. But the efforts of revivalists must +not be forgotten; much of our perfection, if it can <i>yet be +called so</i>, is due to their endeavours. The iron columns +of the nave are worthy of remark, showing how very well iron +could be treated even in those days. The roofs are open, +and though rather heavy possess some fair effect. The +windows are chiefly without tracery, and the stained glass is +poor. The pewing is very simple; the pulpit high. The +prayer-desk and oak-eagle lectern speak of a desire for better +things. The font is poor and too perpendicular. The +organ is in the western gallery. The decoration of the nave +is not well done; it is evidently the work of an unskilful +hand. There is no need for Greek ornament in a Gothic +building; surely there is scope enough for the ornamentalist in +Gothic work without going to the Greeks for examples.</p> +<p>St. James’s, Notting-hill, is one of the older modern +suburban churches, having been built more than a quarter of a +century ago, which is a great deal to say as compared with a +number of the churches we are now reviewing. It +accommodates 1,100 persons, and 500 of the sittings are free, +which is in larger proportion than general. It has national +schools attached to it, where 135 boys, 100 girls, and 150 +infants are instructed according to the principles of the Church +of England. These schools are kept up at a cost of about +500<i>l.</i> per annum, about 170<i>l.</i> of which is obtained +by Government grant, about 140<i>l.</i> from the children’s +fees, and the remainder from subscriptions and offertories. +There are Mothers’ Meetings and a District visiting +Society, with which is connected a mission woman and a +mission-house in Crescent-street, where extra services are +held. Also a Maternity Charity, and the “St. +James’s Norland and Potteries Benevolent Society,” +and an “Auxiliary Church Missionary Society.” +Help is also given to the Additional Curates Society and the +Bishop of London’s Fund. All these charities and +works were well inaugurated in the time of the former Vicar, the +Rev. T. P. Holdich, and have been well sustained since his +removal—three years ago—by the Rev. George T. Palmer, +M.A., his successor, and the present Vicar. An important +alteration, however, has been made in the mode of providing the +necessary funds. Formerly it was done by special annual +charity sermons; but for this method Mr. Palmer has substituted, +we are informed with some advantage to the interests concerned, a +weekly offertory, or collection taken at every Sunday morning +service, which is apportioned among all the charities and calls, +according to their relative claims. This covers everything, +and beyond it there is nothing but a church-rate, voluntarily +given, amounting to about 25<i>l.</i> per annum. From these +sources and the pew-rents the clergy are maintained, the church +expenses met, and the charities supported. The Curate, up +to Michaelmas-day last, was the Rev. P. E. Monkhouse, M.A., which +appointment he resigned on accepting the head-mastership of the +Notting-hill Proprietary School, in order to devote the whole of +his time to the education of the boys entrusted to his +charge. Mr. Monkhouse, however, still gives his services to +Mr. Palmer, and preaches frequently. His successor is the +Rev. I. Cammack. On the occasion of our visit the latter +read, or rather monotoned the prayers with a clear voice, and Mr. +Monkhouse read the two lessons with good taste and effect. +Mr. Palmer himself read in the Communion Service and preached the +sermon. In giving notice of the Communion for the following +Sunday morning, the rev. gentleman dispensed with the usual form, +and simply made the announcement that it would take place at nine +<span class="smcap">a.m.</span> The sermon was founded on 1 +Peter iii. 13: “And who is he that will harm you if ye be +followers of that which is good!”</p> +<p>The sermon was extempore, expository, and instructive. +What it was to follow good was well expounded; and the +limitations with which the implied promise was to be understood +clearly set forth. Although the Christian’s lot was +not to be represented too darkly, it was not to be supposed that +he had no trials or suffered no evils. Yet, after all, many +of his trials did not arise from his following good, but rather +from his not doing so in some particulars in connexion with which +his trials arose. Mr. Palmer has thoroughly entered into +the labours of his predecessors. He has, however, +instituted a few changes as to which some members of the +congregation, who could bear no variation from the order of +things under their old pastor, took offence and betook themselves +elsewhere—not in any great numbers, but it was sufficient +to draw from the rev. gentleman a justification in his first +pastoral. Therein he shows that some of the changes, +especially in regard to the offertory, were contemplated by Mr. +Holdich; and as to the conduct of the service, he had done +nothing but what was in accordance with the Rubric. To +allay all suspicions of a Ritualistic tendency which had, he +says, “unjustly, though not unnaturally risen,” he +declares to his flock his belief that “the practices +commonly known as Ritualistic are as much opposed to the spirit +and structure of the Prayer-book as they were for the most part +unknown in the worship of the Church in the apostolic age, and +that every decision in the ecclesiastical courts had made this +conclusion more plain.” There is no pretence for +styling Mr. Palmer a Ritualist nor a High Churchman. His +service occupies a position between the latter and what is known +as extreme Low Church. His prayers are not intoned, but +monotoned; his music is Anglican; his chancel is freshened up +with modest ornament; <a name="page38"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 38</span>the choir, although not surpliced, is +very efficient; the hymns used are “Hymns Ancient and +Modern.” He considers that “a dislike to +Ritualism had in many cases produced tediously dreary services, +and painfully indecorous conduct in church,” and has been +influenced by a desire to give “heartiness” and +“reverence” to the service. The words are +probably a little too strong to convey the true meaning. +Tedium and indecorum are, alas, things incidental to High service +as well as Low, and must by no means be connected essentially +with a plain and simple performance of worship. Mr. Palmer +has an interesting, well-conducted congregation of a very +respectable class, with a fair intermixture of the humbler +classes, especially in the evening. It struck us that the +assembly was heartily devout; but was not yet thoroughly +congregational in the singing. The last published pastoral +bears evidence to the energy with which the minister follows out +his plans for usefulness; but he has occasion still to notice a +degree of <i>unpunctuality</i> in attendance at the service, many +not being in their places at the reading of the general +confession. It is gratifying to see a clergyman dealing +faithfully with his people and entering into the details of their +practice, not shrinking from pointing out their failings as +occasion offers, but in an anxious and kindly spirit. For +this Mr. Palmer is to be admired, and his people will love him +all the more. Shortcomers have no objection to be +faithfully dealt with, if done in a genial temper; and it is a +mistake to suppose that winking at irregularities of this kind +pleases anybody.</p> +<p>Beyond the church and church work there are few things to be +noticed in St. James’s. We have only been able to +ascertain one very special matter of interest, which was found in +the book of the register of marriages. The marriage of a +certain Edward Walker and Ann Whinfield Williams, which took +place on Sept. 30, 1847, was attested by no less a personage than +the present ex-Emperor Napoleon—then as now an exile in +this country. As we read the handwriting, “Napoleon +Louis B.,” followed by another, “Count de +Montauban,” a crowd of reflections rushed to our minds such +as probably our own age alone could supply.</p> +<p>Services on Sunday are at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +3.30, and 7 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Holy Communion +is celebrated on the first, third, and fifth Sunday in the month +after “Morning Prayer,” and on other Sundays at 9 +<span class="smcap">a.m.</span></p> +<h3>ST. MARK’S, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Mark’s</span>, Notting-hill, +takes one by surprise, it being almost hidden from view until the +visitor turns the corner of the St. Mark’s-road. The +west elevation possesses some good composition, and is boldly +treated. The tower stands at the south-west angle of the +building, and is surmounted by a broached spire, covered with +slate in coloured bands, and terminating in a weathercock, with +the cardinal points indicated, relieved by spire lights. +The spire dies into a square brick tower, banded in colour with +stone dressing. The belfry windows are deeply recessed with +marble shafts and foliated caps, with sharp-pointed +lancets. The tower also contains one of the western +entrances to church, which forms an excellent feature. It +is treated as a square-headed double door, with the tympanum +enclosed by a large hood mould, encircling well-carved panels in +relief, containing the emblems of the Evangelists. The +principal gable contains a three-light, simply-designed west +window, with a series of lancets, and small buttresses +below. A porch also at the north-west angle, in harmony +with the rest of the front is plainly and boldly designed, and is +flanked by a stone pinnacle, the use of which we do not quite +understand. One of the most striking portions of the +outside, however, are a series of flying buttresses, which are, +unfortunately, nearly hidden from view by the closely-surrounding +houses. These buttresses spring from square piers, standing +perfectly free from the church, and in perspective giving the +effect of a north and south cloister arcade. The finials +are of iron.</p> +<p>Entering the church by either of the before-mentioned porches, +they lead into large lobbies, containing the gallery stairs, +separated by screen walls one from the other; in the northwest +porch is a large and handsome stone bench, the elbows well cut, +and each ornamented with a Maltese cross.</p> +<p>The interior may really be said to be grand, owing very much +to the imposing height of the nave and the fearless nature of the +detail of roof and clerestory; the bold ribs, the bold sustaining +caps and corbels, all with sharply-defined and clean cut foliage, +indicating a skilled hand in design. We confess not to be +very fond of many bands of brick and stone, they give to an +interior a sliced appearance and take away from the effect of +space; yet, notwithstanding this defect, there can be no question +of a fine effect of heights.</p> +<p>The detail of galleries—the arrangement of the arcade +and iron columns, with the clustered angle columns at the +transepts—resembles St. George’s, Campden-hill, which +was planned from the pattern of St. Mark’s. The +transept and chancel aisle arcade is also similarly +treated. The church is cruciform in plan, with the +galleries free of the transepts. The north transept +contains the organ in a sort of high-legged loft, which rather +looks like putting the organ out of the way. A fine +chancel-arch shows nearly the whole of the apsidal <a +name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span>chancel, the +walls of which are well-covered with a tessalace of tiles. +Seven steps lead up to the Communion space, the pulpit is raised +on four clustered shafts of red Mansfield stone, with +richly-carved caps, and handsomely enclosed with good ironwork, +instead of the usual stone box. The choir-stalls and +prayer-desk are complete and of good design, and the brass +lectern is well-raised. The pewing and bench-ends strike us +as being too heavy. The font is peculiarly elegant and +graceful, and is a good specimen of early work. The +passages are all paved with tile of dark colour. The style +of the church is early English ornately treated, if anything +perhaps a little too much so, the charm and beauty of early work +being its extreme simplicity.</p> +<p>St. Mark’s was consecrated on Nov. 27, 1863, by Bishop +Tait, the foundation-stone having been laid Nov. 1 in the +previous year. E. B. Keeling, Esq., was the architect, and +Messrs. Dove, Bros., the builders, and the cost in all +7,720<i>l.</i> A debt of about 1,000<i>l.</i> on the +building account was discharged by the contributions of the +congregation within the first three years. The site was +given by Mr. Blake, a freeholder in Notting-hill, and the sum of +5,000<i>l.</i> presented towards the building by the present +patron—a great gift and benefit to the locality. The +church is furnished with a good organ, built originally by Hunter +and Webb at a cost of 450<i>l.</i>, but which has been +considerably improved since by Bryceson, by the addition of +several stops, including the <i>vox humana</i>, at the moderate +further outlay of 65<i>l.</i> The instrument is skilfully +employed in the service by Mr. Tamplin, professor of music, who +has associated with him rather a numerous choir, which has, +within the last twelve months only, taken to surplices. In +the first instance the service at this church was Evangelically +plain; but within the last three years, monotoning the prayers +and chanting the psalms have been introduced, as well as a large +increase of Eucharistic celebrations, and now more recently the +surpliced choir. These changes have occurred under the same +pastorate—that of the Rev. Edward Kaye Kendall—who +has been Vicar of St. Mark’s from its foundation. Mr. +Kendall is an enlightened and able minister, as is evident from +his pastoral circulars and the good reputation he has among his +people; and we presume is fully satisfied in his own mind as to +these changes, although some others have not approved them. +His congregation is good. The church, including the +accommodation of <i>telescopic</i> seats, will hold 1,500, 1,000 +of the sittings being rentable, and 500 free. The average +congregation is about a thousand or over; and, together with a +large proportion of the higher middle class, there are many +poor. Earnest parochial work is being done. Quite +recently capital school buildings have been erected in St. +Mark’s road, where there is an average attendance on +week-days of near 400 children of both sexes, including infants, +and on Sundays 350. At the first a house close to the site +was rented and used as a school, but soon it was so crowded in +every room, and even on the stairs, that to obtain better +accommodation became a necessity, and it is gratifying to note +that the liberality of Mr. Kendall’s friends and +congregation has enabled him to accomplish this work with so much +expedition and success. A separate service is held for the +children on Sunday mornings in the schoolrooms, conducted +principally by lay-helpers, whose church-work the Vicar is very +anxious to utilise. Once a-month the children are also +taken to a service in the church in the afternoon. There is +a “Lay-helpers’ Association,” the members of +which, with the district visitors, have done much towards filling +the church with people, and in extending parochial work in +general. There is also a “Mothers’ +Meeting,” a “Clothing Repository,” a Provident +and a Maternity and Sick Funds, a Needlewomen’s +Institution, a Lending Library, and a Soup-kitchen in +winter. For these various objects, as well as for several +foreign Christian enterprises, the offertory account amounted +last year to 663<i>l.</i> 2s. 6d. There is no endowment, +and the clergy are supported and all expenditure provided for by +the pew-rents and other voluntary means. The usual services +are: Sundays, at 11, 3.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and 7 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Weekdays, on Wednesday, +prayers at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and Fridays +prayers at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and prayers and +sermon at 7.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Communion +every Sunday at 8.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and after +morning service, and on every holy day falling on a weekday at 8 +<span class="smcap">a.m.</span></p> +<p>We had not the opportunity of hearing the Rev. Vicar on +Sunday, July 23, 1871, his place being supplied by the Right Rev. +the Bishop of Honolulu (Dr. Staley). The prayers were +monotoned by the Rev. F. F. Kelly, LL.M., who succeeded to the +curacy at Christmas last, upon the removal of the Rev. A. H. Dunn +to Acton, where we understand the latter is very usefully +employed as a missionary in originating a new church, of which he +is to be the future vicar.</p> +<h3>ALL SAINTS’, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">All Saints</span>, <span +class="smcap">Notting-hill</span>, once looked desolate and +forsaken. It was like a church in a desert, and for a long +time remained so; but now the houses and pleasant squares have +grown up around it, and we can say it is situated in +Colville-gardens. It is early English in style, built of +stone in regular course, and covered with slate. At a +distance it is cathedral-like in miniature, and it is not too +much to say so, for upon a closer inspection the beautiful detail +of all its parts quite satisfies the mind of the artist, and he +leaves it without a <a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +40</span>feeling of disappointment. The roofs are peculiar +in the rise of their ridges at the gables. This gives a +somewhat broken look to them. The tower is very handsome, +but unfinished. It requires the lantern to be completed, +and marble shafts are required at the belfry windows. The +church has three entrances—one in the tower to the west, by +a handsome south porch, and by a north door. Slightly +cruciform in plan, without nave aisles, transepts, chancel, and +aisles, the nave arcade is peculiarly good, clustered marble +shafts, and well-designed caps and bases, with full moulding to +the arches. The clerestory is excellent in detail, and the +ring-post and ribbed roof is a change from the usual style of +church roof. The aisle corridors, too, are treated as a +light arcade with clustered marble columns. The church is +light, and the windows are filled with tinted and figured glass, +also some good stained glass in the aisles. The pulpit and +font are of alabaster; the pewing is light and of good design; +the flooring is tiled. The organ in south transept is +raised in a gallery of its own. The eastern wall of the +Sacrarium is decorated with fresco, rather floridly +painted—the angel saluting Mary and the birth of +Christ. These frescoes have been universally recommended by +art judges.</p> +<p>All Saints was consecrated in 1851, and represented an outlay +of 20,000<i>l.</i> The tower alone cost +10,000<i>l.</i>—a very large sum, when we consider the +incomplete character of the object on which it was spent. +One chief thing about it worth notice is its bell; which tolls +for church, and which has a deep and rich tone, reminding the +ear, more than any other in the vicinity, of a cathedral +“Tom.” The church is furnished with a very fine +organ, by Messrs. Gray and Davidson, and cost +1,500<i>l.</i> It has forty stops, including the <i>vox +humana</i>, and is, at present, under the management of Mr. +Walker, a pupil of Dr. Steggall. There is sitting +accommodation for between 1,100 and 1,200, 300 sittings being +free, and the remainder letting at from one to two guineas per +annum. The congregation is of a highly respectable class, +and apparently matured and settled. The clergy consisting +of the Rev. John Light, M.A., and three curates, the Revs. +Messrs. Bathurst Coults, and Griffiths, are supported entirely +from pew-rents, and a weekly offertory, which produces between +500<i>l.</i> and 600<i>l.</i> a-year, meets all other +expenses. With regard to the service at All Saints it is +moderately High Church; in every part of it there is an imitation +of cathedral effects. There is a good choir, with surplices +of course. Twelve of the boys have a free literary and +musical education under one of the curates in what is termed the +Choir School, the efficiency of the choir being thus continuously +provided for. The singing is of a superior +order—lively and spirited—and sufficiently wide of +the Gregorian monotone. The <i>Te Deum</i> and <i>Jubilate +Deo</i> are sung as anthems with good effect. The Prayers +and Psalms are intoned, and the responses sung by the choir and +congregation. And in excess of what is sometimes witnessed +in High churches, the General Confession was intoned by the +priest, and responded by the choir and people in song; and the +Commandments were intoned by the Vicar himself. It may be +observed that the assistant curate knelt with his back to the +congregation, whilst the Vicar intoned the Commandments. At +the name of Jesus in every place the minister and people +bow. A more striking illustration of the inconvenience of +this carried to excess could not be witnessed than in the singing +of one of the hymns. It was Hymn 314 in the Appendix to +“Hymns Ancient and Modern,” “When morning gilds +the sky,” &c. There are eight verses of six short +lines each, and in every third line the sacred name +occurs—that is sixteen times in the course of the +hymn. And the hymn being quickly sung, the head was kept in +almost constant motion. The Nicene Creed was also +sung. Then followed the sermon. The Vicar, ascending +the pulpit and facing the congregation, whilst yet standing, +pronounces, “To God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;” +and at once gives out his text. It was a brief address of +fifteen minutes, delivered without book or note. High +Churchism pretty much sets on one side the old-established Gospel +and Apostolic institution of “preaching the +Word.” In the present instance, here was a minister +of very considerable natural and acquired ability, which all who +know him must allow places him far above mediocrity; there was a +magnificent text of Scripture to discourse upon, “For our +conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the +Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (3 Phil. xx. 1.) It +would have been refreshing had there been time for this Scripture +to have received a more adequate illustration from the lips of +Mr. Light. But there are two full services every day, four +on every Sunday and on festivals. Two administrations of +the Holy Communion on Song Sunday and Festival; three sermons +every Sunday, the brevity of which is justified at All Saints +upon the principle, “That as God’s house is a house +of prayer, and not merely a house of preaching, the service +should be put before sermons.” But may not this +notion be carried too far? What is the relation between +<i>preaching the Gospel</i> and a proper devout performance of +general Christian service, implied in true conversion and +progress in spiritual life? We are not advocates for long +sermons, but it appears to us to abbreviate them as some are +doing is calculated to impair or defeat the higher spiritual +objects of public worship.</p> +<h3><a name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>THE +CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Church of St. John the Baptist +is a temporary iron structure, and, like most other buildings of +the sort, offers no point for architectural notice. It is, +however, very good of its kind, and is, externally—as seen +in the comparatively vacant part of the new Holland-road in which +its stands—more picturesque than some others we have had to +review. But the approaches to it are at present quite +unformed, and when autumn and winter returns—unless +something be done—the state of the road can scarcely be +expected to help the congregation. We are glad, however, to +hear that road improvement is in immediate contemplation. +The interior is fitted with plain benches, and the temporary +chancel neatly arranged, with a slight tendency to +ornament. The church was at first rented from the builder, +but has since been purchased. It has sittings for about 900 +persons, of which one half from east to west are free. Of +the other half a proportion only are at present let, at rentals +varying from 1<i>l.</i> 1s. 0d. to 30s. per annum; so that a +great majority of the congregation appear to avail themselves of +the free seats. The church was opened in February, 1869, +being planted in and intended to form a sub division in the +ecclesiastical division of St. Barnabas, Kensington. The +Rev. George Booker is incumbent and vicar designate. The +rev. gentleman is at present without assistance in the services, +except on Sunday evenings, when the Rev. Dr. Cosmo R. Gordon, +minister of St. Mary’s, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and +head-master of the Notting-hill Collegiate School, is +lecturer. In consequence of this arrangement, the Sunday +evening lectures at this church are highly appreciated, Dr. +Gordon being a talented and an esteemed preacher. The Rev. +G. Booker, we believe, has set before him in the +services—“To realise the spirit of the Prayer-book +<i>as it is</i>, and not as any extreme party, High or Low, would +wish it to be.” There is, however, nothing in the +general service but what is reconcilable with High Churchism, +although it does not appear to be intended. Unisonal +chanting has been introduced within the last few weeks, on +account of its greater volume of sound, the acoustic qualities of +the church being very indifferent; but partly, also, from the +difficulty felt in this as other churches in keeping together a +complete double choir for antiphonal singing, where the services +of the lay-clerks are voluntary. There is, however, a great +preponderance of chanting in monotone, and this, whilst the +minister intones his parts in the service, gives to the whole the +impress of High Church service. There is a four-part +surpliced choir of considerable efficiency, and one is apt to +think it might appear to greater advantage in another style of +singing. But the Rev. Mr. Booker is personally a minister +of an earnest, evangelical type. His reading of the +Scriptures is deliberate and most appropriate in tone and manner, +and his sermon is by no means stultified in deference to the +other parts of the service. This is a great merit. +The sermon we had the privilege of hearing was founded on Luke +xvi. 9: “And I say unto you make to yourselves friends of +the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail they may receive +you into everlasting habitations.” There was a very +clear exposition of the parable of the unjust steward, and the +right use as against the abuse of riches was cogently put, with a +due amount of illustration and enforcement. We do not +remember to have listened to a more instructive, practical, and +useful treatment of this somewhat delicate subject.</p> +<p>The maintenance of the clergy, church expenses, interest on +purchase money, &c., are objects to which the proceeds of the +pew-rents and weekly offertory are devoted. The former +source of income is at present limited and undeveloped. The +offertory, up to this time, averages about 330<i>l.</i> per +annum.</p> +<p>There is a very excellent middle-class school in connection +with this church, conducted by Mr. Studdy, a B.A. of the London +University. In this school the boys of the choir are +amongst the pupils and have their education free.</p> +<h3>THE CARMELITE CHURCH, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Carmelite Church in Church +street, Kensington, is built of plain brick and stone and covered +with slate, and though plainly treated and of simple and almost +severe design, is nevertheless a good specimen of modern early +English church-building. The east front (the church stands +east and west) is the principal feature externally. It +contains a fine rose window and double entrance doors; those +doors open into a lobby to the right and left. The inside +is certainly very good, and reminds one a great deal of the style +of the Pro-Cathedral, but slightly more decorated and ornate, +though not so large. It has a fine effect of height, and +the roofs are handsomely decorated—between the rafters +having gold stars on a blue ground. The plan of the church +is simple; a nave and aisles, and the west end is treated as an +apse, in which stands the high altar, very fine and richly +decorated, with crocheted canopy, pinnacles, and niches. +The nave arcade requires to be finished, and the plaster arches +present a very <a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +42</span>poor effect. It is to be regretted that such a +substitute has been employed. The church has a number of +chapels, altars, confessional boxes, &c., usually found in +Roman Catholic churches. The floors of passages are paved +with tiles, and the nave is occupied with simple pewing. +The pulpit is very plain, almost ugly. Some good stained +glass fills the windows of the apse and some of the aisle +windows, but we do not admire the red glass of the +clerestory.</p> +<p>The Church of the Carmelite Fathers was opened six years ago, +having been erected at a cost of 5,000<i>l.</i>, after the design +of Mr. Pugin, architect, of Ramsgate, by Mr. Smith, builder, of +the same town. The organ, which is a very splendid +instrument, built by Cavaille and Co., of Paris, and which is +equally remarkable for its soft and powerful tones, cost +2,000<i>l.</i> The altars, furniture, confessionals, +&c., cost about 3,000<i>l.</i> more, so that there is here +represented an outlay of at least 10,000<i>l.</i></p> +<p>The fathers, who occupy the monastery adjoining, and serve the +church only—having no parish work—are at present five +in number. The prior is the Rev. Stanislaus Viney; and the +second and following priests are, Signors Lignori, Eschewiria, +Felix Rizzo, Hillarion Berger, and Edmund Sharples—four +Italians and one Englishman. There are services every hour +from seven <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> to eleven; and on +Sundays vespers at half past three <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> Sermon and benediction, high-mass +at eleven <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> There are two +confraternities—that of St. Peter and the +Arch-confraternity of Thanksgiving. In connexion with the +first was established in 1863, at the invitation of Cardinal +Wiseman, “nocturnal adoration” of the +sacrament. Each active member—who can only be a male +person—has to watch once a-month one hour at night—a +bed being provided for him in the monastery the remainder of the +night. Fourteen members of this confraternity are summoned +for every Wednesday, and attend at ten <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, the “Service of +Exposition” and prayers, after which all but two retire to +the dormitory. These two then commence the “Adoration +of the Sacrament.” Ladies are admitted as honorary +members only, and their privileges are to partake with the others +of the “merit of the adoration,” to be allowed to +“forward their intentions to be prayed for,” and to +pay a subscription of 2s. 6d. annually.</p> +<p>“The Arch-confraternity of Thanksgiving” has for +its special objects to render thanks for gifts, and above all for +the “gift of God—the Eucharist.” +“To make up for the frightful ingratitude of the greater +number of men.” For all benefits, but especially for +Jesus, “Who is really present on our altars in the Divine +Eucharist as pontiff and victim. For the Eucharist is not +only the gift of God to men, but the sacrifice of men offered to +God.” The sole obligation of the brothers and sisters +is to “recite every day as a thanksgiving for all men, +three <i>Our Fathers</i>, three <i>Hail Marys</i>, and <i>three +Glorias</i>.” The rewards promised to this +confraternity are <i>special plenary indulgences</i>—</p> +<p>1. <i>On the</i> “<i>usual conditions</i>, <i>on +the day aggregation</i>.”</p> +<p>2. <i>At the point of death</i>.</p> +<p>3. <i>On the second Thursday of each month</i>.</p> +<p>4. On the Thursday of <i>Corpus Christi</i>.</p> +<p>5. On the 8th of September, the feast of the +“Immaculate Conception.”</p> +<p>6. One of seven years and seven quarantains; whenever an +hour of adoration is made before the sacrament.</p> +<p>7. One of 300 days attaching to the reciting of three +“Our Fathers,” three “Hail Marys,” and +three “Glorias.” All these indulgences are +further declared to be “applicable to souls in +Purgatory,” and subjects of them are exhorted to use prayer +especially for this object. All this is enforced by the +following reflection: “Association tends rather to pay our +debts to heaven than to acquire new personal gifts. Would +not this end be sooner attained by placing in the merciful hands +of the Virgin the suffrages obtained by the exercise of our +gratitude, so that she may dispose of them as she pleases in +favour of the poor suffering souls who are still waiting for +their deliverance from the <i>expiatory</i> flames? Heaven +would thus be opened for the souls whom Mary loves +best.”</p> +<p>Such is Popery, in the very heart of West London! The +church is capable of holding about 800 people; but the +congregation is usually not full. There is no preacher of +any note, but the English priest, E. Sharples, is represented to +be the best and most acceptable. There are three side +altars on each side of the church, besides the High Altar, and an +equal number of confessionals, and the church is open all the +day. A quiet midweek afternoon was the occasion of our +visit. It was very warm; and here, at this confessional or +altar and the other, was a lady or a girl, bending in +silence.</p> +<h3>THE TABERNACLE, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Kensington Tabernacle</span>, in +Horton-street, close to the High-street, is a very neat-looking +modernised building, so far at least as its west front goes; all +has been done for it that stucco can do, and its entrance arcade +gives to it an uncommon appearance, unlike the usual arrangements +applied to chapels.</p> +<p>The interior, with its large encircling gallery, good pulpit, +harmonium, nice pewing, make up a very satisfactory whole; but +the great charm of the interior consists in the quiet, excellent +taste displayed in the coloured decoration and painting, very +much to be admired, and worthy of imitation, and seeming to tell +its own tale of <a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +43</span>the simplicity and the faith of the congregation that +worship there.</p> +<p>The history of Hornton street Chapel has been various and +chequered. The church connected with it has been +successively Presbyterian, Congregational, and Baptist. The +old Presbyterian cause in Kensington began to shape itself about +the year 1790, when the few united together met in a plain +barn-like building at a place called South-end, at the end of St. +James’s-street, leading out of Kensington-square. The +most remarkable part of the church’s history here was that +it was right in the teeth of the noted local infidel of that day, +Tom Taylor, who held near the same spot what he called his +“Hell-fire Club,” in which, with his rough disciples, +he used to meet, and rave against religion and society. +From hence, we believe, the corner is vulgarly known by the awful +nomenclature of “Hell-fire-corner.” From this +scene the church removed to Hornton-street in 1793. Three +of the members had joined their means and influence to procure +this more eligible meeting-house. They were a Mr. Gray, a +nurseryman, Mr. Broadwood, the founder of the great pianoforte +firm, and Mr. Foreacre, the then coachman of King George +III. Of these three worthies it is told that they built the +chapel by bond-deeds, the amount of responsibility being equally +divided among them. Some time after the opening there +remained still due to each of them 600<i>l.</i>, 1,800<i>l</i>. +in all; and at a certain meeting of the deacons, one of them took +up the poker from the grate and, winding his bond round the end +of it, thrust it into the fire, the other two immediately +following his example. By this noble act the chapel was +freed from debt, there remaining only a ground-rent of 8<i>l.</i> +8s. per annum. It is also related that the royal coachman +about this time dropped a handful of tracts into the coach one +day, when about to take out his royal master, and the King, who +it appears perused the tracts diligently, afterwards commanded +his devout servant to get him a further supply. The Rev. +Dr. Lake was the first minister, in whose time members of the +Royal Family from Kensington Palace rented a pew in the +chapel. He was succeeded in the pastorate by the Revs. John +Clayton, Dr. Liefchild, Dr. Vaughn, and Dr. Stoughton, now of +Allen-street Chapel, our account of which we should recommend to +be read in connexion with this. In the time of the latter +pastorate, Hornton-street Tabernacle became the parent of two +other chapels—viz., Horbury and Allen-street, to the latter +of which Dr. Stoughton attached himself with his church. +The chapel was then closed for a considerable time, and used only +as an appendage to Allen-street for school accommodation, +&c. There was, however, a division of opinion in the +matter, a few of the old members, contending that the chapel +should still have been used for its original purpose, and that +there was in the town abundant room for a second cause. To +this Dr. Stoughton himself was decidedly opposed, and +consequently it remained closed until it had been purchased by +the Metropolitan Railway Company, who, needing the schools in the +rear for the progress of their works, were compelled to take the +whole property. 