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Title: The Religious Life of London

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Release Date: June 16, 2010 [eBook #32844]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDON***

Transcribed from the 1870 Tinsley Brothers edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org.

THE
RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDON.

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BY
J. EWING RITCHIE,
AUTHOR OF "BRITISH SENATORS," "THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON," ETC.

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"'Tis Nature's law
That none, the meanest of created things,
Of form created the most vile and brute,
The dullest or most noxious, should exist
Divorced from good."

WORDSWORTH.

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LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1870.

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LONDON:
SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., CHANDOS STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

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TO
SAMUEL MORLEY, ESQ., M.P.
TO WHOSE UNEXAMPLED ACTIVITY AND MUNIFICENCE
(BY NO MEANS CONFINED WITHIN HIS OWN DENOMINATION)
MUCH OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDON IS DUE,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
THE AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTION.

Man is undoubtedly a religious animal. In England at any rate the remark
holds good. No one who ignores the religious element in our history can
rightly understand what England was, or how she came to be what she is.
The fuller is our knowledge, the wider our field of investigat