4,000<i>l.</i> was thus obtained, with +which Dr. Stoughton was enabled to build his present superior +schools in Allen-street. In the meantime, Mr. Orchard and a +few others of the Baptist persuasion, had met in an office, now +an auction and estate agency, adjoining the old chapel, and +engaged the Rev. R. J. Mesquitta, of Mr. Spurgeon’s +College, as pastor. That minister’s success was so +great that they were shortly obliged to adjourn to the Avenue +Assembly Rooms. Whilst here, the railway company put the +old chapel into the market to be let. The church availed +itself of the opportunity and returned to it, undertaking it at +an annual rental of 115<i>l.</i> This was about a year and +a half ago. 600<i>l.</i> was required to put it in order, +build galleries, &c., which was promptly promised by members +of the congregation. One would have thought that this was +the beginning of better days; but, alas! through some evil +fortune, it was the beginning of a new and distressing +decline. In the settlement of the property now acquired in +the chapel, the four persons who had transacted the business, it +appears, did it all in their own names, without any legal +reference to the church for which they were the intended +trustees. This certainly was an error, from which one +subsequently, when he discovered the effect, was honourably +anxious to disentangle himself. The other three, however, +held out against the remonstrances of the minister, Mr. Orchard, +and others, who had made themselves responsible for the money to +those whom they had looked upon as trustees. The natural +ultimate consequence was, that the minister left in the midst of +his usefulness, the members and congregation quitted their seats, +and the church became again a wreck. To this state of +things the present pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hawes, succeeded a short +time since. He appears to be a minister of great +earnestness of purpose. He is a good Evangelical preacher, +and delivers himself mainly extempore, with considerable power +and unction, and it can only be hoped that he will succeed in +repairing the breaches of Zion, and building up this church +anew. There are about 700 seats, 300 of which—all the +galleries—are free. There is a small Sunday-school, +having about 60 scholars of both sexes.</p> +<h3><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>PALACE +GARDEN CHAPEL, KENSINGTON.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Close</span> to the Mall and the +High-street, Notting-hill, is a large, gloomy-looking structure +of the Classical School, not that it is by any means a good +example of classical work; it is heavy and badly proportioned as +regards its stucco-pediment cornice and columns, the latter +engaged, and the spaces bricked in and filled with window and +doors with stucco dressings. The interior we are not able +to report upon, the chapel being without a congregation.</p> +<p>This chapel was built nine years ago by Mr. Robert Offord, of +Kensington, for his brother, the Rev. John Offord, then of +Plymouth. It appears to have been originally designed for a +Baptist Chapel, being provided with a baptistry; but the Rev. Mr. +Offord from the first gathered around him Christian people of all +denominations, and formed what may be termed an open union +church. Of this he was the minister about seven years, and +won himself high esteem with all who could appreciate Christian +learning and excellence of character. He was not in the +general sense popular as a preacher, but drew around him a goodly +number of admiring friends, and the congregation prospered. +The chapel contains accommodation for 1,000 persons, and the +average congregation in his time was between 600 and 700. +The chapel, however, was the private property of Mr. Robert +Offord, and it had never been settled upon trust for the benefit +of the church, but had, in fact, been hired by the congregation +of the owner, at a rental of 200<i>l.</i> a-year. The +consequence was that, when the owner died, about two years ago, +some confusion ensued in the affairs of the church. The +minister and his friends, not feeling equal to the task of +undertaking a chapel in no degree their own, were inaugurating +arrangements to remove to some other place, when, in the +providence of God, the minister himself—surviving his +brother but by a little time—was called away by +death. The chapel was then put into the market for sale, +and was bought for 5,500<i>l.</i> by the late Dr. Schwartz, of +well-known German Jewish origin, but converted to the Protestant +faith and ultimately a Presbyterian minister. As a +condition of concluding the purchase, the property was made +freehold, which must be a great advantage to all subsequent +owners. This was all in last year, and Dr. Schwartz entered +upon his labours, but only for a short time. Six months +after his commencement, and only six weeks after his formal +induction by the presbytery to the pastorate, he, too, was called +to his rest. And now, the chapel still having remained +private property, the prospects of the church became as clouded +and uncertain as ever. It was put again into the market by +the executors of Dr. Schwartz, in the interests of his widow and +family, and was brought to the hammer at the Mart, in +Tokenhouse-yard, on the 14th of June last. The matter had +now been taken in hand by the presbytery on behalf of the church, +and they instructed their solicitor, Mr. Lewis, to attend the +auction and bid for the church to the extent of +5,000<i>l.</i> He, however, found himself at the Mart, in +presence of a powerful competitor unknown to him, but who seemed +resolved to outbid him. He was induced to exceed his limit +by 225<i>l.</i>, but, being still pressed, declined to follow on +his own responsibility, and, accordingly, the chapel was knocked +down to the highest bidder, who turned out to be purchasing for +the Swedenborgians. Mr. Finney, a wealthy merchant of +Manchester, had made this body a present of 10,000<i>l.</i> for +the purpose of establishing a cause in Kensington. Hence +the sharp competition into which they entered for the edifice, +which was obtained by them for the sum of 5,000 guineas. It +is intended to build an organ, and make other improvements, and +in four or five weeks to open it as the place of assembling for +the “New Jerusalem Church,” or, in other words, the +Swedenborgians. None appear to regret more than the friends +of the Presbyterian cause themselves the passing entirely away +from them, and from the use of Orthodox Protestant Christianity, +of this well-situated and commodious structure. They would +have given, and on the next day one of them offered a very +considerable premium to the purchasers to relinquish their +bargain; but, although remarking that had they known it was the +congregation of the chapel itself bidding against them they would +not have persevered, they nevertheless held to their +purchase. The Congregational Church is at present meeting +in the Mall Hall, where they hold Divine Service every Sunday, +and are making inquiry for an eligible site, on which, as soon as +secured, they are prepared at once to build.</p> +<h3>ST. CLEMENT’S CHURCH, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Clement’s</span>, Notting-hill, +situated close to the Lancaster-road and the Potteries, is a very +noticeable structure—as simple, indeed, as it is possible +to be, yet treated with much good feeling and power. The +style is early English in a rather modest form, plain lancets and +gables, without decoration or carving. As a faithful +example of the style, however, it is worthy of notice; and it may +be observed that a permanent structure, plainly and simply, and +<a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 45</span>therefore +cheaply treated, is at all times preferable to temporary iron +buildings, often unworthy to be called churches, but which far +too often are allowed to be anything but temporary. The +nave and chancel and aisles have an unbroken line of roof and +ridge, save that at their intersection a small spire or +bell-turret rises square on plan, and like the roof is covered +with slate. The gables and facials add importance to the +structure.</p> +<p>The building is of yellow brick with red bands and stone +dressings, and the construction of the roof might be noted as +being peculiarly light and elegant in appearance. Mr. St. +Aubyn was the architect, and was certainly successful in +producing a building well adapted for hearing and seeing the +officiating clergy. The ventilation is excellent. The +nave and aisles are separated by wooden posts or iron columns +supporting the roofs, taking the place of the ordinary +arcades. The furniture of the church is in keeping with its +general character, and the floors are paved with tiles. The +cost of the whole was 5,500<i>l.</i> There is a very +sweet-toned organ by Holdich, but we are sorry to learn it is not +the property of the church, but hired. As, however, it can +be acquired for the sum of 300<i>l.</i>, or probably something +less, we hope it will not be long before the congregation will +own it. It is ably played by Mr. F. K. Blanch, who is +assisted in the musical parts of the service by a very efficient +surpliced choir. The cast of the service generally is +semi-Anglican; the prayers are read and nothing is <i>intoned</i> +by the clergy; but all the responses are sung by the choir and +the congregation. The worship appears carefully guarded +against the peculiarities of High Churchism, without falling into +the other extreme, and we must confess the performance struck us +as being hearty and devout, as it regarded both the clergy and +the congregation. The present ministers are the Rev. Arthur +Dalgarno Robinson, M.A., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, vicar, the +Rev. E. J. Venning, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, and the +Rev. Herbert Rowsell, M.A., of St. John’s College, +Cambridge, curates. We had the pleasure of hearing the Rev. +Vicar himself, who, in the absence of his curates taking their +holiday, had all the duty to himself. Mr. Robinson has a +clear and pleasant voice, distinctly heard in every part of the +church. He reads with remarkable propriety and effect, a +matter of first importance in a clergyman. In the sermon, +which was read, and founded on Deut. iv. 22, referring to the +last words of the great Jewish lawgiver, and to his not being +permitted to cross over into the land of promise, but to die in +that land, the preacher gave evidence of careful study, +imaginative powers, and deep feeling. The remarks were +highly instructive, and specially consolatory to the Christian +chastened in tribulation and disappointed of his earthly +hopes. The Rev. A. D. Robinson has been incumbent from the +foundation of the church, which was opened for Divine Service and +consecrated by the Lord Archbishop of Armagh on Tuesday, the 7th +May, 1867. It was erected for a district, perhaps the +poorest in all the Western districts, and containing a population +according to the recent census of 20,000. It supplies 900 +sittings, the whole of which are free, and has an average +congregation of from 600 to 700. It is noteworthy that, +though in the midst of so poor a neighbourhood as the Potteries +and vicinity, the congregation in the morning does not by any +means appear of the poorer order, but in the evening many of the +poor are to be seen enjoying the services. The Argyle +family, and others from the wealthier parts of the parish of +Kensington, have taken a warm interest in the St. Clement’s +cause with regard to the peculiar population around. But +that people have not yet shown great appreciation of these +Christian efforts. Yet a good work is doing. There is +the church, in which we are glad to believe the Gospel is +preached, and into which any poor man can freely enter. +There is a mission-woman working about among the poorest, both in +body and soul; but she sadly needs a co-labourer in this useful +department of Christian work. There are, too, we are +pleased to add, very capital day and Sunday-schools, where about +700 of the children of the poor are receiving a sound religious +and elementary education for the modest fees of 3d. and 2d. per +week. There is, therefore, the hope that St. +Clement’s will be, more and more, the centre of Christian +civilisation and religious influence to that needy neighbourhood +which it was originally intended to be. We heartily wish +that the Rev. Mr. Robinson could obtain what the particular work +in which he has embarked really deserves and demands—viz., +a larger amount of general recognition and support from the +outside public. As the case now stands, he must often look +around him and say, “Truly the harvest is great, but the +labourers are few.” There is a small endowment on the +church, to which the proceeds of a weekly offertory are +added. As both sources of income, however, are at present +small, they can barely suffice to keep up the work even to its +present standard. We are assured that a little more +material support would be highly acceptable and useful, well +bestowed, and gratefully felt and acknowledged at St. +Clement’s.</p> +<h3><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +46</span>HORBURY CHAPEL</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Stands</span> at the fork of two +roads—the Kensington-park-road and Ladbroke-road—and +looks effective and well, which is partly owing to its open +position, and partly to the grey and sombre appearance of the +stone of which it is built, and rendered darker, too, by the +effect of London atmosphere and a little age. The detail is +not very good. The south front is the principal feature, +composed of a high-pitched gable and two square flanking towers +and dwarf tile spires. The towers are relieved with +windows, simple arcade work, weather bands and strings, and +oversailing and corbelled courses, and each has a gallery +entrance. The gable has a terminal with a large window of +fair design, and divided into four lights. The chief +entrance to the chapel is also in this front, approached by +steps. The interior is simple—roofed in one span with +light open timbers, and ribs on stone corbels. Galleries on +iron columns surround three sides of the chapel, parts of which +in the transepts are set apart for the schools, a large pulpit +and railed platform, with table and stalls, is at the north end, +and the body of the chapel is filled with close pews.</p> +<p>The Horbury Chapel and congregation date from the year 1849; +and the 21st year of their existence was celebrated in 1870 by +the erection of side galleries and by other improvements, at a +cost of about 950<i>l.</i> Horbury Chapel enterprise was an +off-shoot from Hornton-street Congregational Church, under the +care of the Rev. Dr. Stoughton. The Rev. W. Roberts, B.A., +is the minister, and enjoys the reputation of an able and +judicious pastor of his flock. There is accommodation for +nearly 1,000 worshippers, and the congregation averages from 550 +to 650. The pew-rents yield about 500<i>l.</i> per annum, +and the weekly offerings 120<i>l.</i> There are excellent +day-schools attached, with 400 children on the books, and an +attendance of 300; also a Sunday-school, with an attendance of +about 200. There is an out-school, too, in Notting-dale, +with 115 under instruction and a ragged-school in Ernest-street, +which is eminently useful in collecting together a class of +children who would not otherwise be cared for. 100 are in +attendance at the infant day-school, and 50 at the night school, +and there are 50 in a Sunday-night school. There is a penny +bank established in connection with the ragged-school, and last +year there were deposits to the amount of 278<i>l.</i> 8s. +10d. At a mothers’ meeting there are usually in +attendance thirty persons. Following the example of the +parent congregational church in Hornton-street, the Horbury is +aggressive in its labours. The increasing population about +Acton has attracted its attention. A new chapel is built +there, and it is hoped that a large congregation will shortly be +gathered into it. There is a tract society—the useful +labours of which deserve notice; besides which and its other home +enterprises the Horbury congregation contributes sums of various +amount to the London City Mission, the British Missions, the +Foreign Sailors’ Society, the London Missionary Society, +and the Evangelisation of the Jews Society. There is much +that is gratifying about the unobtrusive Christian character and +efforts of this church, for which every Christian mind must pray +them “God speed.”</p> +<p>The services are: Lord’s-day, 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 3 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> +(Young Women’s Bible-class), and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> Holy Communion, first Sunday in +the month, after the morning service, and on the third Sunday, +after the evening service. Wednesday evening at 7, an +expository lecture, followed by a Psalmody-class, to practise +anthems and tunes. Prayer and church meetings at stated +times. There are six deacons, Messrs. Coats, Cullingford, +Holt, E. Nash, Starkey (Mrs. S.), and Walton.</p> +<h3>DENBIGH ROAD WESLEYAN CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Wesleyan Chapel situate in the +Denbigh-road, Notting-hill, is the principal chapel of what is +marked on the Methodist Conference plan as the <i>Bayswater +Circuit</i>. It was built in the year 1858, after the +designs of W. W. Pocock, Esq., architect, and is a fair specimen +of the Grecian style. In no religious body do tastes as to +ecclesiastical architecture vary more than among the +Wesleyans. Some prefer the Gothic of the thirteenth +century, others the decorated Gothic of the fourteenth. +Some adopt the perpendicular of a still later date, whilst others +hold to the Grecian, which was the style in which Mr. Wesley +himself built. The Wesleyans of Bayswater have followed the +original Connexional pattern, but have erected a very neat +edifice, which would be more effective as an ornament to the +neighbourhood but that its front falls slightly behind the line +of houses amidst which it stands, and cannot be seen except in +close proximity. The interior arrangement is noticeable for +its combined utility and elegance. The seats on the +ground-floor are arranged in the amphitheatre style, and all made +to converge to the pulpit, so that every hearer directly faces +the preacher, and the latter has the most perfect command of all +his audience. There are galleries on three sides, and in +the west gallery is a good organ with ornamental pipes, played by +Mr. <a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +47</span>Brocklehurst, and a numerous choir of young persons of +both sexes, whose singing is lively and animating, the tunes +being such as the congregation can join in, and which it does +with remarkable freedom and spirit. The chapel has recently +been repainted, and decorated very tastefully by Mr. Hearne of +London, at a cost of 450<i>l.</i> The occasion of our +visit, Sunday, September 10, 1871, was also the occasion of the +re-opening after a closing of five weeks for this purpose. +The work is done in white and gold, and the gilt on the columns, +gallery fronts, and pulpit, which is a wide platform structure, +is ample, and, together with the light blue and white and buff of +the ceiling, contributes to make up one of the prettiest and most +effective interiors we have yet seen. The original cost of +the chapel was 4,500<i>l.</i>, and it affords accommodation for +950 persons, 300 of the sittings being free. After retiring +from their former chapel in Queen’s-road, and securing the +present site, the Wesleyans, resolved not to build until secure +of funds to complete the work undertaken, first worshipped in a +large room. Next, proceeding by degrees, they erected their +walls and put the roof on, and used the body of the chapel in an +unfinished state, and finally they built their galleries, and +completed the furniture, both of the chapel and schoolroom; and, +what is most gratifying to add, possessed themselves of their +beautiful sanctuary in its completeness entirely free from +debt. The Rev. W. M. Punshon, M.A., now President of the +Canadian Conference, was the first resident minister appointed to +take charge of this new and important enterprise. Under his +popular ministry the congregation rapidly increased and reached +its full dimensions, which it retained to the end of the three +years itinerant term, every sitting being let and occupied, and +the aisles also generally being crowded. The Revs. J. +Rattenbury, George Maunder, J. D. Brocklehurst, who followed Mr. +Punshon in succession, were also highly popular and useful +ministers, so that the Denbigh-road congregation has enjoyed all +the influence and advantage that Methodism could supply, for +raising up and consolidating a prosperous church.</p> +<p>The able ministry with which it has been uniformly supplied is +well maintained in the present appointments, if we may judge from +our own hearing. The Rev. T. M. Albrighton, the +superintendent minister of the circuit, and especially attached +by residence to that chapel, occupied the pulpit; and after an +impressive reading of the Church prayers, as used by the +Wesleyans at the morning service, preached an eloquent and +powerful discourse founded on Zech. vi. 12 and 13, “And +speak unto him saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying, +Behold the man whose name is the Branch; and he shall grow up out +of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord; even he +shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory +and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest +upon his throne, and the counsel of truth shall be between them +both.” This fine text of Scripture was treated in a +manner indicative of its importance. The sermon was +delivered extempore, but well studied, and, we should say, +previously thought out to the last sentence. The discourse +was replete with theological intelligence, and threw much +Evangelical light upon the text with which it had to do. It +was delivered too, with feeling, and evident intention of doing +good; but this paramount purpose, kept steadily in view, did not, +as is too often the case, disturb in any degree the order, +method, and effect of the sermon as such. If a sermon to be +really good should have method, then this sermon was quite an +example. There was a suitable introduction, the divisions +naturally rose out of the words of the text, and the peroration, +delivered with deep feeling, brought it to a close, the whole +occupying three-quarters of an hour. The colleagues of Mr. +Albrighton upon the Bayswater Circuit are the Revs. J. S. Banks +and Nehemiah Curnock, who interchange pulpits with him and each +other, but are more particularly attached respectively to the +congregations worshipping in the Warwick-gardens and Bassin-park +Chapels.</p> +<p>There is a present membership of 430—<i>i.e.</i>, +recognised members of the Wesleyan body, by virtue of meeting in +class—attached to the Denbigh-road Chapel. Every +department of Christian work appears to be in fair +activity. There is a good Sunday-school, having 450 +children under religious instruction. This school has an +important feature in a young men’s Bible-class, numbering +about 100, under the conductorship of Mr. Walter Heal. From +this fact it is not difficult to conjecture the cause of the +presence of so many young men in the congregation as are to be +seen on the Sunday. There is also a Young Men’s +Mutual Improvement Society in full operation during the winter +months. Associations for visiting the sick, ministering to +the destitute, distributing tracts, &c., afford occupation to +all willing to work; and these, we are informed, are not few at +Denbigh-road. The general efforts through the year in aid +of foreign missions are supplemented by the activity of a +“Juvenile Missionary Association,” who use their +youthful influence as occasion offers to advance the great work +of the world’s conversion with pleasing results.</p> +<h3><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 48</span>THE +WESTBOURNE GROVE CHAPEL.</h3> +<p>A <span class="smcap">somewhat</span> heavy-looking, but +substantial structure in the main-thoroughfare attracts the +attention of every passer-by at the west-end of Westbourne-grove, +occupying also the corner of the Ledbury-road, where it +intersects the Grove. It was intended to be in early +English style, and so we presume it must be considered, although +it does not strike one as realising the ideal in a very +impressive degree. It is, however, slightly decorated, and +has something of the details of early work. It is solidly +built of Kentish rag, with Bath-stone facings, having two +flanking towers, surmounted with stone spires. In addition +to the principal entrance, over a flight of steps in the front, +these towers afford access to the galleries, to which, also, +there are two other approaches from without, at the north end of +the chapel, one on each side. This is the largest chapel we +have yet seen in West London; and the space within is economised +to the utmost extent by gallery accommodation, there being double +galleries on three sides, two having nine rows of seats. +These, with the pewing completely covering the ground floor, give +accommodation for 2,000 persons. The great feature of the +interior is massiveness, which is only slightly relieved by an +ornamental panelling on the gallery fronts, and a modern platform +pulpit. When pretty well filled, as we saw it on the +morning of Sunday, the 17th of September, 1871, the place has an +imposing effect. On the north side, behind the pulpit, +there is an apse, with an organ and a few singers, answering well +the purpose of leading the large congregation, which joins +heartily in the musical parts of the service. There are +also behind the chapel proper, six spacious rooms for +Bible-classes, committees, &c., which is a noticeable +feature, affording great facility to the several societies +attached.</p> +<p>The Baptist Church now worshipping at this chapel was +originally formed at a small chapel or meeting-place in +Silver-street, Kensington Gravel-pits, in the year 1823. +Its first settled pastor was the Rev. W. Southwood, who laboured +with it from 1826 to 1830. The Rev. John Broad succeeded in +1831, who occupied the post for ten years; and was followed by +the Rev. John Berg in 1841, the Rev. F. Wills in 1843, and by the +Rev. W. G. Lewis, the present pastor, in 1847. Mr. Lewis +preached his first sermon April 11 in that year, and was formally +ordained in the following September. The progress made +through these years—and especially under the latter +pastorate—is sufficiently told by the fact that the first +list of members appearing in the church book in 1826 included +only seventeen names, whilst the list in December of last year +(1870), numbered as many as 725. The small chapel in +Silver-street becoming too strait for the growing +cause—after considerable research—the prominent and +important site of the present chapel was obtained and built upon +in 1853, at an entire original cost of 5,500<i>l.</i> Since +then galleries were added in 1859, at a cost of 579<i>l.</i>, and +in 1866 a considerable enlargement took place, at a further grand +outlay of 5,895<i>l.</i>, so that the chapel as it now stands +represents an expenditure of about 12,000<i>l.</i> Thus, +apparently by a course of uninterrupted progress, within the last +quarter of a century has grown up a very large and powerful +church, which takes rank with the first of West London churches +for numbers, for wealth, for influence, and for its multifarious +Christian labours. There are few finer instances of the +effect of the Voluntary principle in religion to be found, +whether we look for them in the Established Church or in +Nonconformity. In the year 1870, 668<i>l.</i> 5s. 6d. was +received for pew-rents, and the weekly offerings amounted to +198<i>l.</i> 16s.; collections at the Lord’s Supper, +106<i>l.</i> 2s. 8d. There are large Sunday-schools, with +632 scholars of both sexes and all ages, and a capital school +library of 500 volumes, to which 371 of the scholars +subscribe. Towards the expenses of the school the church +contributed 32<i>l.</i> 2s. 5d., and from this and its other +sources of income, after paying its expenses, the school +contributed 53<i>l.</i> 6s. 7d. to the Baptist Missionary +Society, in addition to 100 dresses which were made and sent to a +mission station in Western Africa. An “Evangelical +Mission,” the object being tract distribution, sick +visitation, &c., obtained from the congregation to assist its +work 24<i>l.</i> 3s.; the London City Mission, 88<i>l.</i>; +Baptist Missionary Society, 165<i>l.</i> 8s. 2d.; a Soup Kitchen, +coals and bread, 23<i>l.</i> 10s.; Children’s Friend +Society, 10<i>l.</i> 5s. 4d.; Maternity Society, 4<i>l.</i> 1s. +10d.; a “Ladies’ Working Society” produced +27<i>l.</i> 9s. 7d.; a “Mother’s Meeting,” by +which nearly 200 poor women were assisted in providing clothes +for themselves and families, 115<i>l.</i>; and a “Young +Men’s Mutual Improvement Society” raised 84<i>l.</i> +2s. 7d. Besides all these, and independently of them, the +congregation contributed 524<i>l.</i> 5s. 1d. towards the +reduction of a debt still remaining upon the chapel, the whole +representing an income and an appropriation of 2,469<i>l.</i> +19s. 11d. In connexion with the Children’s Friend +Society there is a penny-bank, which received in the year +224<i>l.</i> 3s. 8d. deposits. It must be evident to all, +that great and sustained effort, and some self-denial in the +moving spirits of these various operations, can alone account for +such results. The Rev. W. G. Lewis might well be +congratulated upon the health and energy he has been enabled to +bring to bear on this work, and upon the most efficient aid he +has found ready to his hands in the numerous and zealous church +and congregation over which he presides. As to the general +character of his pastorate and ministry, their abundant +acceptableness and usefulness are sufficiently manifest from +their duration, and from the present aspect of affairs at +Westbourne-grove. Twenty-five years’ <a +name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 49</span>continuous +ministry to the same church, and things all round still healthy, +vigorous, and flourishing, places a minister almost beyond +criticism, if any were disposed to indulge it. Mr. Lewis +appears to be an earnest and affectionate pastor, and calculated +to govern a church without destroying it, and to its building up +in the unity of faith and love. He is undoubtedly an able +and gifted minister of the New Testament, discerning the +spiritual requirements of his charge, and skilful in meeting them +by bringing out of the treasury “things new and +old.” Speaking from our own observations and +information, the whole of his service, from beginning to end, is +religiously profitable and instructive in a very high +degree. Having a good voice, capable of elocutionary +effect, under the control of a well-furnished mind, his sermons +are refreshing in their originality of conception and their +terseness, yet completeness of expression and illustration, so +that the hearer, at the close, feels that he has neither had too +much or too little, but has been fed with intellectual and +spiritual food “convenient for him.” Mr. Lewis +is well known as Editor of the <i>Baptist Magazine</i>, which has +been for twelve years under his management. The subject of +discourse was Mary of Bethany and the alabaster box of ointment +(Matt. xxvi. 13). The force of the Divine love working in +the human heart, and illustrating the effects of the +Saviour’s love to the world, was appropriately set +forth. Its power, its freedom, its breadth, inventiveness +and self-sacrifice in devotion and doing good, were set out in +vivid contrast to the narrow bonds of worldly conventionality and +of a cold-hearted time serving religious profession. The +good work which Mary did against the Saviour’s burial was +symbolical of his own “good work” which he did by +giving himself for us. “Very costly, and embodying +all that he could give.” The hours and order of +service at this chapel are: Sundays, 7 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, prayer-meeting; 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>, public worship; afternoon: 3 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Bible classes; 6½ <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, public worship; 8 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, prayer-meeting. Monday evening +at 6, prayer-meeting for females only; 7, general +prayer-meeting. Baptism by immersion administered as +occasion arises. The Lord’s Supper on the evening of +the first Sabbath in each month at 8. Church meetings on +the Friday before the first Sunday in the month, at 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span></p> +<p>The deacons are Messrs. Fenn, W. B. Head, Rabbeth, W. Dearle, +J. R. Philips, G. Lindup. The city missionary attached is +Mr. J. Browne.</p> +<h3>THE FREE TABERNACLE, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> name of the “Free +Tabernacle” and Mr. Varley are indissolubly united in +Notting-hill. The Tabernacle is a very plain brick +structure, in Norland-square, or rather in St. +John’s-place, leading out of the square. It admits of +no architectural description; but on entering one is impressed +with the idea that it has been built with an object. It has +the appearance of a large hall, with a platform pulpit at one +end, and a choir gallery behind it. There is no other +gallery at present; but the ground floor is thoroughly pewed, and +the whole is capable of accommodating 1,000 persons, and, if +necessary, 1,200 could find a place. The original cost of +the building was 2,200<i>l.</i>, the responsibility of which was +entirely borne by the present minister and his father-in-law, Mr. +Pickworth, who undertook the work solely in the interests of the +spiritually destitute poor of the neighbourhood. Mr. +Varley, who was at the time and has ever since been engaged in +business, first began to preach nine years ago in the Potteries, +in the Notting-dale Schoolroom, where he speedily collected a +congregation from the poor people of that district, so large and +overcrowded that he was compelled to find another place. +This led to the building of the Tabernacle, and to one of the +most valuable voluntary religious efforts that we have yet had +the pleasure of recording. Upon this basis, at the present +time, an average congregation of 800 in the morning, and 1,000 in +the evening, assemble for public worship. Upon special +occasions the number is increased to 1,100 and 1,200, and it is +interesting to note the respect and affection with which Mr. +Varley is regarded by all this people. He has succeeded in +establishing an influence undoubtedly for good over a class not +to be founds in many of the congregations we have yet had under +review. It is notorious that, as a rule, our poor do not +attend our churches and chapels, but the “Tabernacle” +supplies an exception to the rule. In this case the +minister himself is an active tradesman, and appears to possess +that kind of talent which adapts him to the mind and +circumstances of the class to whom he ministers. Without +even the shadow of lowness or vulgarity Mr. Varley has a certain +colloquial style and manner which impart both pleasure and profit +to his hearers, while it wins and retains their respect. +His preaching is to a large extent expository, as on the morning +of Sunday, the 23rd of September, the text (Heb. viii. 6) was +illustrated by frequent references to other portions of +Scripture. There was a peculiarity which we have not +observed so fully carried out anywhere as here, a great +proportion of the congregation had their Bibles in their hands, +and regularly followed the preacher in his references with +manifest interest, very much after the manner of a Bible-class +following the teacher. They had evidently been well trained +to this, and did it as <a name="page50"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 50</span>from established habit. Mr. +Varley also expounds in the reading of the lessons, and in so +doing on this occasion denounced all assumption of a +<i>priesthood</i> by men, and the pretended sacrifice of the +Mass, as a sin against God and a complete contravention of the +Scriptures. The hymns used are entitled “Hymns of +Grace and Glory,” arranged especially for the service of +this congregation, and are sung to simple melodies in which all +can join. The singing is universal, lively, and devotional, +and appears to realise the great object of music in public +worship. The harmonium, however, it may be observed, is a +little too much heard. It is, perhaps, what some would term +noisy, and is too apt to drown instead of assist the +congregational voice. The church, which now numbers about +550 members, is Baptist by profession, but what maybe termed an +“open” Baptist Church, freely admitting Christian +people of all denominations to its communion. Amongst other +peculiarities at the Tabernacle there is a communion every Sunday +morning after the public service, except on the first Sunday in +the month, when it is after the evening service. It is the +only case in a Nonconforming place we have yet had to notice in +which there is a weekly celebration. Mr. Varley believes +this to be the Scriptural order; and from the large number that +tarry to that service it would appear that his people are one +with him in this belief. The public services are on Sundays +at eleven and half-past six; Monday evening prayer-meeting at +seven, and on Wednesday evening a sermon at seven. There is +a good Sunday-school attached, with about 500 children and a +staff of 30 teachers. The church derives all its financial +support from voluntary effort. Weekly offerings are taken +at the doors, and all the sittings are free. Up to the +present time, Mr. Varley’s labour has been gratuitously +bestowed. It is with some surprise we learn that he has +never yet received any earthly reward or testimonial whatever for +his valuable services. We do not know whether it would be +approved by Mr. Varley himself, but we would suggest that it is +one of the first duties of the church at the Tabernacle to set +their minister free from the concerns of worldly business, that +he might devote all his time to study and the discharge of his +pastoral duties. Having, under God, raised the church, he +surely is its natural and fitting pastor; and one cannot but +think that his separation to the work would prove a blessing to +that people. At present, his Sunday labour is supplemented +by that of a missionary (Mr. Ashdown), supported by the +congregation, who does much pastoral work through the week, +visiting the people and striving to keep alive their interest in +public worship. Although the present building is a large +place, it is thought not to be adequate in space to the demands; +and is, therefore, now about to be closed for some weeks, pending +important alterations. After these are effected there will +be an area of 74 ft. by 94, and galleries all around, affording +accommodation for over 2,000 people; and in addition to this +there will be several class-rooms, and one large room for general +service, calculated to hold 500 persons. It will easily be +conceived that in “Mr. Varley’s Tabernacle” (as +it is now commonly called) there must be a centre of powerful +influence in dealing with a great mass of people not reached by +other agencies, and which circumstances have caused to congregate +around it. The exterior will be greatly beautified by the +alterations—a view of which, by favour of the architects, +Messrs. Habershon and Pite, we are enabled to produce.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p48b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Mr. Varley’s Tabernacle, St. James’ Place, Notting +Hill, W." +title= +"Mr. Varley’s Tabernacle, St. James’ Place, Notting +Hill, W." +src="images/p48s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>THE CORNWALL ROAD BAPTIST CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> is situated near the point +where the Cornwall-road crosses the Ladbroke-grove-road, with a +low, single-arched looking front, approached by a flight of steps +from the footway, and inclining towards the latter road. It +is a wooden structure, but protected by a coating of lath, with +an outside covering of Portland cement; and when on the other +side the whole building is in view, it looks a long, dark, narrow +object, which would not be readily taken for a place of worship, +reminding one of a huge ironclad lying at anchor in a quiet +harbour. It may be explained that the shell was formerly a +part of an <i>annexe</i> belonging to the Exhibition building of +1862; and having been made a present, by the contractors, Messrs. +Lucas and Co., to Sir Morton Peto, was presented by that +gentleman for its present good purpose in the +Cornwall-road. It was set up in 1863, including a large, +commodious schoolroom, deacons’ and minister’s +vestries all included. The chapel itself is a spacious +oblong, fitted with an organ gallery behind the pulpit, and +another gallery of similar dimensions at the opposite end, but +having no side galleries. The organ was also the gift of +Sir M. Peto, and built by Willis, of the Albany-road, +Regent’s-park, at a cost of 300<i>l.</i> There is a +plain pulpit, sufficiently elevated, and the floor is plainly +pewed; but the woodwork in the roof is tastefully coloured in +light blue and white, which gives a light and pleasing aspect to +the interior. The place will accommodate about 800 +persons.</p> +<p>The Rev. J. A. Spurgeon, brother of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, +of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, was the first minister of the +chapel. He laboured very successfully for four +years—collecting an excellent congregation and a goodly +body of church members. He was, however, unfortunately for +his people, removed to <a name="page51"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 51</span>assist his brother in the duties of +the college which he had founded in connexion with his South +London enterprise. Previously to his departure, however, +the church gave substantial proof of the esteem in which it held +him, by presenting him with a purse containing 50<i>l.</i>, and a +handsome gold watch and key, by Bennett, of Cheapside, which cost +24<i>l.</i></p> +<p>The successor was the Rev. Charles White a minister who can +scarcely be said to have settled in the church. At his +inauguration the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached an appropriate +sermon, at the close of which he hoped, and in fact predicted, +that the Rev. Mr. White would prove the “right man” +for the congregation. It, however, almost immediately after +transpired that a serious feeling of estrangement, and of +something beyond, sprung up between several of the principal +members and deacons and the new minister. It need not be +surmised which side was most to blame. Probably it is safe +to omit all conjectures on the subject. This “letting +out” of the waters of strife became painful in its +consequences. The church was completely rent; and in about +nine months after his appointment Mr. White left the chapel, and +betook himself, with a large number of the congregation, to the +Ladbroke Hall near, where he continued to minister for another +year. In the meantime the chapel was well nigh forsaken and +the church severely tried. It was at this juncture that the +present minister, the Rev. R. H. Roberts, B.A. (of London +University), was invited, and undertook the charge. Under +the difficult circumstances he appears to have acted the part of +a wise man, resolving and avowing his resolution not in any way +to interfere with Mr. White, or harbour any feeling of hostility +towards him or his friends, but, on the contrary, to evince +towards them an amicable disposition. There was, however, +not long the need for this display of Christian temper in that +direction, as very soon Mr. White removed from the +neighbourhood. From that time the church has been gradually +revived and the congregation visibly increased, many of the old +members returning, and some new being added; and at present it +looks as though it must shortly recover its former +strength. Mr. Roberts, who has now been two years with the +church, is an intelligent and thoughtful preacher, and from the +discourse to which we listened, founded on the parable of the +pounds, we should think he is aiming at inspiring his people with +a high sense of their responsibility. There were some +pointed and pregnant utterances in the sermon which are apt to +fix themselves in the memory. As for instance, in regard to +the constancy of Christian service: “Let not this be a work +for ‘saints’ days,’ for all days are, or ought +to be, <i>saints’ days</i> in the calendar of the kingdom +of heaven.” As to the Saviour’s second advent: +“The <i>best</i> way of waiting for Christ is to continue +<i>working</i> for him. With the nearness or distance of +his coming we have nothing to do; the word says ‘Occupy +<i>till</i> I come.’” As to the proper use of +our talents: “Some men prosper and come into the front +<i>by accident</i>; but the outward seeming will be +<i>pierced</i> through in the day of account, and the very heart +of whatever reality there is about us will be got +at.” Then, again, as to human attainments: “All +human attainments are only divine endowments developed and +magnified.” These and similar terse remarks, thrown +out in passing, added effect to various parts of the subject.</p> +<p>The service of song is well provided for here. +“Psalms and Hymns” for use in Baptist congregations +is the book used, in which it is satisfactory to observe the name +of every author drawn upon appended to his composition. The +Bristol Tune-book is distributed, and the name of the tune is +given out with the hymn. There is also Allen’s Book +of Congregational Chants and Anthems; and that grand and +universal hymn <i>Te Deum Laudamus</i> was not omitted, but was +sung in the midst of the service with much propriety and spirit +by the whole congregation.</p> +<p>In the Sunday-school there are a little over 300 children on +the books, and an average attendance of about 100 in the morning +and 220 in the afternoon. There is a “Home Missionary +Society,” which employs twelve tract distributors; a +“Maternal Society,” a regular “Mothers’ +Meeting,” and a “Dorcas Society.” In its +late troubles, as a matter of course, the finances of the church +became deranged and fell into arrears. Although surely +improving, a rather heavy balance is still due to the +treasurer. Yet, notwithstanding, we observe that the +congregation contributed last year 43<i>l.</i> 18s. 7d. to +foreign missions. The church draws its home support from +pew-rents, which last year amounted to 185<i>l.</i> 11s., and a +weekly offertory, a special fund, incidental sources, and +collections, yielding in all, from July 1869 to July 1870, +497<i>l.</i> 1s. 11d.</p> +<p>The order of services is: Sunday—Prayer-meeting at +10.15, public worship at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 7 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span>; Monday, prayer-meeting at 7.30; +Wednesday, “Congregational Bible-class,” a service +intended for the simple exposition of any passage of Scripture +upon which any person present might wish comment offered; +alternating with singing classes, teachers’ meetings, +church meetings, &c. Inquirers’ meetings are held +on Monday evenings by the pastor in the Vestry, from 7 to +7.30. Communion on the first Sabbath in each month after +the evening service, and on the third Sabbath after the morning +service.</p> +<p>The Deacons are eight in number—viz., Messrs. W. Baynes, +W. Knight, Charles Chambers, Dr. Pennell, Dr. Manning; Messrs. +Catchpole, Hunt, and Healy.</p> +<h3><a name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 52</span>THE +ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS D’ASSISI, NOTTING +HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> church is situated in Pottery +lane, near the north end of Portland-road, bordering on the +Potteries, from the poor population of which—more +particularly the Irish portion—it draws its +congregation. The building and the school attached occupy +one side of the road, and a row of stables the other; and, as +though not to be desecrated by looking on the latter, there is +not a noticeable window in the road side of the church; +consequently no architectural attraction in the exterior, which +is about as uninviting as the site on which it stands. It +is not until one has passed through a small enclosed courtyard, +thence by an unexpected turn into a half-hidden portico, and +again through a cloistered doorway—all impressing with a +strong idea of seclusion—that he becomes really conscious +of the presence of an ecclesiastical edifice. Everything to +this point is plain as plainness itself—there being nothing +to be seen but a heavy, bulky pile of common brickwork, wearing +something of the aspect of a very poor monastic enclosure. +But on reaching the interior a different impression is awakened, +although still heaviness and gloom prevail. The principal +nave is short, and that, with the side called “Our +Lady’s Chapel,” are together not capable of holding +more than about 500 persons. At the same time it looks +overcrowded with pillars, which darken and intercept an otherwise +limited view. The effect of the whole is that of strength, +but dimness and lowness. The architecture is of a mixed +kind, in which the Italian is prominent, with a slight blending +of Gothic. The diminished effect of space and light are, +however, of course relieved by the illuminations and ornaments +peculiar to a Roman Catholic church—the numerous candles, +the images, the high altar, its bright furniture, drapery, and +ministrant priests, standing out conspicuously, and lit by +daylight from the chancel-windows. Moreover, a strip of the +walls through the full length on both sides is ornamented with +some effective painting on slate, representing various passages +in our Lord’s sufferings, by Westlake, who also executed a +couple of frescoes at the back of the side altars, and the +subjects of three or four stained windows. The decorations +of the large side-altars to the Virgin and St. Francis are +partially seen through the commingling columns. The body of +the church is filled with plain benches and cane-bottomed chairs, +all of which are much the worse for wear, and in their present +state looking quite in keeping with the voluntary austerity and +poverty of the famous mendicant friar of the thirteenth century +from whom the church derives its name, and whom it regards as its +patron saint, <i>St. Francis D’Assisi</i>. A charge +is made for entering the seats, and be it noted that not one was +observed to enter without dropping his coin, larger or smaller, +in the plate. The fee appears to be considered in the light +of a <i>weekly offering</i>. One of the most notable +objects in the church is the baptistry, where there is a handsome +marble font, with a large conical lid and fixed pulley machinery +for raising it.</p> +<p>This church was built ten years ago, by Mr. Clutton, as a +chapel of case to the larger Roman Catholic cause—St. +Mary’s, Bayswater—which establishment was the first +outcome of the late Cardinal Wiseman’s Ultramontane mission +in London. The Rev. Father H. A. Rawse, M.A., then of the +Oratory, Brompton, and previously an Anglican priest of Oxford, +illustrated his zeal as a convert to Rome by the donation of +7,000<i>l.</i> to the St. Francis enterprise, and became its +first resident priest. The Rev. Father Lescher is the +present minister, who is occasionally assisted by priests from +the parent church at Bayswater, or from the Oratory, and had +present, on the morning of our visit, Father Robertson, from the +former place. Father Lescher himself has lately given proof +of his zeal by the handsome gift of 500<i>l.</i> towards +1,400<i>l.</i> for the purchase of the Silchester Hall, recently +occupied by the Methodists, and being acquired by the Catholics +for a school. Their present day-school, in Pottery-lane, +has about 160 pupils, who pay, as a rule, a penny per week, the +necessary balance being made up by other funds.</p> +<p>Father Lescher was the preacher for the morning, and prefaced +his homily by several announcements, one of which had reference +to looking after their pauper children who were taken to the +Kensington Workhouse. On any child being taken there, +notice was to be given to the priest, who would cause inquiry to +be made as to the spiritual oversight of such children; and the +congregation were earnestly exhorted to attend to this, as he +said it would “prevent the <i>proselytism of the +poor</i>.” He congratulated them that they had +succeeded in sending some Roman Catholics to the Board at the +last election, and so had fared better of late. But he +urged them to endeavour to return more at the next election, in +order that their prospects in regard to the children might be +still more improved!</p> +<p>The rev. father took for his text Ephesians iv. 23, 24, +“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put +on the new man; which after God is created in righteousness and +true holiness.” The discourse was a simple, pointed +extempore address on regeneration, or, as the preacher sometimes +called it, “conversion,” occupying about thirty +minutes. There was “a great difference between the +Christian and the heathen.” “We were not born +Christians, but sinners; and sin would master us unless a change +be wrought in us.” “Heresy always had some +truth in it; but it was truth carried <a name="page53"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 53</span>out without being duly limited by +other truths.” Thus as to regeneration, which was +wrought by the grace of God in the soul—no doubt that grace +began to work in baptism. But a man was not regenerate or +converted because he had been baptized, for he might be living in +sin. Conversion was a thing to go on continually through a +man’s life. Europe was covered all over with a race +of baptized, but really unregenerate men. Sin should be +completely taken out of our heart. From beginning to end +regeneration was God’s work. He made us new +creatures. Christ was a new man in this world, and was a +pattern to which we were to be conformed; we must be like him, +setting aside all worldly-vain, foolish, and vicious +thoughts. St. Francis was an example, whose feast they had +just celebrated, who, by the grace of God, was enabled to live a +life of devotion and self-denial. “Let them pray to +St. Francis, that he might help them to follow in his +steps.” Apart from the exhortation to pray to St. +Francis, many will take the essence, form, and language of this +outline as thoroughly Evangelical. There appears to be a +departure from the strict doctrine of essential sacramental +efficacy, and a distinct insistence on the necessity of a change +of heart and of a holy life. It was high mass, and one of +Mozart’s formed the musical part. The organ is a +small one, but sweet in tone, and played by a new +organist—a pupil from the Pro-Cathedral. The choir +did not contain any distinguished voice, but the singing, though +less florid, was more appropriate than the extreme artistic +affectations of the Oratory and Pro Cathedral. On the +previous Wednesday—which was the Roman Catholic Feast Day +of St. Francis D’Assisi—Archbishop Manning had +preached in the church.</p> +<h3>THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN, NOTTING HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> meeting-place of this +<i>peculiar</i> people is in an upper room, Clarendon-place, +Clarendon-road, Notting-hill. It appears filled with 150 +persons, and as far as we could incidentally learn they have +about eighty acknowledged brethren and sisters. This +society is the result of a division in the one formerly united in +Bayswater, and is composed of what are termed the “Darbyite +party” in that schism. The “Brethren” +have been in West London over twenty years, but this part of +their small body has been at Clarendon-place five or six +years. They form the only congregation of that persuasion +in the parish of Kensington. We found them on visit to be +an extremely close and uncommunicative people, with the single +exception of an amiable sister, next whom we happened to sit, and +who politely tendered more information than we could subsequently +extract from all the brethren. It was the usual Sunday +morning service of “breaking of bread.” The +loaf, which was a plain baker’s loaf, was in the centre of +a table; in the coarse of the “breaking” the middle +of it disappeared, and little but the shell remained. There +were also two plain glasses upon the table. As a rule these +services of bread-breaking are conducted in silence; but on this +occasion some speaking was allowed, and two of the leading +brethren in succession read and commented in a familiar way upon +portions of Scripture. Some of the remarks we are obliged +to notice were extremely simple, quite spontaneous, and were +delivered under what the speakers appeared to think <i>spiritual +impulses</i>. There was, however, nothing very instructive +or useful in what was said. The speaking done, a brother +engaged in prayer, and after another brother had read a list of +names of persons who wished, on the next Sabbath, to break bread +with them, one marriage of a brother and sister to take place on +the following Saturday, and two burials for that day, the meeting +terminated. In separating the amount of <i>hand-shaking</i> +and friendly, and doubtless cordial, recognition of each other, +was so protracted that we could not get from our <i>extra +saint</i> seat for a considerable time. When at length we +got near the table and encountered a few of the leading brethren, +being invited thereto by our observant and kindly sister, we +endeavoured with all humility to make acquaintance with the case +as it stood; but, we are sorry to say, found ourselves impeded at +every step. Our object was keenly and suspiciously +canvassed. On being simply told that our design was in +general to furnish through the Press a connective view of the +Christian influences and operations at work upon this vast +population, and by so doing to interest the public more fully on +the subject, we were met with indescribable scorn at the mention +of the “Press.” They would consider it “a +sin” to give any information to the +“Press.” It was the curse of the world, was the +“Press.” On being asked if there was not a +Christian side to the “Press,” they emphatically +answered “No.” There was no such thing as a +“religious Press.” It was “all +worldly” from beginning to end. The magazines even of +the religious bodies were only trying to unite religion and the +world. With amusing simplicity one brother asked if by the +“<i>Press</i>” we meant “that machine by which +tracts, &c., were printed;” and we had to explain that +by the “Press” in this connection we meant “a +Christian literature as opposed to what was worldly, secular, or +infidel.” With one voice they exclaimed there was +“no such thing.” We asked if they did not hope +to make some use of Christian literature in striving to effect +the world’s conversion. The <a +name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>reply to this +important question given by the principal brother very gravely +was, “No; <i>we have nothing to do with the world</i>; our +work is to <i>gather God’s saints out of the +world</i>.” “But,” we rejoined, “is +not the Gospel sent to the world? And did not the Son of +God come to save the world?” The answer was +unhesitatingly given by the same gentleman, “No; it was to +collect his saints out of the earth.” After this we +could not prolong the conversation and took our leave; but before +we had left the landing to descend the stairs we were followed by +a young man commissioned to ask us this question, “Have you +eternal life?” In answer, we affirmed our belief and +hope that we had, and asserted our experience of conversion many +years ago. On this we were reminded that there “was +but one way.” We replied that the “one +way” was found in every Christian Church and in the Church +Catholic; but, strange to say, this declaration was met with +evident disbelief. “God,” it was said, +“did not make sects.” We left, asking ourselves +the question, How upon these principles could the great purpose +of the Son of God in this world be answered?</p> +<p>After the above appeared in the <i>Suburban Press</i> a letter +of explanation was received by the Editor from one of the +brethren, which will be found among the supplementary +notes. The latter appears to have been written upon +reflection, whilst the preceding conversation was doubtless +conducted upon the feeling of the moment. Yet, it +faithfully reflected the peculiarities of the members, who appear +to have no faith in anything but what is strictly identified with +their own belief and practice; altogether too narrow for the +expanding evangelistic tendencies of the age.</p> +<h3>JOHNSON-STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> is one of the plainest of +buildings for religious purposes, low and uncommanding, and +almost lost even among the humble dwellings amidst which it +stands—a simple meeting-house, with a stuccoed front, but +looking neat and clean, having been recently repaired and +painted, and the walls newly coloured within, giving it a fresh +and healthy look. The pewing is of a humble character and +unvarnished, and the pulpit plain and high. There is a +gallery in the west end, which, added to the accommodation on the +ground-floor, gives about 250 sittings, the ordinary congregation +being at present about 100. The church and people are +Strict Baptist in persuasion. Upon the corner-stone we find +the following inscription: “This stone was laid by Messrs. +Foreman and Wells, Oct. 13, 1851. The chapel is for the use +of the <i>Particular Baptists</i>. P. W. Williamson, +Pastor. J. Cook and T. Rowley, Deacons.” The +chapel has thus been in existence twenty years. The +church—never very vigorous or flourishing—has had a +chequered history, disputes having arisen among its members from +time to time upon subjects relating to its internal affairs, and +which resulted six years ago in a division, further weakening its +situation and diminishing its few members. From this blow +it appears never to have recovered, there being now no more than +between fifty and sixty acknowledged members. The present +minister is the Rev. C. W. Banks, who has been there one year, +and the cause is supported by pew-rents and voluntary weekly +offerings. A “Free-will Offering” box is fixed +on the inside of each entrance to the aisles, and on every +succeeding Sunday the amount so collected is placed in large +figures against the side walls. On the occasion of our +visit, the account for the previous Sabbath stood thus: +“Loose money, 3s. 8d.; in thirteen envelopes, 10s. +3d.” The preacher had a strong voice, and exerted it +even beyond the natural requirements of his small audience; but +at times it would be almost impossible to hear him if he did not, +in consequence of the noisy costermongers, who shout one against +the other in the narrow street and immediately in front of the +chapel, without any regard to its presence or the service +proceeding within. This is certainly a crying evil, and +should attract the attention of the police. We had no idea +that vegetable and other carts (hand and donkey drawn) were so +numerous and noisy during the hours of Divine Service, as we +witnessed them in Johnson-street, and other adjacent back streets +and ways in the rear of High-street, Notting-hill. Surely +there is yet need for a “Suppression of Sunday Trading +Society.” There is a small Sunday-school, attended by +a few self-denying teachers, and the public services +are—Sunday at eleven and half-past six; prayer meeting at +three <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Wednesdays, preaching +at half-past seven; and on Monday evenings, prayer-meeting; and a +special monthly prayer-meeting every first Friday evening in the +month. There is manifest care under difficulties for the +Christian work.</p> +<h3>SILVER-STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> place known by this name is +situated in Kensington-place, near its junction with +Silver-street, a poor unsightly edifice, within two or three +minutes’ walk of the Johnson-street Chapel, and is the +meeting-place of the separated portion of its former +congregation. The building is in <a name="page55"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 55</span>a dilapidated state, the plaster +broken away, and the woodwork the worse for lack of paint. +The congregation was celebrating its sixth anniversary, and from +all appearances there was great need of replenishing the +exchequer. However, the event did not seem to have aroused +much enthusiasm, for scattered over a rather larger area there +was even a smaller congregation than in the former place. +The chapel will apparently hold about 350, and there must have +been less than 100 present. There is a gallery at one end, +and all the other sittings are on the ground floor. The +present minister is the Rev. D. Crumpton, whose voice, in its +general tone, was indicative of discouragement, assuredly with +every apparent reason. The two congregations together might +make up an appearance in the smaller of the two chapels; but +separately they appear weak and helpless in the extreme, a sight +to make a good man mourn over strife and division. It will +be next to a miracle if ever these churches rise to a position of +influence and power in the neighbourhood. The locality is +low and in great need of evangelistic efforts; and if anything +could be done to bring the noisy, idle people who fill those +narrow streets, or stand at their wretched little open +shop-doors, waiting for stray customers, who steal out to market +in the hours of Divine Worship, it would be a great boon. +There is a Sunday-school attached to the chapel, in which some of +the poor children around are collected together, and in this +circumstance there may linger hope. The order of services +is: Sunday, prayer-meeting at 7 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>; +preaching at 11.0 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and prayer-meeting at 3.0 <span +class="smcap">p.m</span>. The school is held at 9.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 3.0 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> On week-days there is +prayer-meeting on Monday evening at 7.30, and preaching on +Thursday evening. The prayer-meeting at 7.0 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> on Sunday morning may be noted as a +rarity in these days, and if tolerably well attended, shows that +there is life, amidst all existing discouragements.</p> +<h3>SLOANE-PLACE CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> is the smallest place of +worship we have yet had to notice, being apparently intended for +the sole use of the occupants of that obscure court in +North-street, called Sloane-place. North-street branches +out of Sloane-street, and runs through a very low neighbourhood; +and in about the lowest part of it, densely populated, is the +court down which one passes to reach the chapel. It is at +the extreme end of the parish eastward. The chapel has an +aspect in every way in keeping with the humble class of tenements +among which it stands, and of course has nothing architecturally +to notice. It has a lamp over the low front door, which may +serve in the stead of a parish lamp, to illumine the gloomy alley +on dark evenings. The building has a dwarfed and dingy +appearance; was from the first, is, and perhaps ever will be +private property, lent for its present purpose by the +proprietor. It will hold at the utmost only 100 +persons. There is no settled pastorate; but it is supplied +with preaching on the Sunday evening only, under the direction of +the Rev. Dr. Alexander, of the Belgrave-square Presbyterian +Church. The preacher is usually Dr. Stewart, of +Grosvenor-street, a medical gentleman belonging to Dr. +Alexander’s church. This Christian doctor is +regularly at his post on Sunday evenings, except an extraordinary +professional engagement hinder, holding forth the Word of Life to +the few poor people who assemble beneath the humble roof. +There are no regular ordinances and no other public services, +except a prayer-meeting on Sunday morning and on Thursday +evening. All the sittings are free. A Sunday-school +is a notable feature. Sixty or seventy poor children come +together in the chapel from 3 to 4.30 on Sunday afternoons, and +are attended to by a few zealous teachers who enter heartily into +this work. Poor and humble as the building is in itself and +all its surroundings, it is thus undoubtedly a light shining in a +dark place. The self-denial and devotion of those kind +persons who attend to Christian work in this place is quite +exemplary, and will certainly meet with its reward.</p> +<h3>ST. MICHAEL’S AND ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, +NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> new Church of “St. +Michael and All Angels” embraces the northern part of the +District of All Saints’, Notting-hill, in its new extension +towards Kensal-green, in the Ladbroke-grove-road. No doubt, +just at this spot, there will, in time, be a middle-class +population sufficient to fill the church. But at present +the property is new, and, therefore, it would seem St. +Michael’s must for some time to come draw from a +distance. The Vicar Designate, the Rev. Edward Ker Gray, +was formerly curate to Dr. Robbins, of St. Peter’s, +Kensington-park, and has family connexions in the neighbourhood, +who have largely contributed to his present enterprise; and the +plot of land on which the edifice stands, and that on which a +parsonage is yet to be built, are the gift of Messrs. Blake and +Parsons, who are freeholders in that part. The style of +architecture adopted differs from that of most churches, being +what is professionally known as the “Romanesque of the +Rhine,” and is executed chiefly in terra cotta and +ornamental bricks, by Mr. Cowland, of Notting-hill, under a +contract <a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +56</span>(exclusive of tower and fittings) for +4,300<i>l.</i> The architects are Messrs. Edmeston of +Crown-court, Old Broad-street; and the plan consists of a nave +ninety-nine feet long, exclusive of chancel and western apse, by +forty-three feet wide, roofed in one span, with an eastern, +western, and southern apse, leaving a northern apse to be added +at some future time. On the north side the church is hidden +by houses, and it is seen to best advantage at the south-west +angle, where it will form rather a picturesque object, when the +grouping of tower, turret, apse, and gable are added to the +view. The interior is yet unfurnished, and only +sufficiently fitted up for the performance of worship. The +pulpit, desk, organ, and chancel furniture are all +temporary. The contract for the decoration is given to +Messrs. Howland and Fisher, who decorated St. Peter’s, +Bayswater, which is considered one of the handsomest church +interiors in London. About 1,000 sittings are provided, +applications for which are requested. The occasion of our +visit was the service of consecration, in May, 1871, conducted by +the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London. +There was a good congregation present; and immediately after the +entrance of the Bishop, Mr. Shephard, the Registrar of his +Lordship’s diocese, read the petition of the Vicar, +Churchwardens and parishioners praying for the consecration of +the church. The Bishop having replied, “I am ready to +consecrate this church, according to the prayer of the +petition,” a procession was as once formed, headed by the +parish beadles with their staves, followed by the churchwardens, +Bishop, and clergy, who slowly walked round the church, the +Bishop repeating the usual service. On returning to the +Communion Table, the deed of conveyance was formally received and +laid upon the table by the Bishop. The prayers for the +ordinary morning service were read by the Rev. Mr. Gray, the +Psalms, Te Deum, and hymns being chanted by a choir of good +voices, male and female, blending well together, under the +direction of Mr. Sydney Naylor, organist. On ascending the +pulpit the Bishop took for his text, John xvii. 6, “I have +manifested thy name to the men which thou gavest me out of the +world,” &c. The subject was divided into three +parts: 1. What name he manifested. 2. How he manifested +it. 3. The character of the persons to whom he manifested +the name of his Father. These topics were worked out with +great clearness of thought and felicity of utterance; the Bishop +steering delicately through the difficult problem of Divine +predestination and human free will, and rendering the point as +satisfactory as it ever can become to mortal reflection. A +very feeling individual application of the subject to the +congregation concluded the discourse. It is about twelve +years since we had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Jackson at a +confirmation service in a small town in Lincolnshire, and it is +gratifying to observe the same doctrinal safety and thorough +practical bearing in his ministry which struck us at that +time. He also bears his increased years well, displaying a +freshness in his appearance and a vigour equal to if not superior +to himself more than a decade since. A collection was made +after sermon from pew to pew towards the organ and church +expenses, and the remainder of the Communion Service and the +benediction concluded the whole. It ought to be noticed +that a number of the local clergy were present, and that the Rev. +Dr. Robbins read the first lesson—the consecration of the +Temple by Solomon—in a most impressive manner, and the Rev. +J. S. Gell the few verses which compose the second lesson. +The Bishop’s chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Fisher, also assisted +in the service within the chancel rail.</p> +<p>Mr. Gray’s ministry is reported Evangelical in its +character, and his service lively and devotional, without +Ritualistic features. The congregation gradually increases, +and it is hoped that ere long the furnishing will be completed, +and that the church will answer all the purposes for which it was +built in that rising population. The Churchwardens are +Captain N. W. Boyce and J. D. Cowland, Esq., and the services +are: Sundays at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 3 and 7 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Weekdays, Wednesday and +Friday at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, the Litany, Holy +Communion, at 9 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> every Sunday, and +after the 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> service the last +Sunday in every month. Baptisms at 2.30 first Sunday in the +month, and at 10.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> on Wednesday +and Friday.</p> +<h3>NORLAND CHAPEL, QUEEN’S-ROAD, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Norland Chapel</span> is situate in the +Queen’s-road, Notting-hill, and on the extreme western +boundary of the Parish of Kensington. The boundary stone of +the parish is fixed in the wall which surrounds the chapel, and +the iron pillar which marks the line of the Hammersmith Parish +stands near to it about half a foot further west. It was +built in the year 1859, the foundation-stone being laid in May of +that year by the late Robert Hanbury, Esq., M.P., for +Middlesex. The architect was Mr. Stent, of Warminster, and +builders, Messrs. Hill and Robinson, of Whitechapel. Mr. +Hill was the builder of the new Holborn-viaduct, and is now +building the streets connected with the Holborn-valley +improvement. In architecture it is of a very various order, +but may be defined as “mixed Italian.” The +front, which is towards the south, is somewhat picturesque. +The porch is reached by a wide flight of steps, and is adorned +with four neat columns of Portland stone, with carved capitals of +Bath stone; and surmounted with a large circular window; the +whole front having Bath-stone <a name="page57"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 57</span>dressing upon coloured brick. +There are two side doors, which lead to the gallery in the south +end. The building, as a whole, is of plain brick and has a +substantial appearance. The west front corner was intended +to receive a spire; which, however, has not yet been built. +Its erection would certainly be a great improvement to the +edifice. In the interior, the space is well +economised. Beneath the floor of the chapel, there is a +spacious school-room; which serves also as a week-night lecture, +preaching, and anniversary tea-meeting room. It is well +furnished, and has a harmonium to assist in the services held +there. The space behind is laid out in class-rooms, +minister’s vestries, and offices. A more compact and +commodious suite of rooms for the space at disposal we have +seldom met with. The chapel proper provides sittings for +650 people—500 on the ground-floor and 150 in the end +gallery. The sittings are let at from 2s. 6d. to 5s. per +quarter, and the congregation averages from 300 to 400. A +modern raised platform pulpit is an ornament, flanked with two +handsome gas pillars; and the pewing is in stained wood, and +looks as good as new, after a dozen years’ wear. In +lieu of columns to support the roof the ribs which span it rest +on ornamental Bath-stone corbels inserted in the walls at about +12 feet high, which are really stronger than they look, and are +adopted to prevent the obscurity of the view, and the absorption +of space by columns. The chapel is lit by gas pendants from +the roof, and is warmed in winter by the same, being lit over +night. By this means a comfortable heat is diffused through +the building, reaching, if required, to seventy degrees. +This method of warming will, of course, be greatly improved, if +the gas companies will adopt the patent gas offered them by the +“Patent Gas Company,” which professes to reduce the +amount of sulphur in every hundred feet of gas from forty-four +degrees to about four. In that case, warming by gas would +no doubt soon supersede some other methods. Red baize with +brass mouldings faces the side walls all round to a certain +height above the pews, which gives a comfortable and cheerful +appearance to the whole interior. The original cost of the +building, including the freehold site, was 3,000<i>l.</i></p> +<p>The church and congregation at this place are Baptist; but +open their communion to all who “profess and give evidence +of the New Birth;” and are sufficiently open occasionally +to receive any Christian person at the Lord’s Supper who +may desire it, and who has previously sent a note or card to the +vestry. The basis of its membership is thus expressed in +its articles: “We enter this fellowship as Christians, each +one holding that the other is united to the Lord Jesus Christ by +faith in him according to the Scriptures.” Prior to +the present chapel, the congregation met temporarily in an old +building facing Shepherd’s-bush-green; but removed to the +new and more commodious edifice, with their first minister, the +Rev. John Stent, as soon as it was ready. Mr. Stent +continued the pastor until he had completed eight years. He +was then succeeded by the Rev. W. H. Tredray, who after two years +was in turn superseded by the Rev. W. P. Balfern. After two +years also of ministerial labour, Mr. Balfern has just been +compelled to retire in consequence of ill-health. The +church has thus for some little time been deprived of a stated +ministry; but we understand, that a minister is upon the point of +being formally invited, and will, in all probability, be settled +for a period. We heard a plain, earnest sermon from an +occasional supply on the morning of our visit. The service +was conducted in the way ordinary to Baptist chapels; but we were +particularly struck with the excellence of the congregational +singing, to which we believe the late pastor devoted much +attention. The people appeared very well trained to the +perception of harmony, and had in use the Bristol Tune-book, +which is well known to be one of the best extant. They +were, moreover, effectually sustained by the organ, which is a +capital 250<i>l.</i> instrument, by Jones, of Brompton, and well +played by the son of the senior deacon of the church.</p> +<p>The support of the ministry is from pew-rents and the proceeds +of a weekly offering. The other active institutions are a +Sunday-school, with over 300 scholars; a home missionary, +supported by the late minister, Mr. Balfern; a Dorcas meeting, +maternal society, tract society, and a mothers’ +meeting. There is in addition a penny bank, in which a +number of poor people and children store their little +savings. The order of services is—Sunday, at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, Sunday-school in the afternoon; prayer +and preaching on Friday evening at 7.30; a psalmody class meets +every Thursday evening for the practice of singing.</p> +<h3>LANCASTER-ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> foundation-stone of this chapel +was laid by Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P., in July, 1865, when, +although so recent, the whole of that part of North Kensington in +which it is situated was open field, with here and there a +dotting of new buildings commenced, and new streets laid +out. At the present time the occupied suburbs extend quite +a mile beyond it either North or West. The congregation +worshipping here first assembled in smaller numbers in +Westbourne-hall, where they kept together for between two and +three years, always with a view to a separate building as +opportunity offered. The present freehold site was +ultimately obtained for 1,350<i>l.</i>, and the cost of the +building raised upon it, including the schoolrooms, was +3,500<i>l.</i> It is a substantial structure with a Gothic +expression, although totally devoid of ornament. It was, +however, originally designed, and is yet intended to have a +spire, which certainly will <a name="page58"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 58</span>be a vast improvement to the +exterior. The interior is light and pleasant, without +galleries, with a plain pulpit and pewing, affording +accommodation for 500 persons, 100 of the sittings being free, +all the remainder let at prices ranging from 5s. to 1<i>l.</i> +1s. per annum. The chapel was opened in January, 1866, by +inauguratory services conducted by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel +and the Rev. Samuel Martin, of Westminster. From the first +the stated minister has been the Rev. Jas. Stuart Russell, whose +ministry is highly appreciated as pious, scriptural, able, and +earnest. During its continuance there has been gradual +prosperity, the church now numbering about 120 communicants, and +the congregation reaching an average of between three and four +hundred. There is a large Sunday-school, with, including +infants, 250 scholars, attended by a goodly staff of teachers: +morning and afternoon, under the superintendence of Mr. S. +Hicks. The form of service is what is understood as +Congregational, and the Congregational Hymn-book is used. +An organ well suited to the dimensions of the building is +efficiently employed by Mr. Charles Wetton, Jun., in aid of the +devotional singing, which seems to lose nothing of its +congregational life and character by the presence of the +instrument. Divine Service is held on the Sabbath at 11 +<span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and in the schoolroom during the week, +on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at 7.30. A Communion +service on the first Sunday in every month. There are at +present four deacons, Messrs. Hicks, Ellerton, W. Knowles, and +Wetton, Sen. The locality of this chapel is one which +furnishes ample scope for Christian labour and extension on every +side. The district in the heart of which it stands, that of +All Saints’, has a population of 20,747, according to the +figures of the recent census, and it is the only Congregational +place of worship within the bounds.</p> +<h3>THE “TALBOT TABERNACLE” NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> is an iron church, situate in +the Talbot-road, Notting-hill, and a few steps only from and on +the same side of the road as “All Saints’” +Church. It has the same general features as all the iron +buildings, but is larger than most of them, having an end +gallery, and affording ample accommodation for one thousand +persons. The north end or chancel is occupied with a +platform, which serves as a pulpit, and the benches of the +auditorium come close to it. It is well warmed with a +stove, and lit with plain gas pendants; and altogether has a very +comfortable appearance. The history of this building must +be traced in connexion with the career of Mr. Gordon Forlong, a +name now well known in and beyond the immediate scene of his +labours. This gentleman is a Scotch barrister, who, a few +years ago (in 1856), felt moved to give up the pursuit of his +profession for the work of an evangelist. His endeavours to +make known the Gospel appear to have been highly appreciated in +his native Aberdeenshire; and were soon sought for in different +parts of Scotland and in Edinburgh, where Mr. Forlong spent some +time. After a trial, however, he found that the condition +of an itinerant preacher, with a family, became impracticable, +and resolved on seeking a settled charge in London. Here +his first appearance was in the Victoria-hall, Archer-street, in +October, 1867. The hall, which he hired on his own +responsibility, was generally well attended at his services, and +continued to be used by him until 1869. In the latter half +of that year, the present building was secured at a cost in all +of 2,000<i>l.</i>, to be liquidated by instalments, there being +also a ground-rent of 96<i>l.</i> per annum. Apart from a +little aid which Mr. Forlong has drawn from his friends in the +North and elsewhere, the whole financial obligation of this +enterprise has rested with himself and the friends who have been +inclined to assist him on the spot. That it has been a +great struggle is not surprising. At the end of the first +year there was a balance on the wrong side of the sheet to the +amount of 476<i>l.</i> 1s. 9d., which, being paid by the +minister, left the total amount advanced by him for the church +714<i>l.</i> 9s. 6d. This, it may be hoped, has been ere +now discharged by the congregation; more especially as up to the +present time, the minister’s services, both at the Hall and +in the new church, have received no remuneration. There are +about 150 sittings, let at from 4s. to 30s. per seat per annum; +and there are church-boxes for weekly offerings and various +collections through the year. This together may be +considered a sufficient financial basis to work upon, in order to +place the concern, not long hence, in a free and prosperous +condition.</p> +<p>Mr. Gordon Forlong rejects the title of Reverend. Having +never obtained or sought ordination in any church, he looks upon +himself as a lay preacher of the Gospel, called and set apart by +God only; and treats with indifference and even contemns all +ministerial titles and peculiar functions, as looking in the +direction of priestcraft, which he abhors. He has, from the +first, taken his special mission in the neighbourhood to be to +oppose Ritualism, which he found developing itself on his +arrival, and to call together a people to exemplify spiritual +religion. To these objects he has certainly confined +himself with great steadiness, and not without success. A +number of persons, it is said, find refuge at the +“Tabernacle” who have been alienated from their +mother Church hard by through Ritualistic practices; and the +truth of this statement, it appears, cannot be challenged. +The character of the church and congregation which Mr. Forlong +has formed is <i>non sectarian</i>, and does not allow itself to +be called either Baptist, Congregational, or Wesleyan, or +anything <a name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +59</span>else but the Church of Christ; although the mode of +conducting the service may be described as a free adaptation of +any and all of these. Along with the reading of the +Scriptures there is <i>exposition</i>. The hymns used are +gathered from all the Nonconformist collections, under the title +of “Psalms and Hymns,” published by Elliott, of +Tichborne-street. It contains selections from the principal +writers—Watts, Doddridge, Toplady, Wesley, &c. +One we heard sung was one of the finest and most impassioned of +the latter author, commencing—</p> +<blockquote><p>O Love Divine, how sweet thou art!<br /> +When shall I find my willing heart<br /> + All taken up by thee?<br /> +I thirst, I faint, I die to prove<br /> +The greatness of redeeming love,<br /> + The love of Christ to me!</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This was sung by the congregation to a lively tune and with +good devotional effect. At the close of this, the preacher +read a number of requests for special prayer from members of the +congregation for specific objects stated on the paper, connected +with their personal or family experience, and some of +thanksgiving for former prayers answered. This took +considerable time, and was followed by a brief petition, giving a +general utterance to these supplications. The sermon was +extempore, and founded upon Psalm xxiii. Probably it should +be termed a free address, intended to bring out, by scriptural +illustration, the character of the Redeemer as the “Great +Shepherd.” Mr. Forlong does not appear to believe in +the ordinary style of sermonising, or +“philosophising” on distinct portions or mottoes of +Scripture; and has adopted the plan of turning his audience into +a great Bible class. They follow him systematically through +chapter and verse from beginning to end, and the preacher simply +connects the sense of the passages, and pauses here and there to +enforce a passing thought. The expositor, however, is +animated (as most Scotchmen are), and familiar in his +illustrations; and as to Scripture itself his system is highly +instructive. The sermon lasts about forty minutes. +There were about 400 present, on a very inclement morning. +There is a Sunday-school attached, with a good voluntary staff of +teachers, conducted morning and afternoon in the Golborne-Hall, +having 200 children of both sexes. The public services are, +Sunday morning at eleven; evening at seven; and prayer-meeting on +Thursday evening. Communion service on the first Sunday in +the month at the morning service, and the second Sunday at the +evening service. This service is administered without +written form, and by handing round the bread and wine to the +communicants in their seats. All religious persons are +admitted to it by introduction to the minister.</p> +<h3>PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL, FOWELL-STREET, NOTTING-HILL.</h3> +<p>A <span class="smcap">small</span> plain brick edifice, built +in the old, familiar Grecian style, and situated in +Fowell-street, in the Potteries, Notting-hill. The building +is a square; and has in the interior on three sides a gallery, +the other being occupied with a platform for the preacher. +In all, ground floor and galleries, there is accommodation for +about 200 people. On a memorial stone outside is the +following: “This stone was laid August 2, 1864, by J. +Fowell, Esq., who kindly gave the land, Rev. J. Phillips, +Superintendent Minister. J. Carrud, Architect and +Builder.” The chapel is connected with what is called +the “Second London” Primitive Methodist Circuit, in +which there are about a dozen different localities associated, +and of which the Rev. Mr. Toulson is the present superintendent +minister, having with him four colleagues. As one of the +earlier branches from the old Wesleyan body—dating as far +back as 1812—the “Primitives,” as their adopted +name implies, conceive that they follow more closely in the steps +of Mr. Wesley than the parent body. Nevertheless their +doctrines and their practices are precisely the same, except in a +few minor matters, which it would seem impossible to trace to a +Wesley origin. Camp-meetings was the question upon which +they first separated from the conference, which disallowed them; +but this peculiarity has much declined of late years. +Female preaching was another peculiarity, and at one time female +preachers were frequently found upon their plans; but this, too, +may be said to have well nigh passed away. In general +church arrangements and working they assimilate to the old body +in everything, except in the constitution of their Conference, in +which there is a considerable difference. The Conference +proper of Wesleyanism is composed entirely of ministers, but +preceded by “General Committees,” where the laity are +admitted. In the Primitive Methodist Connexion, the +Conference itself is composed of both ministers and laymen, and +the latter are in the proportion of two to one of the +former. The two bodies, however, work side by side without +antagonism, but it may be said also without much +fraternising. The social status and monetary power of the +two communities are widely different. The Primitives are +poor, their chapels are of the least costly kind, and their +ministers have barely a subsistence, yet are they highly +respectable in their order, and exert themselves with vigour and +enthusiasm in their calling. One of the junior ministers, +the Rev. Mr. Knipe, was officiating in Fowell-street, and offered +extempore prayer with an ardour, read with a homely emphasis, and +preached with a demonstration of manner that can seldom be heard +except in a Primitive Methodist chapel. His congregation +consisted of about 70 or 80 of the adult population, +respectable-looking poor people, by no means the lowest class to +be found in the Potteries. The latter is not the class <a +name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 60</span>that attend +either church or chapel. The <i>society</i>, or the church +proper, consists of from 50 to 70 persons, recognised as members +of class. There is a Sunday-school with about 80 children, +held in the morning and afternoon. The services are on +Sunday at 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>; Wednesday, 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>; prayer-meetings, Sunday morning at 7, +and on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings at 7. The +society, according to Methodist custom, contributes its quota +towards the support of the ministry by the weekly pence of the +members, quarterly contributions, and collections.</p> +<h3>UPPER WESTBOURNE-PARK BAPTIST CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> place of worship known by this +name is situated in the Bosworth-road, Upper Westbourne-park, or, +more properly, in Kensal New Town. It is in the midst of a +mass of new houses, either completed or in progress. It was +opened for worship in June, 1870. The Rev. H. W. Meadows, a +minister from Mr. Spurgeon’s College, first instituted +services in a room in the neighbourhood, from which he progressed +to the building of this chapel, at an entire cost of +360<i>l.</i> The place is far larger and more commodious +than this sum would seem to indicate; and it impresses one with +how much can be done for 360<i>l.</i> Of course, the +structure is not imposing, but of a plain and useful type, having +more the appearance of a public hall, but the interior is solidly +fitted with benches. There is a good platform pulpit, with +a gallery behind it, flanked on one side with a minister’s +vestry. It is comfortably warmed by a stove in the centre, +and well lit by a set of neat gas-pendants from the beams of the +roof. A debt of 200<i>l.</i> remains, which it is hoped +will shortly be liquidated. Accommodation is given for 400 +persons; but the attendance, when largest (in the evening), does +not as yet generally exceed 150; and there are about thirty +members in church fellowship. Mr. Meadows and his friends +have had difficulties to contend with on the spot, as one or two +small preaching-rooms near conducted by persons of the same +persuasion would seem to show. He has evidently had uphill +work; and it was not until the 18th of January, 1872, that a +church was finally formed and a settlement of his pastorate +arrived at; and on January 28 in the evening he held his first +ordinance of baptism by immersion. The cause is regarded as +a branch from Westbourne-grove Baptist Church, and as under the +particular notice and care of the Rev. W. G. Lewis. The +financial support is from pew-rents and weekly offerings, with +occasional aid; but the minister has never yet derived the +benefit of a salary. The services are, on Sundays: +Prayer-meeting, 7.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>; preaching +at 11 and at 6.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> A +Sabbath-school is held, in which there are about eighty scholars, +at 9.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 2.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> There is a service also on +Wednesday evening at 7.30. The deacons are Mr. W. S. Hook +and Mr. C. Heard. This is not a Strict Baptist church, but +adopts the open communion.</p> +<h3>THE SOUTH KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> memorial stone of this edifice +was laid on June 23, 1868, by James Harvey, Esq., Treasurer of +the London Baptist Association; when an address was delivered by +the Rev. W. Brock, D.D., of Bloomsbury Chapel. A meeting +followed in the evening, presided over by J. H. Tritton, Esq., +when most of the principal ministers representing Nonconformity +in West London were present; and among them the Rev. J. A. Aston, +M.A., the then catholic-spirited Incumbent of St. Stephen’s +Church, which is situated close to the chapel. The +immediate site is in the Cornwall-gardens, Gloucester-road, and +near the Gloucester-road Railway-station, one of the most +eligible sites that could be selected, in the midst of one of the +newest and choicest suburbs of the metropolis. The +neighbourhood included between the Brompton-road and +Queen’s-gate in one direction, and the Cornwall and +Fulham-roads in the other, has few rivals in or around +London. It includes the vicinity of South Kensington +Museum, Cromwell-road, Onslow-square, Onslow-gardens; +Gloucester-road, Queen’s-gate, Victoria-road, &c. +It was here that the Rev. Samuel Bird, after having laboured for +some time at the Hornton-street Tabernacle, and subsequently at +the Avenue-place Room, Kensington, conceived the idea of erecting +a chapel. Having taken a lease of the land, with a right of +pre-emption after a specified period, he proceeded to +build. Messrs. Searle and Sons were the architects, and Mr. +W. Higgs the builder, and in due course it was opened for Divine +worship. At first it seemed as though Nonconformity in +South Kensington was about to make an onward movement; but +whether from any social peculiarity in the locality, or personal +peculiarity in the minister, or from the circumstance of the +opening and enterprising of two or three more new churches in the +same part, we cannot pretend to say; but certain it is that the +new Baptist church, ere yet it was scarcely formed, suddenly +collapsed. After about two years’ effort, the +minister departed and the chapel was closed. It has +remained closed to the present time (Feb., 1872); and is now +announced to be sold by auction at the City Mart, by Messrs. Fox +and Bousfield, on the 14th inst. Its future history +therefore cannot <a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +61</span>for the moment be predicted. It is an affecting +sight to see so handsome a building deserted; and on visiting it +for the purpose of a survey, an aged person, formerly, as we +learned from himself, a member of the congregation, and who now +seemed not far from the better world, was pensively whiling away +the quiet morning in the fresh air around the silent +temple. He was sadly deploring the desolation and +abandonment of his Zion; and seemed to have his own theory as to +the cause of the failure, of which he made no secret. The +building is one of the completest, most commodious and effective +chapels to be met with around London. It is in brick with +Bath-stone dressings, and designed generally in the early +geometrical Gothic style of architecture; and has been greatly +beautified by the mortgagee, since it was closed to the public, +by the erection of a handsome tower and spire; and the facilities +of the interior have been also increased by the erection of a +gallery. It now affords accommodation for 1,000 +persons. It is substantially fitted with modern pewing and +pulpit, and has an excellent baptistry, vestry, large schoolroom, +and apparatus for warming and lighting. There are three +front entrances with lobbies, two communicating by staircases +with the gallery, and the centre one with the body of the +building. There are also two side entrances; and three +handsome lamp-posts adorn the frontage. It must have been +heart-breaking to be the instrument of rearing such an edifice, +and so soon to be compelled to relinquish it. For some time +past the Incumbent of St. Stephen’s has been using the +spacious schoolroom underneath the ground-floor of the chapel for +a day-school.</p> +<h3>THE WORKHOUSE CHAPEL.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Divine Service</span> is held at the +Kensington Workhouse, for the inmates, on Sundays, at 9.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 3 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> At present there are no other +services; but a new code is now being introduced which will +effect a very desirable change in this respect. At a recent +meeting of the Guardians, the “Visiting Committee” +made the following report and recommendation to the Board: +“The Visiting Committee having in consideration the +resolutions passed by the Board on the 1st of February inst., and +having also considered the letter from the present Chaplain of +the 14th inst., in which he states his inability to devote a much +larger portion of his time than he has done for the last twenty +five years, resolve that it is desirable that the Chaplain of the +Workhouse and Infirmary give his whole time to the spiritual care +of the inmates in the same way as the clergyman of a parish, and +that, considering the numbers of this house and the work to be +done, the least salary should be 150<i>l.</i> per +annum.” This resolution is adopted by the Board, and +will henceforth be acted upon—an urgently necessary +improvement, although it may come to involve a further change in +the chaplaincy. The Rev. Dr. Frost, formerly of the +Kensington Grammar School, has held the appointment for a quarter +of a century. When he first began he had the spiritual care +of less than 150 inmates. The number gradually rose until +two years ago they amounted to 800. At the present time, +March, 1872, the house contains 760. It will be seen, +therefore, that the religious requirements of this large number +are quite beyond the provision made under the old system; and the +Guardians have acted under a strong sense of duty in bringing +about a thorough reformation. It was not until two years +ago, when the inmates were 800, that any increase of salary was +asked for on behalf of the Chaplain. Previous to that it +stood at 50<i>l.</i> per annum; since then it has reached +65<i>l.</i> Double this sum will enable a chaplain to give +a principal part of his working time to the objects of his +calling in the house, and to bring a more decisive moral +influence to bear upon the inmates. The paucity of +religious service in this workhouse up to this time can be looked +upon in no other light than a calamity; and may serve in some +measure to explain the fact that there are so many refractory and +misbehaved paupers taken hence to the magistrate at Hammersmith +for correction. We cannot but think there might have been, +there ought to have been, at least one week-night service +instituted long ago; and if the Guardians were not in a position +to pay for this, among the numerous clergy in Kensington some one +might have been found who would occasionally have taken duty +gratuitously. But we fear that up to the present time it +has occurred to few to reflect that the <i>souls</i> of inmates +required a fair amount of attention as well as their bodies.</p> +<h3>MISSION AND PREACHING ROOMS.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Little Charles-street Primitive Methodist +Rooms</span>.—Here, in a narrow street leading out of +Kensington-square southward, is a very humble +building—apparently a former dwelling house—converted +into what are termed “Little Charles-street Day and +Sunday-schools.” In the upper room the preachers of +the Primitive Methodist Connexion hold services on +Sundays—morning and evening—at eleven and half-past +six. The congregation averages about 40, <a +name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 62</span>and the +Sunday-school children number about 60.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Palace-avenue Room</span>.—This is a +large room sometimes used for other public purposes, at the rear +of the King’s Arms Hotel, High-street, Kensington. It +has lately been engaged on Sundays for religions worship and +preaching, on a professedly <i>unsectarian</i> principle. +Hours of service, eleven <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and +half-past six.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Shaftesbury Hall</span>.—At this +hall, situated at the end of the Portland-road, Notting-hill, a +mission preaching service is conducted on Sunday evenings at +seven, by Mr. William Winton, attached to the City Mission in +that district. Mr. Winton is an earnest man, and addresses +himself to the working classes of the Potteries and vicinity, and +generally has the hall, which will hold about 100, well filled at +his services.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Blechynden-street +Mission-school</span>.—Here are day and Sunday-schools for +the poor children of the Potteries, situated in the lowest part +of that poor district. It is a separate building, and +answers well its purpose. On Sundays, morning and +afternoon, there is school, with an average of 30 to 40 in +attendance, including infants. In the evening, at seven, +there is preaching by Mr. Norris, a missionary in that part, who +gathers a congregation of from 60 to 80. In the day-school, +there are about 120 scholars, boys and girls.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Golborne Hall</span>, <span +class="smcap">Golborne-road</span>.—This hall, situated in +the new Golborne-road, Upper Westbourne-park, is capable of +seating 200 people, and has been opened on Sundays for some +twelve months past for Divine Service. It was first engaged +for mission services by a clergyman of the Church of England, but +is now held by the Rev. Mr. Davis, a Nonconforming preacher, +formerly of the Kilburn-park Chapel. Here is something like +the nucleus of a society or church, professing to be +<i>unsectarian</i>. There is preaching at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 6.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> on Sundays, and at 7 on Tuesday +evenings, and the Sacrament is administered every first Sunday +evening in the month. All the seats are free, and the cause +is supported by voluntary weekly offerings. In the morning +the congregation contains but few adults; but in the evening it +reaches an average of 80 or 90. There is a Sunday-school, +with about forty scholars of both sexes in attendance.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Wesleyan Preaching-rooms</span>, <span +class="smcap">Silchester road</span>.—The Wesleyans +formerly carried on service in the Silchester-hall, which they +hired, but about six months ago adjourned to the present rooms, +upon the occasion of the purchase of the hall by the Roman +Catholics. Thus excluded from a very commodious place, the +present rooms, adjoining Silchester-villas, which are not +convenient, are only held temporarily, until a chapel or a better +place can be obtained, for funds to provide which an appeal is +now being made. There is a good Sunday-school attached, +with 300 children on the books, and an average attendance of 100 +in the morning and 200 in the afternoon. Between 30 and 40 +members compose the society, and the adult public services are +attended by numbers varying from 30 to 50 in the morning, and 50 +to 80 in the evenings. The “rooms” are included +in the Bayswater Wesleyan “Circuit,” and the +preaching is arranged for on the plan of that circuit, and +principally done by the “local,” with an occasional +visit from the itinerant preachers.</p> +<h3>CONVENTS.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The Convent of the Order of St. +Clare</span>.—A convent of this order of nuns, sometimes +termed <i>Clarisses</i>, but more commonly spoken of as the +“Poor Clares,” is planted on a fine site, near two +acres in extent, in Notting-hill. It comprises two blocks +of buildings, one more in the interior of the grounds, and the +other abutting upon the main, opposite to Edmund-terrace in the +Cornwall-road. Excepting this part, by which communication +with the outside world is kept up, through a low, strong, +cloistered doorway, the whole premises are enclosed within high +brick walls, and along the Ladbroke-grove-road the whole length, +from its junction with Cornwall road to that of +Blenheim-crescent. Entering by the low door in the +Cornwall-road, the visitor finds himself in a shaded vestibule or +hall, and having directly on his left the entrance of the convent +chapel. This chapel occupies only a small space, being +capable of containing, if filled, about fifty worshippers. +It is profusely decorated on all sides with images of the Virgin +and saints. It has a small altar, and on the right a +darkened sacristry. The most noticeable thing—the +thing mostly felt—is the profound silence reigning, which +the hushed movement of the priest, whose white surplice was just +visible in the gloom, only served to make more manifest. +The religious offices are performed by priests from the Catholic +Church of St. Mary’s, Bayswater. This order of nuns +was founded in 1212, by St. Clara—from whom it derives its +name—a native of Assisi, in Italy. She adopted the +rule of St. Francis in all its rigour, and her followers are +absolutely forbidden to have any possessions. There are +also other peculiarities in their rules, habit of dress, +&c. Those who enter by this door surrender all +ownership of earthly treasure, and doom themselves to perpetual +poverty; and in the end, on attaining the higher degree of +devotion, sever themselves from all contact with and even from +the sight of the outer world. In this convent at +Notting-hill there are at present about twenty nuns, who are +pretty equally divided into the two classes of +“Externals” and “Internals,” or, in other +words, into those who maintain subdued communications with beyond +the walls, <a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +63</span>and those who are strictly and unchangeably confined +within. Very little farther is or can be known of +them. The sisters work with their own hands, and, under the +direction of the Lady Superior, do all their domestic service +according to a prescribed order. Great strictness of +discipline is understood to prevail. On ringing at the low +door, which is darkened from its depth in the wall, the blind of +a small grated window was withdrawn, and a pair of lustrous dark +eyes peered through. Anon the door is softly opened; and, +in answer to a deferential inquiry as to whether it might be +practicable for an outsider to come and look within, the gentle +portress—then acting as such in her turn—promptly and +with a cheerful air gave permission to enter and see the +chapel. This nun carried herself so pleasantly, and +answered our queries so readily and agreeably, as almost to +ignore the impression so common on these occasions, of secret +restraint.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The Convent of the +Franciscans</span>.—This has been established in the +northern part of the Portobello-road, Notting-hill, about ten +years. It is a substantial brick structure, entered by +strong conventual doors, and sufficiently enclosed from the +profane world. We were politely admitted by the kind sister +who attended as portress, to whom we made known our object. +“Are you a Catholic?” she asked; “Yes,” +was the reply. But the quick-witted sister at once detected +the expression of countenance with which the answer was given, +and said, smilingly, “Ah, a Protestant +Catholic.” We readily accepted this position, and +were ushered into a neat waiting-room, pending consultation by +our guide with the “rev. mother,” apparently with the +view of clearing herself from all responsibility in the +matter. In about five minutes she returned with permission +for us to see the chapel. This we entered by what is termed +the door and chapel of the “Externals.” The +compartment is divided into three parts, the outer court, a small +chapel in itself appropriated for “Externals,” which +in this case means visitors, or such as may occasionally be +tarrying in the convent, but who are not really entered in the +order. The other part, which resembles the choir in an +ordinary church, is sacred to the sisters themselves. The +chancel divides the two, which has the altar and the usual +furniture, and in the background an effective fresco by Westlake, +portraying the “Annunciation” and +“Coronation” of the Virgin. This we were +allowed to approach; but when we made for the “Nuns’ +Choir” below, we were impulsively caught back, and told +that none “ever entered there” but the +“sisters” themselves. We apologised and +retired. There are now between twenty and thirty nuns at +this establishment, who appear to enjoy slightly more life than +their sisters the “Poor St. Clares.” In a +remote room a piano was being played, accompanying a clear, +strong voice; and the corridors and apartments through the +silence of which it rang were light and cheerful. The order +established here is not the <i>strictest</i> sect of St. +Francis. The “Poor Clares” are supposed to be +that; but the “Franciscans” correspond more with the +“Brethren of the Community,” who in the 14th century +insisted on mitigating the more austere rules of the +founder. Although the <i>recluse</i> life and the vow of +poverty are upon them, in practice the severity of these rules is +relaxed to meet, in some sort, the varying temperament of human +nature. Attached to the convent, at the next door, is a +school for poor children, called the “Saint +Elizabeth’s Home.” This is entirely managed by +the sisters, and contains at present 66 girls, ranging in age +from four to fourteen years. The religious ceremonies are +here also performed by priests from St. Mary’s, +Bayswater.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Joseph’s Home of the Little +Sisters</span>.—Of all the conventual establishments of the +Roman Catholics in West London this is in some respects the most +remarkable. It is situated exactly opposite the former +building in Portobello-road, a large brick edifice, giving one +the impression of a workhouse or hospital, and in fact not unlike +them in its objects. It has been founded about four years, +and subsists entirely upon voluntary charity. It is a home +for the aged and infirm poor of both sexes, and has at the +present time no less than 210 inmates. It is under the +management of the nuns of the place, known as the “Little +Sisters,” which may also be considered as a sect of the +order of St. Francis. The Franciscans were first called by +the saint <i>Fraterculi</i>, “Little Brethren,” in +token of their humility. For a like reason the +corresponding order of nuns take the appellation “Little +Sisters.” At this place they are foreigners, and of a +humble grade. In the former cases the sisters we saw were +English, and refined in their deportment and speech; in the +present they appeared of another class, but adapted to the work +they have to do. The “Rev. Mother,” who is the +“matron” of the place, came, with a meek young nun in +attendance, to converse with us. She was extremely +reticent, and inquisitive as to our motive, concerning which we +found it difficult to satisfy her. She, however, readily +conducted us through the place, the attendant nun following +closely. The chapel is large for a private one, and great +care and some expense have been bestowed upon the chancel, altar, +and little side chapels—devoted respectively to the Virgin +and St. Joseph. Several of the old people were sitting +about, saying their <i>Ave Marias</i>, and counting their beads, +and a young foreign priest knelt at the railings enclosing the +main altar. Perceiving us about to leave without bowing to +the altar, the “Rev. Mother,” who had already bowed, +turned and bowed again several times, as though in atonement for +our omission. The dormitories are large and airy, and +closely fitted up with beds down each side, having plain +patchwork counterpanes, made with charitable hands, all after the +same pattern. In a large room below many of the old men +were sitting about at leisure, reading books and newspapers, with +which charity accommodates them. In another large <a +name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 64</span>compartment +the old women were at tea, served up to them in good-sized +basins, with plain bread, and butter, if any, invisible. +They seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, and rose +politely as we passed through. The wards of the infirmary +presented the most affecting sight of all. The inmates here +were not numerous, and all—with one or two +exceptions—very old bedridden people, who appeared to be +dying from natural exhaustion in the ordinary course, and, as +some of them tearfully and hopefully said, in answer to our few +words of encouragement, “Waiting their change.” +There were more men than women; and two or three of the males +were about in middle life. One of these, the Matron told +us, had been in bed for twenty-five years. The +“Little Sisters” provide homes for the aged poor, +professedly “without distinction of religion;” +although, of course, all the internal arrangements are Roman +Catholic. They appeal for help to the public, and say they +accept “any contributions in money, food, clothing, +&c.” They have no funds for the maintenance of +the home but what is thus regularly supplied.</p> +<h3>NOTES.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Peter’s</span>, <span +class="smcap">Notting-hi ll</span>.—A second visit to this +church enabled us to hear a sermon preached by the respected +Vicar himself, the Rev. John Robbins, D.D. The text was +taken from 2 Tim. i. 12: ‘For I know whom I have +believed.’ The subject of the discourse was +<i>Faith</i>; and after a brief <i>exordium</i>, illustrating +that faith was man’s own act under the influence of Divine +grace, and improved by the exercise of a man’s own +faculties, the preacher proceeded to show that when God commands +us to believe, and when he is pleased to make our faith a +condition of salvation, it would seem that faith cannot be +“some magical and arbitrary something which suddenly falls +into the soul,” but a thing which in some measure depends +on ourselves. Faith, in all its stages and degrees, +“always” depended on the <i>will</i>. The +principle was illustrated by the experience of two persons +starting in life, each having a certain faith in justice and +honesty derived from early education—the one yields to the +temptations of evil, and the other resists, the result being that +the first loses all faith, whilst the other grows in it to +perfection—retaining “the moral ideal and will” +to a “high and happy development.” Each of +these characters is responsible for the degree of his faith, that +“depending on the action of his own will.” +Faith, then, was strengthened by fidelity; and he would say to +them, “Live for holiness, truth, justice, the good, the +beautiful, the true, and then they would surely believe that they +were not mere cold abstractions of theology, but the most real of +all things! Let them now go to the very core of religious +faith. If the Gospel told them to believe in Jesus Christ, +was it not that Jesus Christ is truth, was holiness, love, living +and incarnate? The more they followed him the more they +would believe in him. For instance, there is one who as yet +sees in Jesus a mere man, but his doctrine attracts and seems of +a beauty incomparable. He would not like to pass for a man +without faith, yet when he analysed his faith he found that it +reduced itself to a mere belief in Christ’s moral +teaching. That was very little, said some of them. +But he was not one to despise little beginnings. Let him +act up to his faith, and strive to conform his own life to the +sublimity of Christ’s morality, and keep that object +courageously and unflinchingly in view, and he would not need to +continue this long before he would be forced to admit that he was +very far from his end, and that the holiness of Christ’s +life completely and utterly transcends the natural strength of +mere humanity. It would not then require a great effort in +him to believe that the Scripture speaks truly when it speaks of +the fall of man and the slavery of sin. He would defy him +to examine his state long before a voice from the depths of his +own heart told him that he too needed pardon. Following +this it would bring him to the foot of the cross, and then, +casting a glance of holy self-abnegation (which was faith in her +truest aspect), he would gratefully adore the divine wisdom which +was able to reconcile on the cross, justice and mercy; and, +ravished by a pardon which alone could satisfy the conscience, he +would rise the redeemed of the Lord, and able to say with St. +Paul, ‘I know in whom I have believed.’” +After some further discriminating views as to the possible +variations in human experience in the attainment of saving faith, +the preacher concluded with a pointed application of the truth to +his hearers, the sermon lasting about forty minutes. As a +preacher, Dr. Robbins is earnest and intelligent. He uses +his MS., but does so freely, without apparently being trammelled +by it. As we before remarked upon his excellent reading of +the Scriptures, we can now record a similar view of his pulpit +work. His manner is natural and impressive, and his style +fresh; whilst there is evident painstaking to think out a subject +for his audience, and to enable them to follow him along the +course of his argument. His congregation is large, and, in +appearance, of the more wealthy and educated classes; and his +mode of teaching the experience of true faith as above was +probably an adaptation to the mental habitude and circumstances +of his hearers. We can conceive a different class of +audience whom Dr. Robbins would soon discover to require quite +another way of putting the process of religious experience. +But it is surely a great part of the wisdom of the Christian +teacher to find out the readiest line by which those to whom he +is ministering can be led to Christ. Yet, the impression is +probably correct that the Rev. Doctor is in theology of the +“Broad Church School.”</p> +<p><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 65</span><span +class="smcap">The Pro-Cathedral</span>, <span +class="smcap">Kensington</span>.—At the time of our former +sketch of this place, the principal preacher did not occupy the +pulpit, and we therefore now append a note on Monsignor Capel, +who is unquestionably a leading attraction at the +Pro-Cathedral. This rev. father appears about forty years +of age, and may be said to be very superior in everything as a +preacher, except that in which, after all, we must conclude it is +of the highest moment that a preacher should attain +perfection—viz., the Gospel. To say that he does not +preach the Gospel would not be quite correct; but there is just +so much that is not the Gospel intermingling in his discourses, +that we much fear that in many the good wheat must be choked by +the tares. As a divine, he is, of course, framed upon the +Roman Catholic system of theology—and all that can be said +is that his preaching does not illustrate the peculiarities of +Popery more strongly than the fundamental truths of the Christian +religion. To a cultivated theological ear the latter will +form the staple of his discourses, and the former the colouring +incidents. And they are there in sufficient degree to show +that Monsignor Capel studiously identifies all the errors of +Romanism with the Gospel—enough to a decided Protestant ear +to mar the better effect of his eloquence. To hear him +makes one grieve that such elocutionary powers as he manifestly +possesses are not confined altogether to the illustration of +those great verities of the Gospel upon which he often descants +with feeling and power. But he is trammelled by Romish +dogma and tradition. It is impossible to deny that +Monsignor Capel is an orator of no mean order. We have +heard greater pulpit orators certainly, but seldom one who, upon +the whole, has been more pleasing in his own style. He has +not only the natural gift of voice and manner, but he has +culture, which together, if he were in any other than the Roman +Catholic Church, would probably open his way to extensive +influence. He is now, however, ministering to a +congregation of four or five hundred in the morning, and six or +seven in the evening, in great measure of a very miscellaneous +and unsettled character. He preaches quite extempore; but +such is the order maintained throughout his discourse, and such +the flow of appropriate language, that an idea of the most +careful preparation is conveyed to the hearer. We are +creditably informed by those who know the habits of the rev. +gentleman that he is a very hard worker; that, in fact, he works +“night and day” at sermonising; hence no doubt the +freshness and general excellence of his pulpit orations. +Such harmonious arrangement of thought, with such general +felicity of diction, continued, as a rule, for from forty-five +minutes to an hour, can only come of mental labour in the +study. The discourse we heard was from the words “The +Prince of Peace,” being the morning of Christmas-eve. +After an appropriate introduction, the preacher proceeded to +enlarge on the following topics: I. Christ was the only source of +that principle on which peace could be obtained by man. +Under this head the enmity between God and man, by reason of +original sin, and reconciliation by the atoning death of Christ +were topics fully brought out; and an affecting appeal was made +to the congregation on the “vanity” of seeking peace +in earthly or conventional sources without coming to the +cross. II. Christ was the sole undivided object of our +affections, and as such was the centre of, the Prince of Peace to +his people. Here the ways in which the Saviour seeks to win +the affections of his people were treated—even, the +preacher said, to the “multiplying himself upon our +altars.” In view of such tokens of condescending +love, the uncharitableness of Christians, and their frequent +cynical criticisms on their fellow-Christians, “even from +the Pope down to the peasant,” were sharply rebuked, and +the habitual imitation of Christ’s own love and tenderness +enforced: for thus were all men to know that they were his +disciples—that they “loved one another.” +III. Christ was the Prince of Peace in that he prescribes the +rule by which we are to follow peace. We must submit to his +authority in this; and this authority he had placed in his +Church. Many sought it outside the Church, in pursuing +their own fancies, or the opinions of other men; but to them +there was no peace. And even within the Church, although +“the great body of Catholics held the truth,” yet +there was a vast amount of perverseness with some, and a sad +tendency to follow their private judgment, or the teaching of +some preacher or order, rather than the directions of the +Church. But the Church alone had authority to teach, and if +we would have peace of soul we must be ruled by those fundamental +laws of authority reposed in her. She taught that the royal +road to peace was by the Cross. The crown of thorns must be +upon our heads. “There must be bodily mortification +as well as interior mortification.” He advised them +to try a week of mortification—willingly to take up their +cross—they would then see if peace would not follow. +With this they were to connect prayer; <i>prayer</i>, and not +<i>vain repetitions</i>. They were to struggle as earnestly +for this divine peace as they had often done for some earthly +object. These views were expanded and applied with great +force of language and facility of illustration, together with a +pathos in appeal which led one to lament that it had not a +sounder basis of biblical teaching to rest upon. But Romish +dogmas and discipline were often put in the place of the free and +open word of God, and bodily exercise in the place of penitent +faith unto salvation. Then as to all the eloquence, the +fine, flowing sentences, the vocal modulations, we were inclined +to ask, “<i>Cui bono</i>?” It seemed after all +but beating the air—a strange confusion of Bible truth and +man’s inventions and conceits; as distinct from sound +reason as from sound doctrine.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Mark’s</span>, <span +class="smcap">Notting-hill</span>.—Since our first article +on this church we have availed ourselves of a second visit. +The Rev. E. K. Kendall, the vicar, of whose usual ministry we had +heard very favourable accounts, preached the sermon. Being +<a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 66</span>the first +Sunday after Epiphany, the rev. gentleman took his text from Luke +ii. and 51st, “And he went down with them and came to +Nazareth, and was subject unto them.” The preacher +had on the previous day discoursed on the visit of the Magi to +the infant Saviour, and remarked upon the <i>humility</i> of +these learned men in the presence of the Babe of Bethlehem. +He now passed to the still greater example of humility, presented +in the life and conduct of the Redeemer himself, who dwelt at +Nazareth in humble subjection to his parents, and visibly grew in +wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. His +mother, the lowliest of saints, might well think of these things, +and wonder at the strange dealings of Providence which led her to +exaltation by such a way of humility. The present season +was full of the same teaching—viz., that “Before +honour is humility.” There was not only the lowly +mother called “Blessed” because the Most High had +done great things for her; not only the humble wise men, laying +aside the pride of human learning before the great mystery of +Godliness, but there was the still more wonderful abasement of +Him who is the Son of God, but still emptied himself of his glory +and took on him the form of a servant, made in the likeness of +man, and prepared for his Divine work by the life of simple +obedience in the carpenter’s home in despised +Nazareth. Strange it may seem to us—strange in this +nineteenth century, that humility should be thus set before us as +pre-eminently a Christian grace, and that the title and admission +to the blessings of the Christian covenant should be still +declared, “Except ye be converted and become as little +children, ye shall in no case enter the kingdom of +heaven.” “Be ye clothed with +humility.” The saints in all ages had learned as a +first lesson on entering the Divine Presence, that the only +seemly attitude of a sinner is one of self-abasement. He +would not have them to think that the religion of Christ was one +suitable only for a world in its infancy and not in its manhood, +as some in their pride taught; and therefore he would enforce the +absolute necessity of all being clothed in the same humble +garment. The language of Scripture was undeniable in its +inculcation of a teachable and childlike spirit. The Old +Testament was as clear upon this point as the New, both alike +insisting on the duty of obedience not only in a child, but in a +man, and this not only to the ordinance and revelation of God, +but even for the Lord’s sake to the ordinance of man. +Ambition as such was in every one condemned. It is the duty +of man to use and not abuse the powers and gifts which come from +God; and if he thus becomes great as the world reckons greatness, +it is only because God has given him the power, and the +responsibility of using that power well. But those who +measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves among +themselves were not wise. Christianity may be summed up in +three words, Repentance, Faith, Obedience, and each of those +implies that the man is humble—humble for his own faults, +which abase him in dust and ashes; humble as to his own +understanding, submitting to believe that which he cannot see; +humble as to his own judgment—even in practical matters +content to obey rather than behave as may best suit his own +notions or convenience. Was it not so, that this humility +many would consider somewhat out of date. True a man of +extreme self-assertion was apt to wound the pride of his +neighbours, and so come to be despised, especially if his +pretence were without solid qualities to back it. But did +we on the whole esteem and admire those who are humble-minded; +were we not too apt to judge as if such a quality were a sign of +weakness in its possessor? Or that, however lovely it might +appear, it is not one of those virtues which ordinary men can +afford to cultivate, but rather as a hothouse plant or tender +exotic; too frail to stand the rough blasts of the world? +Were there not tendencies ahead which seem to show that humility +is thought by some a virtue which might beseem the babyhood of +civilisation; but that it is ours to practice a mode of thinking +and acting natural to its manhood? Repentance well enough +if it only meant living by experience of the past; faith well +enough for those devoid of critical faculties, but certainly not +to be exacted for any dogmas or doctrines even from the +unlearned, who should be left free to their own opinions; +obedience well enough as a thing to be claimed so far as society +may agree to lay down certain rules for its own protection or +benefit, to which all citizens must submit as a matter simply of +mutual convenience, not at all as a matter of duty. He (the +preacher) did not exaggerate when he said that such were the evil +tendencies which seemed to him to be at work among us, contrary +alike to the principles of true religion and true wisdom, +repeating in a form suited to our own day the first temptation of +our first parents in Eden. Were they not reminded of the +saying of Scripture—that in the last days “perilous +times should come; for men shall be lovers of their own selves, +covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, +unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, +false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are +good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than +lovers of God, having the form of Godliness, but denying the +power thereof.” He thought the lessons of the +Nativity and Epiphany came as a very wholesome corrective to +these tendencies. The preacher went on to show that the +causes of this want of humility were that God was forgotten, and +self-abasing views of his holiness were, therefore, not obtained; +and that men lost sight of the fact that this humility was a +Divine grace, and insisted that it was not to be looked on as +littleness, want of enterprise or subtle resource, and certainly +not a want of power, and that the greatest of men have been most +noted for humility. A very effective <a +name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 67</span>sermon on the +subject was brought to a close by a pointed and affectionate +application of the truth, that this humility can alone lead us to +true dignity and peace. As a preacher, Mr. Kendall +possesses a style of simple and engaging eloquence, with a clear +utterance, one under which it is next to impossible to be +inattentive. Though advantage is taken of the M.S., the +sermon is nevertheless <i>preached</i>, and that with +considerable expression of manner. Indeed, we are glad to +observe the old style of simply <i>reading</i> over sermons in a +perfunctory manner passing out of sight; and Mr. Kendall is a +good example of the happy change. The sermon was not too +long or too short but struck the medium well, at the point of +thirty-five minutes. We were pleased in this case with the +fine effect of a good pulpit to preach from. St. +Mark’s is one of the best pulpits we have seen, being of +noble proportions and commanding, and is a good setting for any +preacher who may occupy it. This is no small matter in +church architecture.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Augustine’s</span>, <span +class="smcap">South Kensington</span>.—The church of this +name, since our former notice, has removed from the temporary +iron building then used, to the permanent structure in +Queen’s gate. This was opened in an incomplete +condition in September last, the works of the exterior not being +finished and the chancel not built. In consequence of these +circumstances the Bishop of London declined to consecrate it, and +service is carried on in the nave. The edifice, when all +complete, will have cost about 18,000<i>l.</i>, more than +one-half of which has yet to be raised. The building of the +chancel is therefore delayed, upon which we understand the Vicar, +Mr. Chope, is intending to expend a large sum. Meanwhile, a +space is appropriated for a chancel and choir out of the nave, +and under what is to be the chancel-arch. The architect, +Mr. Butterfield, has produced thus far an elegant interior, +combined with strength. Six beautiful columns of alternate +blocks of Bath stone and Portland divide the nave on each side +from the aisles, and support an equal number of imposing Gothic +arcades in Bath-stone, and clerestory of variegated +brickwork. The windows of the clerestory are numerous, and +form the only medium of light and ventilation. The west +front exterior is in the Decorated style, built of red and +straw-coloured brick, with Bath-stone dressings. A +principal feature is the <i>window tracery</i>, which is +elaborately carried out. The style of the worship is +precisely as in the former place, only we do not observe the same +<i>punctilio</i> in separating the male and female portion of the +audience. At every repeat of the <i>Gloria Patri</i>, the +clergy and choristers turn their backs to the people; the +intoning was done, in the purest Gregorian tone, by the Vicar +himself, and the Litany was chanted by one of the curates, +kneeling in front of the altar with his back to the +congregation. As an instance of the effect of the +Ritualistic style on the minds of persons brought up in the plain +Christian worship of the Church of England, we may mention that +at one part of the service, a gentleman, evidently a stranger +from the country, turned and observed to us inquiringly, “I +suppose this <i>is</i> a Church of England Church, is it not, +Sir?” He was clearly in perplexity upon the subject, +and after he received our answer he looked on with growing +astonishment through the whole service. The sermon was +preached by a visiting clergyman; who possessed a very good +voice, but which, from some unfortunate peculiarity in its use, +did not succeed in conveying to us at the other end of the church +one single intelligible sentence. Apart from sundry not +unmusical modulations—alternating with whispers—the +whole was a blank even to our somewhat practised ear. The +church has very grave acoustic defects, or the preacher equally +grave defects in the management of his vocal organ. +Accommodation is here provided for 1,000 persons. At the +opening service it is recounted by persons present that the +celebrant at the communion, at the close of the service, in +presence of the people, drank up all the wine that remained, +completely turning the chalice bottom upwards, and ate all the +bread with scrupulous care. There is a large metal crucifix +fixed upon a block on the altar. What is the real +difference between this and its standing on the altar +itself? It is in “apparent connection with the +altar,” and the vicar must know that this is a +contravention of the law. Two huge candle-sticks with +candles are upon the altar, and occasionally lit at times +“when not wanted for the purpose of giving +light.” This also is a thing not allowed. Mr. +Willis is building an organ for this church at a cost of +1,000<i>l.</i>, towards which not 300<i>l.</i> has yet been +promised. Services—Sunday, Communion at 8 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>; matins, Litany, and sermon at 11 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>; second celebration at 12.30 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span>; evensong and sermon at 7 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> Week-day matins at 10 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>; evensong at 3 <span +class="smcap">p.m.</span> Saints’ days and Thursdays, +at 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, Holy Communion. Full +choral service on Sundays and the greater holy days. +Christmas-day, choral <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, and carols +at midnight.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Matthias</span>, <span +class="smcap">West Brompton</span>.—The nave of this church +is now being built, apparently in the same style as that of St. +Augustine. Meanwhile, the temporary structure is used +within the outer building shell. Mr. Haines, since our +former notice, has not failed to refine Romewards upon his even +then notorious Ritualism. Some of his immediate neighbours, +who occasionally attend his place, have expressed astonishment at +his progress. At the celebration of the Eucharist after a +Sunday morning service we ourselves observed that it was +difficult in reality to distinguish it from High Mass at the +Pro-Cathedral or the Oratory. There were three priests at +the altar, with their backs to the audience, mysteriously +manipulating the elements, crossing and recrossing each other, in +frequent change of place, bowing each time to the centre, +alternately kneeling and rising together, breaking the dumb +motions with an occasional priestly murmur, given in exact +imitation of the Low Latin monotone of a Romish priest, all +varied now and then <a name="page68"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +68</span>with a few stains in solo or chorus from the choir, +which was in full force, apparently emulating the Mass music of +other places. All this in the dim light of a shaded +chancel, with three sevens of candles burning on altar, flanked +by two tall ones on the right and left—twenty-three candles +in all—with sundry other movements of symbolical design, +and we have the St. Matthias representation of the Mass. +The congregation was a full one for a Communion Service; but in +the main composed of young persons, many of whom appeared to be +present from curiosity or in the capacity of catechumens.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Paul’s +Onslow-square</span>.—On a second visit we had the +opportunity of hearing the Rev. C. Molyneaux, vicar. Having +heard of his fame as an eloquent and Evangelical minister, we +were anxious that the “Index” should not go forth in +its separate form without a note which seemed necessary to +complete our former account. Our impression on hearing Mr. +Molyneaux was that public report concerning him, had +“nothing exaggerated,” nor “set down aught in +malice.” And, indeed, it is noteworthy that the +general impression created concerning a minister is seldom far +from the truth as to prevailing characteristics, although it may +often be amenable to correction on those finer points which +require experience and trained appreciation to estimate. +Mr. Molyneaux’s voice is moderately strong only, but his +utterance is distinct, and therefore he can be well heard in +every part of the church. He preaches <i>extempore</i>; but +has so well prepared his theme, that his thoughts and language +flow evenly and briskly on without hindrance or incumbrance to +the end. We can truly say that we have never listened to a +minister without a MS. with more of that pleasureable sense which +arises from the feeling that he who is addressing us is perfectly +free from embarrassment. Nothing troubles a hearer more +than to feel that the preacher has not thoroughly mastered his +subject, and therefore is liable at every step to mental +perturbation. We can safely promise any who go to worship +at St. Paul’s and to hear the Rev. Capel Molyneaux the most +complete immunity from any such infliction. The address is +intelligible to every one, the eloquence is of that home-speaking +kind which is most likely to find its way to the heart, and, +doubtless, it does reach to the hearts of many; whilst the +teaching is in the main of that unmistakable Gospel kind which +enlightens without mystifying. Mr. Molyneaux is at the +antipodes from those “priests” who are oft in +preaching up the “Church,” the “Clergy,” +the “Altar,” much as though they were afraid people +would forget their own professional importance. In the +ministry at St. Paul’s all this essential emptiness is +scattered to the winds. The great themes are Christ +himself, his redemption for man, his glory, and the future of his +faithful people. On the latter subject the rev. gentleman +discoursed on the day in question—“And I John saw the +holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, +prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Rev. xxi. +2.) The preacher opened with expressions of gratitude that +the new Lectionary had enabled them that day, for the first time +in the history of their Church, to read under authority from the +book of Revelation. It was to him (the preacher) a +remarkable and somewhat discreditable fact that the use of a book +of Scripture into which the Holy Spirit had introduced words of +special blessing had been, though not intentionally, yet +virtually ignored and proscribed in the public service of the +Church. He intended to take advantage of the happy change +now brought about to expound to the congregation the heavenly +teaching of that important book. In everything that Mr. +Molyneaux said about the general blissful prospects of the +faithful every mind would gratefully concur; but even this +excellent minister is not without his peculiarities. If men +<i>will</i> have peculiarities of doctrinal views, we had rather +far that they refer to the future than to the past, because here +men can indulge their fancy with an innocence which they cannot +when they take liberty with the accomplished and recorded facts +of Bible history. Prophecy offers a wide scope for the +imagination to play in; and Mr. Molyneaux has lively imagination, +and gives it a bold flight in dealing with the mystical +book. It was apparent enough that the preacher was a +<i>Millennarian</i>; no doubt conscientiously so. First, he +considered the City itself; secondly, its relations to this +earth; and thirdly, the general religious purpose and utility of +such a revelation. The preacher declaimed warmly against +the “Spiritualists,” who explain everything in a +spiritual sense only. This city was “no +shadow,” “no myth,” but “a real +city,” “a locality,” “a glorious +habitation.” True there were figurative expressions +in describing its “foundations, walls of precious stones, +gates,” &c., but all this must represent +something. It indicated a reality, or else we were led +astray from beginning to end. This was evident +enough. But it was not quite so plain to our understanding +when speaking of the relations of this city to earth, the +preacher represented it as coming literally down to a position +“contiguous” to earth, and there being situated with +Christ the King and Ruler in it; and, by excessive glory, giving +light to the saved nations of the earth, which (the earth) it was +emphatically declared would “never be destroyed,” but +would continue “for ever and ever.” This +descent of the city was to be the salvation of “the +nations” then living; and Israel occupying the foremost +place. It was an error to suppose that the nations of the +earth would ever be converted by the preaching of the Gospel, or +that there would be anything different to what we witness now, +before that great event. No nation ever had been, no nation +as such ever would be, converted until then. The conversion +of individuals would go on, and many now in sin may be and would +be converted. But nothing beyond this. We confess to +feeling a great deal of prophetic confusion under this teaching, +because whilst the rev. gentleman was rapidly, and with some +appearance of appositeness, quoting passages in <a +name="page69"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 69</span>proof his +opinions, our mind instinctively reverted to other portions of +Scripture which he did not refer to or attempt to explain. +But this, perhaps, he will do on some future occasion. Thus +one could not but think of the 11th verse of the 20th chapter, on +the subject of the earth’s abiding—“And I saw a +great white Throne and Him that sat upon it: from whose face the +earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for +them”—and in the very verse preceding the +preacher’s text—“And I saw a new heaven and a +new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed +away; and there was no more sea.” It seemed to us a +very heavy draw upon the imagination to ask us to believe that +the descent of the city was to be a literal fact, without +believing the context entitled to a literal accomplishment. +But as our object is not polemical we cannot pursue, if we +sometimes permit ourselves to suggest controversy. In +conclusion we may say, notwithstanding some divergence of view in +minor matters, how much we esteem the Rev. C. Molyneux as an able +and earnest minister on all essential themes of the New +Testament, and admire him for his sharply-defined Evangelical +type; and as to vestment, declining to change the colour of his +pulpit garb from black to white, although advised by the +bishops. If men think there is anything of principle at the +bottom of the vestment controversy, they ought certainly to be +decided and unflinching on the side they conscientiously +take. But Mr. Molyneux as a Premillennialist is quite +another question; and we may be excused for expressing a serious +doubt as to the possibility of maintaining the Chiliast theories +on Scriptural grounds.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Kensington Palace Chapel</span>.—The +palace is always associated with Kensington, being in the very +heart of the parish, although strictly speaking not belonging to +the parish. It is this which gives to Kensington the +distinction of the “Court suburbs,” although by some +ancient eccentricity of events it is really situated in the +parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. Yet it comes properly +within our province to notice it here, as far as the +“Chapel Royal” is concerned, included in the familiar +red brick pile spoken of as Kensington Palace. It will +probably be known to most readers that William III. was the first +Royal proprietor and resident of the palace. In the various +alterations that monarch effected, he took care to impress upon +the building the plain Dutch style; so that if we may attribute +to him the existing chapel before it was used as such first in +1834, there is no ground for surprise at its extremely primitive +and unpretending character. It was the character of the man +who breathed his last within those walls. William was not +one with a passion for magnificent palaces; but was as happy and +content as his nature would allow in this place in society with +his beloved Mary, whose death he lamented with the modest remark, +“<i>I cannot but grieve</i>, <i>since I have lost a wife +who</i>, <i>during my marriage</i>, <i>has never been guilty of a +single indiscretion</i>.” Queen Anne, both beloved +and adored by her subjects, Prince George of Denmark, were much +at this palace; also the two first Georges and Queen Caroline, +who herself effected most of the improvements in the Royal +residence. It is impossible that we should forget to note +in our day, that here her present Majesty passed her early days, +and here too she held her first council on acceding to the +throne. In taking a seat in this little chapel, it is +difficult to repress, even for higher considerations, a multitude +of thoughts which gather around our modern English history. +It has nothing of architectural beauty to boast of, being nothing +more nor less than a loft apartment in the palace set apart for +Divine service. The ceiling is heavily ribbed and panelled, +the walls simply distempered, and the three arched openings to +the west answer, without the slightest ornament, the sole useful +purpose of admitting the light. A dado all round forms a +back to the high square pewing, and the communion table, which is +fixed, without any ecclesiastical reference, at the south +end. There is a simple prayer-desk on the east, and a high +pulpit on the west side, in which, in consequence of +disproportion to the entire space, the preacher is well nigh lost +to view. The north end is occupied by the Royal pew, +elevated considerably above the rest, and screened by crimson +curtains. The body of the chapel is filled with about forty +chairs. Any strangers, or people from without, are here +accommodated, whilst the servants and other members of the +household occupy the tall pews which run parallel with the +walls—there being in all 71 seats. The singing is +assisted by a harmonium, the young lady performer on which is not +cheered with much vocal companionship. The instrument was +presented by Queen Victoria. The communion plate is marked +with the initials and arms of William III., Queen Anne, and +George II. Worship is here conducted in a simple, homely +manner; and the Rev. W. T. Bullock, the Chaplain, is a minister +that has to content himself with that, and appears to have no +disposition to go beyond. His sermon, however, struck us as +being more elaborate than necessary to the audience then present; +but it must be remembered that he often has to address royal +personages from that high pulpit. The Princess Mary +Adelaide of Teck, her circle and royal visitors, sometimes step +into the high pew, and the minister is put upon his best efforts, +and to be always ready is to be on the safe side. On Sunday +there is a short household service at 8.30 <span +class="smcap">a.m.</span>; full service, with sermon, at 11.15; +evening prayer, without sermon, at 3.30; singing practice at 4 +<span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Family prayer every morning +at 8.30. Holy communion first Sunday in the month.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Matthias, Warwick Road</span>, <span +class="smcap">West Brompton</span>.—This church is now near +completion. The nave and aisles are built, and the flooring +laid down. It is Early English in style, the arcades and +columns and lofty roof, with the distant stained window of the +chancel, producing a pleasing, though quiet, effect. The +interior is everything here, the exterior is very plain, the +lancet windows alone defining the structure. There is no +entrance from the west and principal front, and the public +approach to the church is only by two doors—one on the +north, and the other on the south side; an arrangement approved +of by the Incumbent as one <a name="page70"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 70</span>to prevent the gathering of idle +persons around the entrance from the main road, and so securing +greater quiet in the services. The building is calculated +to accommodate, on one floor, 1000 persons, and upon special +occasions 1200 might find place in it. It is built after +the designs of Mr. J. H. Hakewill, of South Molton Street, by +Messrs. R. Avis and Co., of Baltic Wharf, Putney. In our +former account we referred to the very superior organ with which +this church is furnished, built by Mr. Henry Jones, of the Fulham +Road. We are pleased now to be able to give a complete +description of this fine instrument.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Description of the Organ in St. +Matthias’ Church</span>, <span class="smcap">Warwick +Road</span>, <span class="smcap">Kensington</span>.—This +Organ has 3 Manuals, compass of each CC to C, 61 notes, and an +independent Pedal Organ, compass CCC to F, 30 notes. The +Stops are arranged as under:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="5"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Great Organ</span>, CC to C, 61 notes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Compass.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Pitch.<br /> +(Feet)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Pipes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bourdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>2.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Open Diapason</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rohe Flöte</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>4.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gamba</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 49</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>5.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Flute Harmonique</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>6.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Octave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>7.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Flute Harmonique</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>8.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Octave Quint</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2⅔</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>9.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Super octave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>10.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Mixture (4 ranks)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">various</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 214</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>11.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Trumpet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>12.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Clarion</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">903</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Swell Organ</span>, CC to C, 61 notes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>13.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bourdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>14.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Open Diapason</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>15.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Salicional</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 49</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>16.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lieblich Gedact</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>17.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Octave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>18.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Flute Harmonique</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>19.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Super octave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>20.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixture (3 ranks)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">various</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 183</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>21.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Horn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">„ 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>22.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Oboe</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 49</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>23.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Clarion</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">769</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Choir Organ</span>, CC to C, 61 notes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>24.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Geigen Principal</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>25.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Dulciana</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>26.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lieblich Gedact</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>27.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Flauto Traverso</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>28.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Flautina</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 61</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>29.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Keranlophon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">metal 49</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>30.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Clarionet</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">C</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 49</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">403</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Pedal Organ</span>, CCC to F, 30 notes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>31.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Bass</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CCC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>32.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sub-Bass</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CCC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">wood 30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>33.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Violoncello</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CCC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,, 30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>34.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Trombone</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">CCC</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">[wood and metal] 30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="5"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Accessories</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>35.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>Coupler.—Swell to Great Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>36.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>,, Swell to Choir Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>37.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>,, Swell to Pedals.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>38.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>,, Great Organ to Pedals.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>39.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>,, Choir to Pedals</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>40.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p>,, Choir to Great Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Summary</span>.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Stops.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Pipes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Great Organ</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">903</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Swell ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">769</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Choir ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">403</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pedal ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">120</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Couplers</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Total</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">40</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2195</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Composition +Pedals</span>, <span class="smcap">&c. &c.</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Act upon the Great Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>5th, 6th, and 7th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Act upon the Swell Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>8th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Ventil to Great Organ.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>9th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tremulant to Swell.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>10th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Swell Pedal.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>11th</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Organ to Pedals.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Jude’s</span>, <span +class="smcap">South Kensington</span>.—Since our earlier +article on this church was printed, some slight changes have +taken place in the service,—the most conspicuous of which +is the adoption by the Vicar in deference to the view taken of +the question by the Bishops, of the surplice in the pulpit. +The Rev. R. W. Forrest, however, has not changed the tone of his +preaching, if he has seen fit to change in the matter of +vestment. He is still evangelically effective, and does not +appear to have diminished the number of his friends by the +incident. Not, however, that it has passed without remark; +but no one suspects Mr. Forrest of general Ritualistic +designs. By the kindness of the Architects, the Messrs. +Godwin, of Brompton, we are enabled to produce an excellent view +of the interior of this fine church, and also a view of the +exterior, as it will be when, as we hope, not long hence, the +tower and the spire will be completed.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The Swedenborgian Church at +Kensington</span>.—The chapel in the Mall, Kensington, +which had been successively a sphere for the ministration of the +Rev. Mr. Offord, and the Rev. Dr. Schwartz, but purchased by a +gentleman in the North of England, redecorated, and endowed with +an income of 300<i>l.</i> a year, for the use of the +Swedenborgian or New Jerusalem Church. The pastor is the +Rev. Dr. Bayley, of Argyle Square, and the dedication festival +took place on Thursday afternoon, the 21st of March, 1872. +The ceremonies consisted of a service in the church, conducted by +the Rev. Dr. Bayley, Rev. Dr. Tafel, and Rev. W. Bruce, a +tea-meeting, and the annual gathering of the New Church +Association, when an excellent selection of vocal music was +performed. Large numbers were present on each +occasion. The chapel has been entirely refitted at +considerable cost, and is now seated for nine hundred. +There are two handsome octagon pulpits, one on each side of the +communion, and built of a mixture of very rare South American +wood and Japanese elm, the panels being elaborately and +tastefully carved. The communion-table is of the same +material, and also the font, which is octagon, and has a basin of +solid silver. The chapel has a good organ, by Wadsworth, of +Manchester. The whole of the improvements have been most +tastefully executed by the Messrs. Dove Brothers, of +Islington.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The Presbyterian Church</span>.—This +congregation, formerly meeting in the above chapel, still carry +on service in the Mall Hall very near to it, but the Presbytery +are assisting it to acquire a new <a name="page71"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 71</span>and commodious church, and delay is +mainly occasioned by the great difficulty experienced in +procuring a suitable site for the building. It is, however, +not improbable that a site will open in the Kensington Park Road, +northward, than which a more important one could scarcely be +selected.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The Surplice in the Pulpit</span>.—A +conference of clergy and laity was held on Wednesday, January 24, +1872, at Exeter Hall, to consider the Bishop of London’s +recommendation in his recent charge, that clergymen should wear +the surplice in the pulpit. The points to be discussed had +previously been submitted by circular to 1,250 Evangelical +Churchmen. On the motion of the Rev. J. C. Ryle, the +following resolutions were adopted, with four dissentients: 1. +“That the general adoption of the surplice as the pulpit +dress, before the legality of such dress is duly established by +law, is highly inexpedient, inasmuch as it is a departure from +long established usage, is contrary to the recommendation of the +Ritual Commissioners, and is not desired by the laity; and +furthermore is likely to give grave offence to many +congregations, and to disturb the peace of the +church.” 2. “That this resolution be signed by +the chairman, and embodied in a memorial, on behalf of the +conference and the bodies represented in it, to be forwarded to +the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and made public in any +way the Council of the Church Association and the Committee of +the Clerical and Lay Union may think best.” In the +course of the discussion, the Rev. Capel Molyneux, Vicar of St. +Paul’s, Onslow-square, South Kensington, said that he would +never consent to be inveigled by the bishops into giving up first +one thing and then another merely to please the Ritualistic +Romanisers in the Church. The surplice was the badge of +priestcraft, and he thanked God he was not a priest. (A +Voice: What are you, then?) He had always preached in his +gown, and he would continue to do so until the end. He +would urge all Evangelicals never to preach in a surplice, but to +let the black gown be a badge of those who faithfully preach +Christ. The Rev. J. C. Ryle, the Rev. Mr. Money, &c., +spoke in a similar strain, and expressed determination to resist +the suggested change of vestment to the end.</p> +<h2><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +72</span>ESSAYS.</h2> +<h3>A COMPARATIVE DENOMINATIONAL VIEW.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Of Established Churches</span> there are +25 in Kensington, giving 30,020 seats, or an average of 1250 +each; and of this number, 10,883, or rather more than one-third, +are free.</p> +<p>Of <span class="smcap">Nonconforming Chapels</span> and other +places, such as rooms or halls, 25, furnishing accommodation for +15,550, of which 5370 are free seats.</p> +<p>The <span class="smcap">Roman Catholics</span> have four +churches, which are the foremost of that persuasion in +London. The Pro-Cathedral provides 1100 seats, inclusive of +150 free; the Oratory 1200, 200 being free; the Church of the +Carmelite Friars 800, none free; and that of St. Francis 500, +none free.</p> +<p>There is one <span class="smcap">Non-Sectarian Church</span>, +the Talbot Tabernacle, with 800 sittings, 200 of them free; and +two Non-Sectarian Halls, with space together for 400.</p> +<p>The <span class="smcap">Followers of Swedenborg</span> have +one Chapel, with accommodation for 1000, no seats being +definitely free.</p> +<p>Thus it will be seen that all the denominations together +supply 49,070 seats, more than three-fifths of which are found by +the Church of England; 15,550 by Protestant Nonconformists; and +the remainder 3500 by Roman Catholics.</p> +<p>The numbers allotted to English Nonconformity stand as +follows:—<i>Baptists</i>, 7450; <i>Congregational</i>, +2600; <i>Wesleyan Methodists</i>, 2250; <i>Primitive +Methodists</i>, 300; <i>Scotch Presbyterian</i>, 600; <i>Plymouth +Brethren</i>, 150; <i>Non-Sectarian</i>, 1200; +<i>Swedenborgians</i>, 1000, =15,550.</p> +<p>The Established Church is, therefore, relatively strong in +Kensington; and when we consider that the whole of this Church +accommodation, with a single exception or two, has been provided +by voluntary effort, and without the slightest pecuniary aid or +benefit from the State, it must be accepted as a striking +evidence of the popularity of that Church.</p> +<p>The principal parish Church, now just completed and about to +be opened at a cost of but little under £40,000, is built +entirely upon the voluntary principle. We have only heard +of one instance in all this mass of property in which a helping +hand has been extended, even by the Bishop of London’s +Fund, and then only to the extent of about £2000. +West London Churchmen have been deemed capable of doing their own +work, and have been left to do it, and certainly they have done +and are doing it.</p> +<p><a name="page73"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 73</span>It is +also to be observed that the different ecclesiastical schools in +the Church, by mere dint of rivalry, have done comparatively +little in this great work. There are three or four +decidedly Ritualistic Churches; two or three High Church; two +Broad Church, which affects doctrine chiefly; and all the others +are really and truly Evangelical Churches, and varying but very +slightly, if any thing, in form and ceremony. Church +extension may, therefore, be regarded as a genuine and earnest +out-come of English protestant Churchmanship, prompted by higher +motives than those connected with Ecclesiastical disputes.</p> +<p>Among the nonconforming bodies, the <span +class="smcap">Baptists</span> are by far the most numerous +here. It is, however, very observable that they do not +appear to base the strength of their cause upon their +denominational views as to Baptism by Immersion; but in every +case except one, and that a very small Church, have what is +called “open communion,” and admit to fellowship +Christian believers of good repute generally, even though they +disagree on that denominational point. They are, therefore, +to be distinguished from the <i>Ana-Baptists</i>, who insist upon +re-baptism before communion; whilst they are equally far removed +from the <i>Particular Baptists</i>, who preach particular +Redemption. The peculiarities of Calvinism are rarely, if +ever, heard from their pulpits. The body, then, that have +obtained in Kensington, it may be of some importance to remember, +are the <i>General Baptists</i>, who are characterized by +liberality of sentiment, both as it regards Church conditions and +doctrinal teaching. The largest of these Churches is that +of Westbourne Grove, under the pastorate of the Rev. W. G. +Lewis.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Congregationalism</span> is not largely +represented in Kensington, and mainly centres in one or two +Churches, viz. that presided over by the Rev. Dr. Stoughton, in +Allen-street, formerly of Hornton-street, and that at Horbury +Chapel, under the Rev. W. Roberts,—the former being the +older and larger Church. This is highly vigorous and +prosperous, and has been progressively so under the now +lengthened ministration of Dr. Stoughton. Aided by the +well-known Catholic sentiments of this minister, Independency, in +the parish of Kensington, has received a breadth of sympathy with +Christian people of other denominations which enables it to +maintain the most friendly relations with all.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Wesleyanism</span> has not hitherto +displayed the popular adaptation here by which it is +characterized in many parts of the country, not excepting the +chief centres of population. Its efforts, however, in this +direction, are yet young, and cannot be expected to have gathered +the strength and influence of age. It finds, moreover, at +least in this part of the metropolis, abler, keener, and more +active rivals than in rural parts, or in most provincial +towns. The Wesleyans, from their <i>connexional</i> +principle, have an immense advantage over other bodies, as it +regards the mere building of places of worship, for which, if +they chose, they need not be in the least dependent upon mere +<i>local</i> effort. If recommended by Conference, a +general subscription for a first-class chapel in Kensington would +be opened in the connexional organs, and closed in a few weeks, +with surplus funds at the bankers, over the amount actually +required for the purpose. This is a wonderful material +facility for any Church to possess, and if the raising of +material fabrics were necessarily signs of real success, then it +is quite certain that no nonconforming body in the land could +compete with the Wesleyans. But in the present condition of +society, and distribution of the Churches and Church influences, +if there is not sufficient <a name="page74"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 74</span>interest in any given locality to +build a Chapel wholly or mainly at its own cost, there is but +little probability of creating a sufficient interest for the +future by simply making it a present from a distance. It +might or it might not succeed; but the probability is that it +will not. One body of Christians cannot be every where, and +there must be some points at which it will be weak.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Scotch Presbyterianism</span> is also +without vigorous expression in Kensington. Always and every +where an exotic Southward, it does not seem greatly to +flourish. It is a mission, established mainly for the +benefit of Scotch residents or travellers, and was never intended +to interfere with our native religious and Ecclesiastical +growths. Yet we are glad to see it among us. It is a +great way of showing how <i>united</i> the <i>United</i> Kingdom +is, and our Scotch brethren, with their northern crispness and +rigidity, ought to be perfectly at home with us.</p> +<p>In touching on <span class="smcap">Romanism</span>, we have it +in this large suburb in all the strength and fascination with +which it has hitherto been imported into the metropolis. +Here the wealth of its richest English adherents and foreign +residents combine with the talent of its foremost men to give it +popular effect. This has been accomplished to a limited +extent only; for the result at present is by no means +commensurate with the efforts put forth. Yet Protestants +may not slumber upon this fact. Romanism here is making a +distinct and anxious bid for popular sympathy and local +influence, and presents a calmly active energy and fertility of +resource which might awaken vigilance if it need not create +alarm. Its preachers are eloquent and earnest, its Churches +and ritual are gorgeous and costly, its music is enchanting, its +monastic orders, its conventual settlements, and all their +attached agencies are quietly and ceaselessly at work, and their +schools, are diligently plied. Just as we go to press, the +foundation stone of a new “Home” is laid at Kensal +New Town, and with it, ground taken up for a large Church. +This is hard by the new Protestant Church of “St. +Andrew’s and St. Philip’s” on the one hand, and +the Baptist Chapel on the other. No stone is being left +unturned; and should Ultramontane projects fail in this part of +the suburbs, it will be a grievous discouragement to it all over +London. It was the promised land marked out for Romanism by +Cardinal Wiseman, and Archbishop Manning is striving to lead the +people up to possess it. Should he ever succeed in a +conspicuous degree, it will be owing as much to Protestant +shortcomings as to his own efforts no doubt; but at present there +is, on this head, but little reason to complain as far as +building of Churches and Chapels is concerned.</p> +<h3>CHURCH BUILDING.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">That</span> we live in a Church-building +age is made manifest in the foregoing pages. Of the +fifty-three Churches and Chapels in Kensington, fifteen have been +erected and opened within the last five years; sixteen others +within ten years; and in all within the past twenty years there +have been no less than forty-three erections. Five Churches +and Chapels are over twenty years of age, three over thirty, and +two have stood for a century,—<a name="page75"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 75</span>and still remain. The old St. +Mary Abbotts has succumbed to the weight of years, and a new and +splendid fabric has just taken its place. A half a million +of money is represented in these structures, by far the larger +half of which has been raised and expected within the last +decade. Whatever the verdict of posterity may be upon these +buildings from an artistic point of view, it will not hesitate to +accord the high merit of distinguished energy and +liberality. As to Architecture, some few of these erections +embody and will hand down to future times examples of the +improved taste of our day; but for the most part they have been +erected under pressure of urgent necessity, arising from the +rapid and overwhelming outflow of population towards the western +suburbs. The question has been all along how places could +be erected with sufficient speed to save new communities from +habitual forgetfulness of the Sabbath and public worship for the +mere want of places in which to assemble. Never has been in +the past, never probably will be in time to come, an extensive +suburban area like this so rapidly covered with habitations of +men and all the concomitants of our social life. So +recently as 1845, when the Church of St. John was erected on the +crest of Notting-hill, the eye ranged from that eminence north +and west only over open fields, and it was thought at the time +that the Church had been placed too far in the country. Yet +St. John’s now stands in the centre as it were of a vast +city, the unbroken lines of which stretch around and away for +miles. St. John’s would never now be thought or +spoken of as “in the fields” any more than St. +Paul’s, Knightsbridge, or St. Mary’s, +Paddington. The same is true of many other Churches first +erected on the border-land; and it is not until we realize the +extraordinary rapidity with which this mighty change has been +wrought, that we can understand the comparative hurry in which +some of the Churches have been built; but in most cases they are +substantial buildings, and offer scope for further decoration and +filling up of the Architect’s original designs as +opportunity offers.</p> +<p>The province and purpose of the Temporary Iron Church has been +most marked in Kensington. There are but few exceptions to +the rule that, as to the later erections Iron has been the +pioneer of stone or brick. It is utilized for the first +formation of districts and sub-parishes, and for the collection +of congregations. The young clergyman settles himself down +to a new locality, puts up the Temporary Church at a small +cost,—in the midst of bricks and lime, heaps, and +scaffolding all around; the houses, however, are soon completed +and occupied, and in two or three years he feels himself strong +enough to turn his attention seriously to a permanent erection, +and in many cases in an incredibly short time the work is +accomplished, and the useful Iron friend is sold or hired out to +some brother minister who wishes to imitate the process in +another place. Of course the Iron Church comes in for its +share of contempt from the fastidious. It is +“dingy-looking,” unattractive in every architectural +respect, and denounced with its so-called +“<i>tin-kettle</i>” bell as a disfigurement to the +neighbourhood, and offensive to the ear. But it does a good +work notwithstanding, and ought to be highly prized and respected +for its work’s sake. There are, moreover, instances +in which some of the objectionable features can be got over, and, +at least, the interior of the Iron Church be made elegant and +inviting. The nicest individual ought to feel pleased with +an interior like that of St. John the Baptist’s Church in +Holland-road; where Mr. Edmeston, the Architect, has displayed a +taste and contrivance which almost impose on one the idea that he +is in a well-built permanent Church <a name="page76"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 76</span>instead of a temporary one. He +had previously exhibited great taste in his treatment of the +interior of St. Peter’s Notting-hill, which is considered +one of the most beautiful in London; and with a far inferior +subject at St. John the Baptist’s has not been wanting to +himself. Indeed, we could scarcely have believed that so +good general effect could have been wrought out between iron +walls. The people at that Church can well be content with +their lot for some little time to come, should it not yet be +convenient to build in a more costly and enduring style.</p> +<p>We are glad to be able to supply in these pages views of a +number of the principal Churches and Chapels, which will give the +reader a better idea of the state of Church Architecture among us +than any pen and ink description without their aid. To +begin with the new parish Church; both the exterior and interior +are seen as reduced for this work from larger drawings, by +permission of the Architect, Mr. G. G. Scott, by Mr. Avery, the +photographer, of the Ladbroke-road. They make beautiful +pictures, and show an edifice which, when all complete, will be +in every way worthy of the Court Suburb. We have also a +capital drawing of the old Church—<i>In +Memoriam</i>—taken expressly for the “Index,” +that it might not be quite lost sight of amidst the superior +splendour of the modern temple. And to complete the series, +Messrs. Hill and Son, of the Euston-road, have enabled us to +introduce a woodcut of the magnificent new organ they are +building for the Church, and whose tones will be heard at the +opening in a few weeks’ time. These illustrations of +themselves would have been sufficient to give unusual interest to +the work; but we are favoured with many more. Kensington +Churches, as a whole, are so fairly and fully illustrated, that +nearly every style of building is seen that has hitherto obtained +among us. St. Peter’s, Onslow-gardens, through the +esteemed favour of the founder and patron, C. J. Freake, Esq., +shows a fine interior as well as neat exterior; and St. +Jude’s, South Kensington, the same—only in the latter +case the spire represented is not yet built. St. +Paul’s, Onslow-square, is a specimen of plain unambitious +gothic, in great measure purposely so, as according with the +order of things instituted there; but partly, also, from the +necessity existing at the time for making haste with the +work. St. Mark’s, Notting-hill, is an example of +another kind, and by the kindness of the Rev. E. K. Kendall, the +Vicar, we are enabled to introduce an excellent engraving. +Mr. Keeling has here displayed professional skill and +freedom,—as also in St. George’s, Campden-hill. +The picturesque effect both in outline and detail is boldly +sought, and successfully obtained; and we have a good view of the +exterior. Mr. Varley’s Tabernacle, as will be seen, +is putting on a very improved countenance, under the hands of +Messrs. Habershon and Pite, and from being utterly devoid of +attraction, will be henceforth recognized as an ornament to the +neighbourhood. The beautiful Church of St. Barnabas, one of +the very best specimens of Ecclesiastical Architecture in the +parish, together with its useful appendage the “Church +House,” are seen by favour of the Rev. Dr. Hessey, who has +kindly supplied the blocks for the purpose. The +“Church House” is capable of being converted at any +convenient time into a building of greater parochial importance; +and, in fact, considering the popularity of the Church in that +immediate neighbourhood under the good influence of Dr. Hessey, +the time may not be far distant.</p> +<p>Through the good offices of Mr. Bridgnell, of Warwick-gardens, +we have an engraving Wesleyan Chapel there. It is the +nearest neighbour of Dr. Hessey’s Church, and <a +name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>one of the +best productions of Mr. W. Pocock, who is a popular Architect in +Wesleyan circles. He has here produced a Chapel, or rather +a Church, which, for architectural expression and cheapness +combined, may compare with any thing we have seen. Nothing +has struck us more in this review of our Churches than the +unaccountable difference in the <i>mere cost</i> of +production. In Kensington we can point to Chapels and +Churches that have cost the promoters nearly as much again as the +Warwick-gardens Wesleyan Chapel cost, and are barely half so +large, commodious, or beautiful. In this matter there +surely must be an open path to improvement. It is painful +even to think that £8000 and £10,000 are expended +upon places inferior in every respect to others that cost about +half the sum. It is good for people who are thinking of +building to take this fact into consideration. If they +desire to have superb structures, and are prepared to pay for +them, let them take care they have full value for their money; if +otherwise, and they have only moderate means, still let them get +as much as their funds can procure.</p> +<h3>CHURCH MUSIC.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> great variety in Church Music +which we have noticed during our tour of the churches naturally +leads us to some remarks upon this subject. We cannot doubt +that great exertions have been, and are still being made, to +secure what is considered by the promoters a becoming performance +of this part of public worship. We have not entered a +church or chapel where singing the praises of God has not formed +a prominent feature of the service, for it so happens that we +have not been able to find a Quakers’ Meeting in all the +parish of Kensington. In some cases the “service of +song” is redundant and all-pervading in the worship, which +may be said to consist almost entirely of singing in one form or +another, <i>i.e.</i> by the minister, the choir, or the +congregation, either in their different parts or together. +In Roman Catholic places one is prepared to expect a +super-abundance of music of a certain kind; but we have found in +at least four English churches in the parish an almost equally +exuberant display. In the majority of cases, however, a +better proportion is maintained in this in its relation to other +parts of Divine Service. In nonconforming congregations +there is clearly a general desire to bring up the standard of +their musical performances to the requirements of the times, and +in several instances this has been accomplished with great +success. We find included in their programme the <i>Te Deum +Laudamus</i>, and sometimes an anthem with the words taken from +Scripture, which, added to the usual hymns in use—sung as +simple chorales in unison by the whole congregation—make a +pleasing variety in the service, and often conduce to the best +devotional effects. The degree of this of course depends +greatly upon the skill of the execution, which again depends upon +the degree of musical knowledge and capacity possessed. In +some cases we observe a tendency to cultivate congregational +singing in harmony, but it does not well succeed, for the +manifest reason that all the congregation are not adequately +trained to <i>part-singing</i>. It thus sometimes happens +that a number of the people persist in unisonal singing to the +best of their ability, whilst the <a name="page78"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 78</span>more educated with their music before +them struggle on for the effect of harmony by rigidly adhering to +their own parts. This creates confusion, and greatly mars +the effect of the whole,—an evil which, we can only hope to +see remedied by a more general diffusion of the whole,—an +evil which we can only hope to see remedied by a more general +diffusion of musical knowledge. If the time has come when +music is to be insisted on as one part of ever child’s +education, the period cannot be far distant when a more perfect +state of things will obtain. We cannot conceive a more +delightful effect upon the mind than that producible by a whole +congregation singing in perfect harmony some of those beautiful +hymns which embody, when merely read, so much of elevating +sentiment. We are compelled, however, to notice that the +majority of the hymn collections we have seen, both in churches +and chapels, contain compositions so inferior to the ideas +themselves which possess the mind of any intelligent worshipper, +that, guided by the words before the eye, it is impossible to +rise to the highest sense of devotion. The conclusion is, +therefore, forced upon us, that any considerable advance in +musical education must be supplemented by a thorough revision of +these collections, or by putting them aside altogether in favour +of others that shall comprise all their beauties, and rigidly +exclude their deformities—the feebleness of sentiment and +expression, the doggerel and frequent lack of good sense. +The age is in want of a master-mind in the important department +of hymn composition and collation for the service of the +sanctuary. If any able writer and compiler should be so +inspired, he might now labour with the greatest advantage to +Christian worship, if he can combine the religious fervour and +enlightenment of some earlier hymnists with the science of the +present times.</p> +<p>It should be laid down as an unalterable rule that the object +of all sacred music intended for the use of the sanctuary is to +enable as many of the congregation as have voice and inclination +to join in the service of holy song. Tested by this +principle the congregational adaptation of music would seem to be +the most, if not the only, suitable method. We would not +say that other forms might not occasionally be employed with +advantage to musical expression, and, perhaps, to the exciting of +religious feeling in the hearer; but <i>choral-singing</i> and +<i>anthems</i> ought not to be adopted as constant and principal +parts of public worship, as is now the case in many +churches. The reasons against this are obvious: it excludes +the people from participating in the devotions, and is apt to +turn them into mere admirers of human art and skill, whilst it +tends to the introduction of a florid style, bordering too +closely on secular music, and not consistent with the solemn +grandeur, the mingling joyousness, and plaintive emotion which +ought ever to attend Christian worship. Some years ago it +was felt, and justly so, that the musical part of public worship +had been too much neglected, and had fallen into disrepute. +A revival to a proper standard of efficiency was necessary, and +in seeking to promote this some have fallen into the other +extreme. In a number of parish and district churches the +choral, that is, cathedral service, is adopted, without any +regard to the fact that this form of song was never designed for +such use, and intended only for cathedral and college +foundations, where the entire body performing it were understood +and expected to have a competent knowledge of the musical +art. Its general application was never contemplated, and, +as far as our observation goes, it cannot be done without +prejudice to other and still more important branches of public +worship. It will be seen that in some churches nearly the +whole of the service is now song, and to such an excess is this +carried, that there is <a name="page79"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 79</span>scarcely any time left for the +sermon. And this is intentionally so; for some clergymen do +not hesitate to say that the sermon is of little consequence, and +that they make no account of it as compared with the other parts +of their service. The minister chants his portions of the +Liturgy from beginning to end in a monotone. The choir with +the people alternately chant the versicles and responses; the +Psalms for the day are chanted. Then there is the service +of the hymns, alternate chanting of the Litany, intoning and +responding to the commandments in song, singing of the Nicene +Creed, the Sanctus, and Gloria in Excelsis, and other parts +permitted to be sung by the rubrics, and, added to all, the +anthem by the choir, which is often of considerable length. +In this kind of service there is scarcely any thing left soberly +to be <i>said</i> which the common people can readily appreciate +and heartily join in. If they are not up to the music they +cannot follow, and if they cannot imbibe the words they have no +profit. The music, too, is often of that kind which bars +their uniting in it intelligently. It would seem proper +that the Psalms should be chanted. Their very name seems to +point out that there can be no objection to this; but the +objection lies against the music to which they are generally +set. The <i>Gregorian</i> and other cognate chants are +adopted because of their ease and simplicity, being within the +compass and ability of every one’s voice; but the sense of +the words, upon the meaning of which the very essence of devotion +depends, is almost totally sacrificed to the music. The +words are slurred over, and often whole sections of verses are +necessarily dropped, so that if what is really sung were put down +on paper no sense whatever could be made of it. Unless +music can be rendered more conservative of the words and sense of +these inspired compositions, it would be better far to read them +alternately, as is done with good and lively effect in many +churches. On what ground the Nicene Creed is chanted +instead of being said, and why the minister monotones the +commandments as well as the people sing the responses to them, is +not easy to comprehend. Notwithstanding the superstitious +belief of the Jewish people, we dare believe that the Ten +Commandments were never given by Moses from Mount Sinai in a +recitative.</p> +<p>It is therefore evident to us that, whilst in some of the +churches the musical standard is slightly too low, both in +quality and decree, and a certain languor results therefrom to +the service, on the other hand true spiritual vigour in the +worship is still more endangered by the opposite extreme to which +we have referred. In a just medium lies all the virtue and +good effect of Church Music. It should neither be so much +as to obscure or invade unduly other parts of public worship and +service, nor be so little as not to assist them. It should +neither be so florid as to dissipate devotional feeling, nor so +dull as to prejudice its cheerfulness.</p> +<h3>THE CHURCH AND POPULATION.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> population of Kensington at the +recent census was ascertained to be 121,100, and we have seen +that the total of accommodation made by all denominations for +public worship is for 49,070 souls, or, in round numbers, +allowing for possible crowding, 50,000. <a +name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 80</span>The +proportion is, therefore, above the average in most parishes; and +although at no given time will the full amount of accommodation +be taken up, yet the average attendance on the Lord’s Day +at the principal services is good. Out of the 50,000 that +might attend, from 35,000 to 40,000 will be found at the morning +service, and from 30,000 to 35,000 at the evening. If we +allow one-half the number in the evening to be of those who +attended in the morning—and experience shows them to be in +larger proportion—we have still the suggestive fact forced +upon us for reflection, that a very great number never attend at +all.</p> +<p>The following table, showing in detail the population of the +several Ecclesiastical divisions of the parish, has been prepared +by order of the Vestry of Kensington, and obligingly sent us by +Mr. G. C. Harding, the Clerk. It will be very useful to +refer to in connexion with the foregoing accounts of the Churches +and Chapels situated in the several wards, parishes, and +districts mentioned.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Summary of the Population of the +Parish of St. Mary Abbotts</i>, <i>Kensington</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">THE ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISIONS AND +WARDS.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><i>Ecclesiastical +Division</i>.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Separate<br /> +Families</p> +</td> +<td><p>Inhabited<br /> +Houses.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Empty.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Building.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Males.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Females.</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Total</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="8"><p style="text-align: center"><i>The Ward of</i> +<span class="smcap">St. Mary Abbotts</span>, <span +class="smcap">Kensington</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Mary Abbotts</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,067</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,088</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">93</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">24</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,319</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10,377</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16,696</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Barnabas</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">968</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">808</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">59</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">28</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,666</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,498</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5,164</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Philip</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,226</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,141</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">62</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">77</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,855</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5,168</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9,023</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Stephen</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">337</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">298</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">77</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">81</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">815</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,548</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,353</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Part of St. George</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">753</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">435</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">38</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">47</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,382</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,823</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,205</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7,351</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,770</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">329</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">257</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14,037</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22,414</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">36,451</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="8"><p style="text-align: center"><i>The Ward of</i> +<span class="smcap">Holy Trinity</span>, <span +class="smcap">Brompton</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Holy Trinity</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,537</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,594</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">..</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,428</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,838</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11,266</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Peter</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">86</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">..</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">140</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">251</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">391</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Paul</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">328</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">237</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">51</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">578</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,194</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,772</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Augustine</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">288</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">180</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">27</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">451</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">749</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,200</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Mary</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,627</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,121</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">200</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">73</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,896</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,601</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7,497</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,829</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,218</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">374</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">151</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8,493</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,633</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22,126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="8"><p style="text-align: center"><i>The Ward of</i> +<span class="smcap">St. John</span>, <span class="smcap">Notting +Hill</span>, and <span class="smcap">St. James +Norland</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. John</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,179</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">918</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">49</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,205</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,281</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,486</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. James</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,546</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">853</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">68</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">..</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,910</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,753</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,663</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Part of St. George</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,227</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">538</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,284</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,714</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,998</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Peter</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,293</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,051</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">49</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,576</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,292</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6,868</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>All Saints</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,580</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,361</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">328</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">125</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9,117</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11,630</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20,747</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Mark</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,313</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">800</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">99</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,447</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,380</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5,827</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Clement</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2,648</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,203</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">126</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5,310</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5,624</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10,934</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,786</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7,724</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">723</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">189</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26,849</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">35,674</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">62,523</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="8"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Grand Total of +the Parish of</i> <span class="smcap">St. Mary Abbotts</span>, +<span class="smcap">Kensington</span>, <i>April</i> 2, 1871.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,829</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3,218</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">374</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">151</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8,493</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,633</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22,126</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7,351</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4,770</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">329</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">257</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14,037</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">22,414</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">36,451</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13,786</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7,724</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">723</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">189</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">26,849</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">35,674</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">62,523</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25,966</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15,712</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1,426</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">597</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">49,379</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">71,721</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">121,100</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h3><a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 81</span>ST. +MARY ABBOTTS’ CHURCH.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> new Parish Church has +progressed slowly towards completion; and it is hoped by its +promoters that it may be opened by the first week in May. +The builders, however, have a slight misgiving on this point, and +suspect that Whitsuntide will be here before it is ready to +receive a congregation. On either supposition the time is +near; and it is remarkable that our own “opening,” or +publication of the “Church Index” in the parish, is +exceedingly opportune, as it regards the consecration of the new +edifice. Our readers will be able now to consult our +pictures and letterpress of the Church, at the same time that +they see the original. We must, however, remind them that +the pictorial illustration is more complete than the building +will be for some time to come. The beautiful tower and +spire which give such effect to the exterior in the picture, will +not attract the admiring gaze of the beholder for a year or +two. We hope, however, it may be sooner than some imagine; +for we confess it is painful to us to see a fine edifice like +this waiting a long time for its headpiece and chief +ornament. The project for obtaining stained windows has not +hitherto fully succeeded so far as the public are concerned; but +one window in the north aisle has, we are informed, been arranged +for privately, by a lady as a family memorial, at a cost of not +less than 300<i>l.</i> or 400<i>l.</i> It is considered by +some that the Church is already sufficiently Mediæval and +ornamental, and that without any addition, it will offer as it +now stands too strong a temptation to the Ritualists to covet the +prize for themselves. But during the present Vicar’s +life, it may be deemed safe from the effects of any conceivable +machinations of this kind; and it must be hoped that after that +the strength of Evangelical sentiment will be such in the town, +as to prevent its perversion from its original type of ceremony +and doctrine. For our own part, we hope, at least, yet to +see the east window filled with stained glass of good +Ecclesiastical design; nor need this detract one <i>iota</i> from +the strength of that true Evangelical spirit which we trust, from +the day of the opening, will be for ever enshrined in this +<i>temple</i>. We opine, however, that the extra cost is +the main cause of hesitation on this head. And at this we +are not surprised; for the outlay on the Church as a whole has +been large, and any considerable extra expenditure would have to +be provided for chiefly by those who have already done so +nobly. It is well not to strain matters too far; and if the +building of the tower and the stained windows were both left to +the rising generation to accomplish hereafter, that which has +already attained maturity in Kensington need not be ashamed of +its own work. <a name="citation81"></a><a href="#footnote81" +class="citation">[81]</a></p> +<h3><a name="page82"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 82</span>THE +PAROCHIAL SYSTEM.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following most seasonable +remarks occur in the Annual Pastoral Letter recently issued by +the Rev. Dr. Hessey to his parishioners of St. Barnabas, +Kensington:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“Since I last addressed you in this form our +Bishop has delivered his primary charge, the very watchword of +which is the <span class="smcap">Parochial System</span>. +Convinced as I am of the value of that system to our country, I +rejoice in having my own views on the subject confirmed by so +high an authority. It is in virtue of that system, still by +law established among us, that I have written to you, from year +to year, not merely as the minister of a particular place of +worship to which a certain number of Christians habitually +resort, but as one to whom the care of a certain number of souls +spread over a certain area is actually committed; as one who is +expected to care for rich and poor alike, and to form as it were +a link between them; as one who is responsible ecclesiastically +to the Bishop of the Diocese, but in a far higher sense to the +Divine Head and Pastor of the Church.</p> +<p>“Some distinguished men have thought that the parochial +system has had its day, and ought now to be forgotten. +Every day’s experience, however, tends to prove that such +is not the case; for never has that system shown more vitality +and efficiency than during the last thirty years. To take a +single instance which is familiar to us all: I know not how, +without the parochial system, provision could have been made for +the pastoral care of what is technically called the suburban +village of Kensington. It now contains upwards of 121,000 +souls; and yet rapidly as its population has been increased, +fresh churches have been built for the use of that population, to +which parochial rights and duties have been successively +attached; and each new parish has again been subdivided, as soon +as the necessity has occurred. Such repeated subdivision is +still going forward; and, as you are aware, a Temporary Church, +within the Parish of S. Barnabas, has already a conventional +district attached to it, and waits only to be replaced by a +permanent building in order to have its district legally +assigned. When Mr. Booker commenced the temporary building, +the site selected was part of an open field. It now is +surrounded by houses, which appear to find tenants as fast as +they are built.</p> +<p>“But for the facilities of Subdivision furnished by the +Parochial System which still exists among us, I should find +myself at this day perhaps weighed down with the care of a +population of more than 14,000 souls. Whereas now our +population is such that every inhabitant may know his Pastor if +he will, and the Pastor may know at least each family, if not +each member of his flock.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><span class="smcap">The New Lectionary</span>.—In +treating of this the Doctor says,—</p> +<blockquote><p>“We have thankfully availed ourselves of the +New Table of Lessons, which now forms part of our Church’s +Prayer Book, having been issued on the same authority as the +Prayer Book itself. We have never been among those who wish +to see the Prayer Book itself revised, and we rejoice to find +that in such divided and controversial times as these, that work +is not likely to be taken in hand. But in regard to the +reading of the Scriptures <a name="page83"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 83</span>in Church, the case is wholly +different. At the time of the Reformation, the Bible had +been so long kept back from the people, that it was most +desirable that the whole of it should be brought within their +reach. And in an age when but few persons could read and +still fewer possessed copies of the Scriptures, there was no +better way of making God’s Word known, than the frequent +and public reading of the whole of it in the Church. This +was accordingly done, and hence the Table of Lessons contained +nearly the whole Bible, with the exception of certain portions of +unfulfilled Prophecy, which in the excited state of the public +mind were liable to be misunderstood. The case, however, is +different now. Those who worship in the Church are, for the +most part, able and willing to read the Bible also at home, and +are not likely to be misled by the visions either of Ezekiel or +St. John. These Books are therefore read among the rest, +and the Lessons in general are so selected as to be more +appropriate in subject to the days on which they are read; and +from their brevity more likely to be retained in memory. +The Old Table of Lessons provided Lessons only for Morning and +Evening Prayer, but it is now found that not a few persons attend +both an Afternoon and an Evening Service; it has therefore been +arranged that there should be two sets of Evening Lessons for +every Sunday, one of which may be used in the afternoon, and the +other in the evening. There are also many persons, +especially among the poor, who are able to attend but one Service +on Sunday, and that an Evening Service. Formerly they could +hear no second Lesson except those from the Epistles; but now +they hear the Gospels alternately with the Epistles; for in the +former half of the year the Gospels are read in the morning, the +Epistles in the evening; while in the latter half this +arrangement is reversed. Much has been said about the +difficulty of finding the proper Lessons, and the necessity of +purchasing new Prayer Books. There is, I believe, no such +necessity. A few days will make the new arrangement as +familiar as the old, and a copy of the new Calendar and Table of +Lessons, to be fastened in any Prayer Book or Bible, may be +purchased at any shop for one halfpenny, having been printed by +authority at the smallest possible price. I would hope that +none will omit to provide themselves with such a Table of +Lessons, and I think that in the use of it they will find great +advantage. And let me here suggest that the advantage will +be far greater to those who attend the daily services than to +those who are able to attend on Sundays only. Let me +therefore suggest to these last that if they wish to study their +Bible systematically, the New Table of Lessons will form an +excellent guide for the reading of the Holy Book at +home.”</p> +</blockquote> +<h2><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +84</span>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> +<h3>BRYCESON BROTHERS & CO.,<br /> +Organ Builders,<br /> +STANHOPE STREET, EUSTON ROAD,<br /> +LONDON, N.W.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">ESTABLISHED 1796.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">SCUDAMORE and MEDIÆVAL ORGANS +ready for Erection<br /> +from £45 to £155.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ALSO A LARGE +STOCK OF</span><br /> +SECOND-HAND ORGANS ALWAYS ON HAND.<br /> +<i>Printed Lists forwarded</i>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">PRIZE MEDALS, LONDON AND PARIS.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">PATENTEES OF THE ELECTRIC +ORGAN.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>THE ST. JAMES’ MAGAZINE<br /> +AND UNITED EMPIRE REVIEW.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> importance of preserving the +Unity of the Empire having now become a practical issue as one of +the questions of the day, it is proposed by the Proprietors of +the <span class="smcap">St. James’ Magazine and United +Empire Review</span> to devote a portion of its pages to a +subject that is interesting alike to the Mother Country and to +her wide-spread Colonial Empire.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">London</span>: +<span class="smcap">Sampson Low</span>, <span +class="smcap">Marston</span>, <span class="smcap">Low</span>, +<span class="smcap">And Searle</span>, 188, <span +class="smcap">Fleet Street</span>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center">AGENTS:</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Melbourne</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>Robert Mackay.</p> +</td> +<td><p><i>Montreal</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>Dawson Brothers.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Adelaide</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>E. S. Wigg & Son.</p> +</td> +<td><p><i>Toronto</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>Copp, Clark, & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Tasmania</i>—</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><i>St. John’s</i>, <i>Newfoundland</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>J. F. Chisholm</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> <i>Hobart Town</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>J. Walch & Sons.</p> +</td> +<td><p><i>Sydney</i>, <i>New South Wales</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>C. T. Sandon.</p> +<p>James Reading & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> <i>Launceston</i></p> +</td> +<td><p>Walch Brothers & Birchall.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +85</span>FINISHING ESTABLISHMENT FOR YOUNG LADIES,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BOSTON HOUSE COLLEGE,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">CHISWICK, MIDDLESEX, W.</span></h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>This College is conducted by MISS CATCHPOLE, assisted by +Professors and Teachers of talent and eminence.</p> +<p>The moral training and health of the Pupils receive the most +careful attention. The Gardens are spacious, and afford +every facility for out-door exercise.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">TERMS +REASONABLE.</span></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>MISS FAULKNER’S PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG +GENTLEMEN,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">1, MARKHAM SQUARE, KING’S ROAD, +CHELSEA.</span></h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Little Boys between the ages of +Four and Eleven Years are received as Boarders or Day Scholars, +and are carefully instructed in <b>The Holy Scriptures</b>; the +<b>English</b>, <b>French</b>, and <b>Latin Languages</b>; +<b>Writing</b> and <b>Arithmetic</b>, <b>Drawing</b>, +<b>Geography</b>, and <b>History</b>, on the following +Terms:—</p> +<p>For Day Pupils, 8 Guineas; for Day Boarders, 16 Guineas; for +Weekly Boarders, 25 Guineas; for Yearly Boarders, 30 Guineas; Day +Pupils under Six Years of Age, 4 Guineas, per annum. <span +class="smcap">Music</span>, 1 Guinea per Quarter.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">The Hours of Attendance +are—<i>Morning</i>, 9.30 to 12.30. <i>Afternoon</i>, +2.15 to 4.30.</p> +<p>The Boarders being limited to Six are offered many of the +comforts of home with the benefit of the instruction in Classes +with the Day Pupils.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>It is requested that the payment +be punctually made at each Quarter</i>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><span class="GutSmall">NOTTING HILL AND BAYSWATER</span><br +/> +PROPRIETARY SCHOOL<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">(LIMITED),</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">NORLAND SQUARE, NOTTING HILL.</span></h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Head Master—Rev. P. E. +MONKHOUSE, M.A.,<br /> +Late Head Master of the Lower School, Rossall; late<br /> +Scholar of Merton College, and Exhibitioner of<br /> +Lincoln College, Oxford.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">A full and efficient staff of +Assistant Masters.</p> +<p>This School was established in 1866 “to provide on +moderate terms, a sound religious, classical, and mercantile +education of the highest order, on the principles of the Church +of England; but pupils whose parents object to the Church +Catechism shall not be required to learn it.” Vide +Memorandum of Association.</p> +<p>In the CLASSICAL Department pupils are prepared for the +Universities, and for the Oxford and Cambridge Local +Examinations.</p> +<p>In the MODERN Department for the Army, Navy, and Civil +Service, and for Commercial and Mercantile pursuits.</p> +<p>The School being Proprietary the masters have no mental +anxiety as to pecuniary matters, and are thus enabled to give +their undivided attention to the education of the pupils. +The Directors also call attention to the large, airy, well +ventilated room, so essential to the health of the pupils, the +School Hall being 75 feet in length by 30 wide and 41 feet in +height. The covered and open Play Ground is 90 feet by +60.</p> +<p>Boarders are received by the Head Master and Resident +Manager.</p> +<p>Terms and all further information may be obtained of Dr. J. E. +Carpenter, Secretary, 53, Norland Square, Notting Hill.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">EDUCATION.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h3>Notting Hill Collegiate School,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">3, NORLAND PLACE, NOTTING HILL, +W.</span></h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Head Master—Rev. C. R. +GORDON, D.D.,<br /> +Incumbent of St. Mary’s, Park Street, Grosvenor Square,<br +/> +W. (late Head Master of the Notting Hill Proprietary<br /> +School), assisted by</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Rev. W. FULFORD, M.A.; G. W. +LAWRANCE, Esq.;<br /> +<span class="smcap">C. Smith</span>, Esq.; Dr. <span +class="smcap">Fischel</span>; J. <span +class="smcap">Denver</span>, Esq.;<br /> +Dr. S. <span class="smcap">Austen Pearce</span>; Mr. <span +class="smcap">Barnham</span>.</p> +<p>This School comprises Three Departments: Classical, Modern, +and Preparatory. In the first of these, pupils are prepared +for the Universities and Public Schools. The Modern School +will train for the various Examinations of the Civil Service and +for Mercantile pursuits; and the Preparatory for the reception of +little boys to qualify for either of the other schools.</p> +<p>Boarders are received by nearly all the Masters, and the +School Year is divided into three terms.</p> +<p>The Sons of Gentlemen only are now admitted, and early +application ought to be made, as the number is limited.</p> +<p>All applications to be made to the Head Master, No. 3, Norland +Place, Notting Hill, W.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">EDUCATION.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h3>ST. ANN’S COLLEGE,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ROYAL CRESCENT, NOTTING HILL, +W.</span></h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">For</span> +PARTICULARS ADDRESS <span class="smcap">the</span> +PRINCIPALS.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>WILLIAM SHARPE,<br /> +STATIONER, BOOKSELLER, AND NEWSAGENT,<br /> +98, KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, W.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>The Cheapest House in Notting +Hill for all kinds of Plain and Fancy Stationery</b>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">An excellent Cream-laid Note Paper, +Five Quires for One Shilling.<br /> +Good Cream-laid Envelopes, Sixpence per Hundred.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>All the Daily and Weekly +Newspapers, and Weekly and Monthly Periodicals, regularly and +punctually supplied</b>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“TIMES” LENT TO +READ.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Advertisements inserted</i>; +<i>and any Goods not in Stock obtained to Order on the Shortest +Possible Notice</i>.</p> +<h3><a name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>S. M. +& A. WARREN,<br /> +Booksellers, Stationers,<br /> +MUSICSELLERS, AND NEWSAGENTS.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THE USUAL +DISCOUNT ALLOWED OFF BOOKS.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Heraldic Die-Sinkers and +Engravers.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THE LIBRARY +AND POST-OFFICE.</span></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DEPOT OF THE +SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.</span></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">APPOINTED AGENTS FOR THE +INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION TICKETS,<br /> +ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND</span><br /> +CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>1, Edwardes Terrace, Kensington, +W.</b></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>WADE & SON,<br /> +BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, AND NEWSAGENTS;</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Bookbinding, Printing;</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>25 and 98, HIGH STREET, +KENSINGTON.</b></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">CIRCULATING LIBRARY.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="GutSmall">ESTABLISHED +1791.</span></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>R. S. SPALDING,<br /> +Bookseller, Printer, Binder, Stationer, and Newspaper Agent,<br +/> +NOTTING HILL, W.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">PERIODICAL +PUBLICATIONS REGULARLY SUPPLIED.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Engraving and Printing neatly +executed.</p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL +BINDING.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span class="GutSmall">A CIRCULATING +LIBRARY.</span></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>W. MEADOWS,<br /> +Stationer, Bookseller, Bookbinder, Printer, Engraver, +Die-Sinker,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ILLUMINATOR AND EMBOSSER,</span><br /> +8, FULHAM ROAD, BROMPTON.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>Post Office, Money Order Office, Savings’ Bank, and +Telegraphic Office.</p> +<p><i>Newspapers & Periodicals regularly supplied</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>A large assortment of Bibles +& Church Services always in Stock</i>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>J. W. DODD,<br /> +Bookseller, Printer, Bookbinder, School and General Stationer, +Newspaper and Advertising Office. All New Music half +price.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Bibles, Prayers, New Church +Services, Hymn Books for all the Churches and Chapels in the +Neighbourhood.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Advertisements of Births</i>, +<i>Marriages</i>, <i>Deaths</i>, <i>&c.</i>, <i>inserted in +the</i> “<i>Times</i>,” <i>and all other +Papers</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">“Times” and all other +London Papers to be had by 7 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>; a +large supply kept on sale. Special “Standard” +every evening.<br /> +Discount allowed off Books <i>for Cash</i>. Pianofortes +Tuned by an Experienced Tuner.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">270, FULHAM ROAD, SOUTH KENSINGTON +(Two doors South of Redcliffe Gardens).</p> +<h3><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +87</span>BALFERN BROS. & CO.<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">(LIMITED,)</span></h3> +<p style="text-align: center">French Dyers, Finishers, Cleaners, +Bleachers, Hot-Pressers, &c.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>SPRING VALE WORKS, HAMMERSMITH, +W.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p87b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Spring Vale Works, Hammersmith" +title= +"Spring Vale Works, Hammersmith" +src="images/p87s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRANCHES AT</p> +<p style="text-align: center">31, KING STREET WEST, HAMMERSMITH, +W.;<br /> +1, NEWLAND STREET, KENSINGTON, W.;<br /> +112, NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY, S.E.; <span class="smcap">and</span><br +/> +112, HIGH STREET, KINGSLAND, N.E.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Warehouse—28, MONKWELL +STREET, FALCON SQUARE, E.C.</b></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +88</span>GROVES’<br /> +BALSAM OF HOREHOUND</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IS THE MOST +EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR</span></p> +<p>Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, &c., and in support of +that assertion copies of Testimonials will be forwarded on +application.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THIS +PREPARATION IS ONLY MADE BY</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">JOSEPH MOYLE,<br /> +(Late Newby and Dunsford,)<br /> +Successor to E. GROVES, The Golden Key,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>27, BROADWAY, +HAMMERSMITH.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">N.B.—But to be obtained of +all respectable Chemists throughout the kingdom.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ALSO</span><br /> +GLYCION</p> +<p>Is a most useful preparation for allaying irritation caused by +the cold winds of Winter, rendering the skin in Summer white and +pliable.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">1<i>s.</i> and 2<i>s.</i> +6<i>d.</i> per Pot.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>HAMMERSMITH SAUCE.</h3> +<p>To those suffering from Indigestion it cannot be too strongly +recommended, and as a Relish it cannot be surpassed. +1<i>s.</i> per Bottle.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>HAMMERSMITH BOUQUET</h3> +<p>As a Perfume cannot be excelled in fragrance or +durability. In Bottles from 1<i>s.</i> upwards.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>TAYLOR’S<br /> +FAMILY APERIENT PILLS,<br /> +FOR BOTH SEXES.</h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">These</span> Pills are composed of the +choicest Vegetable Aperients, combined in such proportions with +Pure Vegetable bitter as render them both mild and +effective. Being thoroughly Soluble in the Stomach, their +operation is pleasant, no undissolved particles attaching +themselves to the Coats of the Bowels,—irritation, griping +pain, and sickness, are consequently avoided.</p> +<p>They will be found of essential service in every family; their +timely use will not only afford relief in those sudden attacks of +sickness arising from derangement of Stomach, but they will be +found a valuable remedy in severer forms of disease indicated by +<i>Sick Head Ache</i>, <i>Giddiness</i>, <i>Throbbing and Acute +Pains in the different parts of the Head</i>, <i>Singing noise in +the Ears</i>, <i>a sense of Fulness and Weight over the Eyes</i>, +<i>accompanied with Watery Effusion and Dimness of +Sight</i>—<i>Nausea of the Stomach</i>, <i>&c.</i>, +<i>&c.</i></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">DIRECTIONS.</p> +<p>The general dose for a Grown Person is One Pill; but for some +constitutions Two Pills are required. It is best to take +them at bed-time, though they may be taken in the morning (or in +urgent cases at any time of the day); and the dose should be +repeated every other day, two or three times successively; then +rest a few days, and repeat the dose as occasion may require.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">PREPARED +ONLY BY</span><br /> +W. C. TAYLOR,<br /> +Family and Dispensing Chemist,<br /> +(Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society by Examination,)<br /> +MEDICAL HALL,<br /> +Stretheden Terrace, Shepherd’s Bush.<br /> +<i>ESTABLISHED</i> 1856.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>T. P. AVERY</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">HAS MADE +EXTENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR PRODUCING</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PHOTOGRAPHS</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF EVERY +DESCRIPTION.</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Carte de Visite Portraits, from</p> +</td> +<td><p>5s. per doz.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cabinet Portraits, from</p> +</td> +<td><p>10s. ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Photographs of Painting, Statuary, &c., at the same price +as Portraits.</p> +<p>Prices given on application for Photographs of Buildings, +Landscapes, Invalids in their own Drawing Rooms, &c.</p> +<p>Enlarged Copies of Carte de Visite or other Photographs, +finished in Oils, Crayons, or Water Colours, in every variety of +size, style, and price.</p> +<p>Life Size enlargements, in Crayons, from 2 Guineas.</p> +<p>Ditto ditto in Oils or Crayons, from 5 to 10 Guineas.</p> +<p>Coloured Carte de Visites for Lockets, &c., from 2s. +6<i>d.</i> Coloured Ivory Miniatures, from 1 to 5 +Guineas.</p> +<p>T. P. A. having secured the services of able Artists, he can +produce Family Groups from various Carte de Visites, or other +Portraits, and finish them in Oils, &c., in a most +satisfactory manner. Specimen copies sent on +application.</p> +<p>Photographs, Engravings, &c., Framed by workmen kept on +the Premises. Plain and Ornamental Frames of every +description made to order. A Variety of Carte de Visite and +other Frames of various sizes and qualities, always kept in +stock.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">T. P. AVERY, GENERAL +PHOTOGRAPHER,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall"><b>3, LADBROKE GROVE ROAD, NOTTING HILL, +W.</b></span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">NEARLY OPPOSITE THE RAILWAY +STATION.</span></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_i"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +i</span>REDCLIFFE ESTATE,<br /> +SOUTH KENSINGTON <a name="citation0"></a><a href="#footnote0" +class="citation">[0]</a></h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">(</span><span class="GutSmall"><i>SEE PLAN ON +OPPOSITE PAGE</i></span><span class="GutSmall">).</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MESSRS.</span><br /> +CORBETT & M<sup>c</sup>CLYMONT,<br /> +BUILDERS,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BEG TO CALL ATTENTION TO</span><br /> +The Substantial Family Residences<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">THEY HAVE</span><br /> +ERECTED IN REDCLIFFE SQUARE,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">CALLED</span><br /> +“<b>REDCLIFFE MANSIONS</b>,”<br /> +From Drawings supplied by Messrs. G. & H. GODWIN.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>The elevation is carried out after the French style, with +Mansard roofs and polished granite columns to the +entrance-porches.</p> +<p>The fronts of the Houses overlook the Square, which is laid +out as pleasure-grounds for the recreation of the occupants +only.</p> +<p>St. Luke’s Church (see page 20) is being erected in the +western half of Redcliffe Square, and Divine Service is now being +conducted in the temporary Iron Building until St. Luke’s +Church is finished.</p> +<p>This Estate is within four miles of Charing Cross, and has a +subsoil of gravel and sand. It is within a few +minutes’ walk of Gloucester Road, West Brompton, +Earl’s Court, South Kensington, and Chelsea Railway +Stations, which afford ready and rapid communication with all +parts of the City and West End. Omnibuses pass along the +Fulham Road and Richmond Road very frequently. The +steamboat pier is also within 15 minutes’ walk of the +southern end of the Estate.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Messrs. CORBETT & +M<sup>c</sup>CLYMONT<br /> +Have various and Convenient Houses on the Redcliffe Estate, and +also at Surbiton, Surrey,<br /> +to Let at Rents ranging from £50 to £300 per +Annum.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0ab.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Plan of Redcliffe Estate, Kensington" +title= +"Plan of Redcliffe Estate, Kensington" +src="images/p0as.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3><a name="page1_ii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. ii</span>The +West London Hospital</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0bb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"West London Hospital, G. Saunders, Architect" +title= +"West London Hospital, G. Saunders, Architect" +src="images/p0bs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">HAMMERSMITH ROAD, W.<br /> +<b>OPEN DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE RECEPTION OF ACCIDENTS AND URGENT +CASES</b>.</p> +<p><i>The Committee earnestly appeal for Funds to enable them to +throw open the Thirty-eight Beds now unavailable for want of +means</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>April</i>, 1872.<br /> +T. ALEXANDER, <i>Sec</i><sup><i>y</i></sup><i>. and +Sup</i><sup><i>t</i></sup><i>.</i></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_iii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +iii</span>THE FUNERAL ORATION<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF</span><br /> +LOUIS THE GREAT, KING OF FRANCE,<br /> +<span class="smcap">By</span> MASILLON,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">LATE BISHOP OF CLERMONT, +FRANCE.</span></h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Dedicated (by permission) to the +Most Noble the Marquis of Exeter,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BURGHLEY HOUSE, STAMFORD, +NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.</span></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Translated from the Original +French into English</b><br /> +<span class="smcap">By</span> WILLIAM STRATFORD,<br /> +<i>Maître d’École et l’Auteur de +l’Anglaise</i>, <i>Kettering</i>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>London: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, +Paternoster Row, E.C.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Gilt Edges, 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; +Plain, 1<i>s.</i> 3<i>d.</i></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">NEW SERIES. 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NOTES OF THE MONTH, &c., &c.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>London: ADAMS AND FRANCIS, 59, +Fleet Street</b>.</p> +<p style="text-align: +center"><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> And at all +Bookstalls and Railway Stations.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">JUST PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h3>LAW OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Remarks with reference to the +<b>MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACT of 1870</b>. +ADDRESSED TO ALL HUSBANDS AND FATHERS OF FAMILIES.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">By</span> +PHILOFAMILIAS.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">London: HATTON & SON, 22, +Chancery Lane.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Fcap. 8vo. cloth boards, 2<i>s.</i> +6<i>d.</i></p> +<h3>AIDS to CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.</h3> +<p>Being a Brief Manual of Christian Doctrine and Practice. +By the Hon. and Rev. W. H. <span class="smcap">Lyttelton</span>, +M.A., Rector of Hagley.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Now ready, Vol. I.<br /> +<b>THE BAPTISMAL COVENANT</b>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">W. WELLS GARDNER, 2, <span +class="smcap">Paternoster Buildings</span>, <span +class="smcap">London</span>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">New Edition (Fifth), fcap. 8vo, +cloth boards, 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> +<h3>PASTOR in PAROCHIA.</h3> +<p>By the Rev. W. <span class="smcap">Walsham How</span>, M.A., +Hon. Canon of St. Asaph, Rector of Whittington, Shropshire.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">W. WELLS GARDNER, 2, <span +class="smcap">Paternoster Buildings</span>, London.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Price 6<i>d.</i></p> +<h3>THE WITNESS of the CHURCH to CHRIST.</h3> +<p>A Sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace at the +Consecration of the Bishop of Colombo. By the Rev. W. R. +<span class="smcap">Clark</span>, M.A., Prebendary of Wells and +Vicar of Taunton.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">W. WELLS GARDNER, 2, <span +class="smcap">Paternoster Buildings</span>, <span +class="smcap">London</span>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Illustrated, 18mo, cloth boards, +1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> +<h3>MY NEW SUIT, and OTHER STORIES.<br /> +By H. A. F.</h3> +<blockquote><p>“This little book contains a dozen stories, +which, both in the naturalness of the plots and simple terseness +of the narration, are much above the average found in +tale-books.”—<i>Church Bells</i>.</p> +<p>Uniform with the above,</p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FAIRY TALES and FABLES in SHORT +WORDS for YOUNG READERS</b>.<br /> +By Miss <span class="smcap">Crompton</span>.</p> +<blockquote><p>“Excellent in conception and +execution.”—<i>Literary Churchman</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><span class="smcap">By the Author of</span> +“HARRY’S BATTLES,” “SUSIE’S +FLOWERS,” &c.</p> +<p><b>EDITH VERNON’S LIFE-WORK</b>. <span +class="smcap">Third Edition</span>. Crown 8vo, cloth +boards, 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> +<p><b>A LOST PIECE of SILVER</b>. <span +class="smcap">Illustrated</span>. Crown 8vo, cloth boards, +3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> +<p style="text-align: center">W. WELLS GARDNER, 2, <span +class="smcap">Paternoster Buildings</span>, <span +class="smcap">London</span>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_iv"></a><span class="pagenum">p. iv</span>H. +JONES,<br /> +ORGAN BUILDER,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">136, FULHAM ROAD,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">LONDON, S.W.</span></h3> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Every description of Church and +Chapel Organs in Stock, or made to Order.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>SECOND-HAND ORGANS</b><br /> +<i>Of various Sizes for Sale Cheap</i>, <i>having been taken in +exchange</i>.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">SPECIMEN CHURCH ORGAN, WITH THREE +MANUALS,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">MAY BE HEARD DAILY IN</span><br /> +SOUTH GALLERY, ROOM 23,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF</span><br /> +INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1872.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>SOUTH-WEST LONDON PROTESTANT INSTITUTE.</h3> +<p><b>ESTABLISHED A.D. 1857</b> for counteracting the +Proselytizing designs of the Brompton Oratory, and for promoting +Reformational principles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>President</i>, CAPTAIN THE HON. +FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Vice-Presidents</i>, THE EARL OF +BANDON, THE EARL OF DARNLEY, THE EARL OF EFFINGHAM.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Treasurer</i>, J. ROBISON +WRIGHT, Esq., 16, Summer Place, Onslow Square, S.W.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Honorary Superintendent</i>, +Rev. G. W. WELDON, M.A., 4, Vincent Street, Ovington Square.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Secretary</i>, Mr. M. +WALBROOK.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>Office</i>, 5<span +class="smcap">b</span>, SLOANE STREET, S.W.</p> +<p>ORIGIN OF THE INSTITUTE. Was formed in 1857 by a few +friends who were interested in the maintenance of Evangelical +principles, and who were anxious at the same time to combat the +aggressive movements of the Romish Priests connected with the +Brompton Oratory.</p> +<p>OBJECT. To maintain and defend that blessed Gospel which +our Reformers in the 16th Century brought to light, after it had +been obscured by the darkness of Mediæval +superstition. In a word, to warn the incautious, to win +back the lapsed, inform the ignorant, and enlighten those whose +minds are darkened by superstition.</p> +<p>MEANS EMPLOYED. The combined agency of the Press, the +Platform, and the Pulpit, with Classes for Controversial +Divinity. A careful vigilance over the efforts of Romish +emisssaries. The issuing of papers bearing directly on the +truths of the Gospel, as opposed to the innovations of the Church +of Rome.</p> +<p><i>Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received at +the Office</i>, 5<span class="smcap">b</span>, <span +class="smcap">Sloane Street</span>, S.W., <i>by the +Treasurer</i>, <span class="smcap">J. Robison Wright</span>, +Esq.; <i>or the Secretary</i>, Mr. <span class="smcap">M. +Walbrook</span>. <i>Money Orders to be drawn on the Post +Office</i>, 179, Sloane Street. <i>Bankers</i>, <span +class="smcap">The Consolidated Bank</span>, Charing Cross, +S.W.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>T. BULLOCK AND SON,<br /> +Job and Post Masters,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>WHEATSHEAF TAVERN</b>, and the +Yard at the Back of the <b>QUEEN OF ENGLAND</b><br /> +(Late in the Occupation of Mr. DONOVAN).</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BROUGHAMS, LANDAUS, AND OPEN +CARRIAGES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BY THE HOUR, DAY, WEEK, OR +MONTH.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">N.B.—<i>Orders to or from +Railways</i>, <i>Churches</i>, <i>&c.</i>, <i>punctually +attended to</i>.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>The Cheapest, Largest, and Best +Assorted Stock of China, Glass, and Earthenware is</b></p> +<h3>B. GOLDING’S, 44, <span class="smcap">High +Street</span>, <span class="smcap">Notttng Hill</span>,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">NEARLY +OPPOSITE THE NOTTING HILL GATE RAILWAY STATION.</span></p> +<p>Dinner Services, 60 pieces, 15<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, +22<i>s.</i>, and upwards; Dinner Services, 108 pieces, £1 +16<i>s.</i>, £2 10<i>s.</i>, and upwards; Good Cut +Tumblers, per doz., 4<i>s.</i> 3<i>d.</i>; Good Cut Wine Glasses, +per doz., 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; Cut Quart Decanters, per pair, +7<i>s.</i>; Cut Pint Decanters, per pair, 5<i>s.</i>; China +Breakfast Services, 28 pieces, 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; China Tea +Services, 28 pieces, 7<i>s.</i>; Toilet Services, 5<i>s.</i> +6<i>d.</i></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">A GOOD +SELECTION OF BOHEMIAN VASES, LUSTRES, &c.</span><br /> +CHINA, GLASS, AND EARTHENWARE MATCHED, MADE TO PATTERN, OR +REPAIRED.<br /> +<i>Goods’ Lent on Hire</i>, <i>including Rout Seals</i>, +<i>Plate</i>, <i>and Cutlery</i>.<br /> +MODERATOR LAMPS.</p> +<h3><a name="page1_v"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +v</span>Ecclesiastical Embroidery and Tapestry<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">FOR</span><br /> +CHURCH DECORATION AND VESTMENTS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">DESIGNED AND PREPARED FOR +LADIES’ OWN WORKING,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br /> +Rodolphe Helbronner,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">265, REGENT STREET, NEAR THE +POLYTECHNIC,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND</span><br /> +4, PRINCES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">GOLD AND SILVER, FABRICS,<br /> +VELVETS, SILKS, CLOTH, LINEN, LACES, FRINGES,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND EVERY REQUIREMENT FOR</span><br /> +CHURCH NEEDLEWORK,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">CARPETS, AND TEXTILE FABRIQUES.</span></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>THE SUBURBAN PRESS,<br /> +AND LONDON WEST DISTRICT RECORDER.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ESTABLISHED +IN MAY, 1868,</span></p> +<p>to supply a connective view of Local matters and doings +relating to all the principal suburban Parishes and Districts, +with intelligent and useful articles. A great need existed +for such an organ in consequence of the rapid progress of +population, west, north, and south-west of the Metropolis. +All that is done by a Journal specially representing the interest +of the <span class="smcap">City</span>, is done by this as the +press representative of the <span class="smcap">Suburbs</span>, +having at the same time a city and a general connexion. +This Journal contains much Church matter and news.</p> +<p>In Politics it is Conservative; in Religion it is thoroughly +Protestant and catholic. By its design, scope, and +editorial management, it obtains ready acceptance with all +classes.</p> +<p>As an Advertising medium it is therefore most eligible, and +the following scale of charges places its advantages within the +reach of all:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><i>s.</i></p> +</td> +<td><p><i>d.</i></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Situations, Apartments, Houses, Businesses Required or to +Let, 20 words or under</p> +</td> +<td><p>0</p> +</td> +<td><p>9</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Every additional line</p> +</td> +<td><p>0</p> +</td> +<td><p>3</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Marriages, Births, and Deaths</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tradesmen’s Ordinary Announcements, per inch</p> +</td> +<td><p>1</p> +</td> +<td><p>6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Double Column, per inch</p> +</td> +<td><p>2</p> +</td> +<td><p>6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Paragraphs, Company, Legal, Election, and Parochial +Advertisements, per line</p> +</td> +<td><p>0</p> +</td> +<td><p>6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Auctioneers’ Announcements, per line</p> +</td> +<td><p>0</p> +</td> +<td><p>4</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS CAN +BE MADE FOR CONTINUOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Printed and Published every +Saturday morning at the Office</i>, <i>Shepherd’s Bush</i>, +<i>W.</i>, <i>and to be obtained of all Newsagents</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>All communications to be +addressed to the Editor, 22, St. Stephen’s Road, +Shepherd’s Bush, London, W.</b><br /> +<b>Cheques and Orders made payable to WILLIAM PEPPERELL.</b></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_vi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +vi</span>JONES & WILLIS.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0cb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative advertisement for Jones & Willis, Birmingham and +London, Ecclesiastical Furnishers" +title= +"Decorative advertisement for Jones & Willis, Birmingham and +London, Ecclesiastical Furnishers" +src="images/p0cs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>PIANOFORTES.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Hire</b>, <b>Twelve Shillings +per Month</b>, <b>or on Purchase from Two or Three Guineas per +Quarter</b>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">These Instruments cannot be +surpassed for Brilliancy of Tone, <i>Repetition of Touch</i>, +<i>Elegance</i>, and Durability. All have Seven Octaves, +Metallic Plate, and Registered Keys. Pianos Tuned, +Repaired, and Lent on Hire. Single Tuning 3<i>s.</i> +6<i>d.</i>; Yearly, £1 1<i>s.</i></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>THOMAS D. DURRANT</b>, +<b>Pianoforte Manufacturer</b>,<br /> +6 UPPER RAILWAY TERRACE, LADBROKE GROVE, NOTTING HILL, W.<br /> +Manufactory—LINDFIELD, SUSSEX.<br /> +ESTABLISHED 1840.</p> +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>ROBERT S. STACY.</h3> +<p><i>ESTABLISHED</i> 1829.—<i>ROBERT S. STACY</i>, +<i>Wholesale</i>, <i>Retail</i>, <i>and Manufacturing +Stationer</i>, General Printer, Engraver, Lithographer, and +Bookseller, 257, Euston Road, London, N.W.</p> +<p>Sample Packets of Writing Paper and Envelopes sent post free +on receipt of Two Stamps.—Ledgers, Cash, Journal, Day, +Order, Memorandum, and Pocket Books of every variety.</p> +<p>Every description of School Stationary and +Materials.—Coloured and Fancy Paper of every +description.—Importer of Foreign Fancy +Goods.—Numerical Printing, Perforating, and Binding for the +Trade.—Catalogues on application post free.</p> +<p>The Country Trade and Schools liberally treated. Orders +by post, accompanied by P. O. O., payable at Gower Street, above +20<i>s.</i>, executed promptly, and carriage free to any Railway +Station. Cheques crossed “City Bank.”</p> +<p>ROBERT S. STACY, Manufacturing Stationer, 257, Euston Road +(between Gower Street Station and Tottenham Court Road.)</p> +<h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2> +<p><a name="footnote0"></a><a href="#citation0" +class="footnote">[0]</a> This advertisement and those +following come at the front of the published book, but have been +moved to the end to make the eBook more readable.—DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote21"></a><a href="#citation21" +class="footnote">[21]</a> Mr. Wesley’s Journal +reveals, as follows, his presence in Kensington twice; but says +nothing about the <i>preaching</i>, except his discourse to the +smith and his servant. But the fact of his being +subsequently there and lingering in the Gardens would seem to +argue that he went there on preaching missions:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“Monday, August 22, 1743.—Passing +through Kensington found my mare had lost a shoe. This gave +me an opportunity of talking closely for near half an hour both +to the smith and his servant.”</p> +<p>“Saturday, July 6, 1754.—I spent two hours in the +Gardens at Kensington. They are just fit for a king, far +more grand than pleasant; and yet nothing so grand as many parts +of the Peak in Derbyshire.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="footnote81"></a><a href="#citation81" +class="footnote">[81]</a> Since writing the above the new +Church has been consecrated. The works having been pushed +forward, it was in a sufficient state of preparation by the 14th +of May, on which day the Lord Bishop of London consecrated the +edifice, just three years after the old Church had been +closed. A large and influential assembly gathered within +the walls of the new building, comprising many people of various +denominations. To these the Right Rev. Prelate discoursed +on Christian unity, in a truly Catholic spirit and manner; and +after the sermon the offertory taken by collection from pew to +pew amounted to £358 7<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i> Of this +amount £196 10<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> was in paper; £61 +in sovereigns; £38 10<i>s.</i> in half-sovereigns; +£62 6<i>s.</i> 3<i>d.</i> in silver, and sevenpence in +copper.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHURCH INDEX***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 41048-h.htm or 41048-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/1/0/4/41048 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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